Software Inventory Manager license analysis
Software Inventory Manager (SIM) recognizes the software installed across your estate, categorizes it, and identifies which products are paid and which are free. This page lists what its license analysis covers.
To get inventory into SIM in the first place, see Getting started with Licenseware SAM.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Software Identification & Pricing Insights | Identifies paid and free software, and can include standard pricing where that pricing is publicly available. |
| License Discovery | Identifies paid licenses — on-premise or subscription-based — as well as open-source software. |
| Software Categorization | Categorizes every product against a trusted software taxonomy, so installs can be standardized by category. Several PDF editors, for example, can be consolidated into one company-wide choice. |
| Licensing Metadata | Licensing information for your products: metrics, license models, pricing and descriptions. |
| Continuous Software Recognition | Unrecognized software is recognized and added to the reports within a few days of the data upload. |
| Advanced License Analysis | Once the estate is rationalized in SIM, deeper analysis is available through the specialized apps for vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe and Red Hat. |
| NEO Integration | Ask NEO, the AI assistant, for a deeper view of your software inventory. |