Discovery & Inventory – you need to find all PCs, servers and other devices that are used to consume software licenses and subscriptions. Ideally, you want to know who’s using what and how they are using it too (especially important for data center software).

Certero delivers unrivalled discovery, inventory and usage tracking capabilities across all platforms and locations.

Publisher Prioritization – based on software discovered, known spend and other factors, you can prioritize what software publishers should be prioritized for compliance and optimization.

With Certero, you can quickly select and focus on the most important software vendors, with specialist modules for publishers with complex licensing schemes.  

License & Entitlements – you need to capture a complete picture of licence entitlement within the tool and understand precisely what these purchases entail, what the agreements entitle you to use and exactly how software can be deployed and accessed.

Getting entitlement data into Certero is easy, using the ‘one-click’ import of common licence entitlement formats, such as a Microsoft Licensing Statement (MLS).

Compliance Engine & Licensing Expertise – Even with the most automated compliance engine that applies vendor-specific intelligence and software recognition to understand your deployed software, how it’s used, how it’s licensed and what you’re entitled to use after reconciling all available upgrade/ downgrade rights to maximum effect. Even then, depending on the vendor you might need a little help from a Certero licensing expert to understand the best ways to eliminate any issues and optimize to gain maximum value.

ELP Reporting – Identifying an Effective License Position and any none-compliance is obviously the critical information vendors are looking for in an audit scenario. Developing and maintaining a dynamic view of compliance through the Certero solution empowers businesses allowing them to address and avoid any potential issues that could otherwise become risks in an audit. As well as avoiding the disruption of having to respond to a vendor invoking an audit clause maintaining a real time effective license position will help to eliminate significant costs from unknowingly, routinely over-licensing.

With all licensing data held within Certero, the required evidence to satisfy a vendor that the ELP is correct is immediately available. If unsure, a Certero Audit Defence service can expertly manage the response for you.