Site license analysis - universal or site wide

Site Licenses are comparatively simple to manage, which is one of the reasons many companies opt to purchase site licenses for products that they use. In the case of a site license, you don’t really have to worry about the existence or not of a product on each of the individual machines in your organization – you can simply license that software for use anywhere in your organization (or perhaps a part of that organization).

As such, our site license reports are pretty simple. About the only thing to be aware of with site licenses is that sometimes they are tied to specific site that you manage (and thus do not give you a right to install/use a product enterprise wide). In this case, you may have set the Location field for the Site License when you were recording this as a software asset in your inventory, and this is the main thing that our Site License Summary report will be useful for. This report will show a list of all the products that you hold site licenses for, followed by a summary of all of the installs of that product which are and are not covered by that site license (and the location field for the site license will be used to determine whether or not an installation is covered this or not).

In our report, if you have not set the Location for a Site License software asset that you record then we presume that the site license is enterprise wide (not tied to any one particular site). This is simply an assumption on our part and if you want to build a report that interprets this differently then you certainly can.

Probably recording enterprise wide site licenses will be more interesting if you want to generate Total Cost of Ownership reports, since one hardly needs a specialist software product to manage these licenses. However, if you have various independent sites with software that is sometimes covered by user licenses and sometimes by site licenses then the Site License Summary that we provide may well be of use to you.