Computer labs allow universities to provide students with the hardware and software they need to work and learn without incurring the cost of issuing a computer to every single student. Ideally, the goal is to purchase as few computers and as little software as necessary for students to get their work done–no more and no less. But […]
Publishers change the way they sell their software all the time, so the last few years of Adobe licensing changes, though huge, really aren’t that surprising. Unfortunately, however, many colleges and universities, out of shock and/or exasperation, seem to have surrendered, bought a site license for Creative Cloud, and decided that there’s just no point […]
As a primary administrator, you have complete access to all the data collected and stored in your KeyServer, and the authority to configure computer divisions and create and manage software usage policies. This can make you either a data wizard with a seemingly mystical ability to conjure all kinds of usage data from the tips […]
If you’re a KeyServer administrator–or interested in becoming one–and you’re attending LabMan 2018, you’re invited to join us for two training and information sessions we’re hosting this year. One is a pre-conference session on Tuesday, May 22nd, and the other is a break-out session on the 23rd featuring a live demonstration of lab maps in […]
Like many of our clients, Rochester Institute of Technology College of Imaging Arts and Sciences originally purchased their KeyServer many years ago for management of concurrent use software titles like Adobe Creative Suite, and although the KeyServer has been running steadily for the last 20 years, the shift toward cloud has reduced their need for […]
Without a Software Asset Management product monitoring installation and usage of software, comparing them to entitlement counts using the correct metric, it can be nearly impossible to remain in compliance with publishers’ terms and conditions. And although it’s the government’s job to enforce contract law—and it has been particularly aggressive in doing so over the […]
If you watched or took part in our last two KeyServer Fundamentals webinars, by now you should have all the information you need to organize your computer network and manage your software products with properly configured polices. In the next webinar, Reporting Strategies and Objectives, we’re going to talk about making use of the data […]
We’ve heard it a thousand times: “We don’t need SAM anymore because Adobe and Microsoft went to the cloud and we just buy site licenses for everything now.” In other words: “We can’t win.” But in our opinion, now is not the time to surrender and “pay them what they want.” In the age of cloud- and subscription-based […]
If you’re going to effectively track software usage in the age of cloud and subscription licensing models, you need to not only make sure that your hardware is properly organized into appropriate divisions so that you can tie usage to specific locations and groups of users, but you also need to be able to track […]
We’ve heard it a thousand times: “We don’t need SAM anymore because Adobe and Microsoft went to the cloud, license management is built in for this and that, and we just buy site licenses for everything now.” In other words: “We can’t win. The publishers have boxed us into a corner, and Software Asset Management just helps […]