The collection and analysis of software license entitlement data in software purchase records is essential to Software Asset Management best practices around compliance analysis and overspend reporting for cost reduction efforts. It is not possible for a software asset manager to complete the full disposition of their duties without comparing software procurement levels to deployment, consumption, […]
Best Practices for correctly configuring Policies to track and manage software usage. K2-KeyServer can conduct many activities to support your organization’s IT management goals. It handles Software Asset Management (SAM), Hardware Asset Management (HAM), Software License Management (SLM), software usage tracking and optimization of computing resources (both software and hardware). K2 also supports IT Procurement […]
We are often asked by new K2 administrators for our recommendations on the system that will host their KeyServer. While there is no optimal system configuration — each KeyServer has different usage patterns and load profiles depending on the number of clients it supports and what products are being tracked — we can give some general guidelines to follow when […]
K2 has included an availability map feature since 7.2. Some of the main functionality is explained in an earlier post about Availability Maps as well as in the Documentation on Availability Maps. With the release of K2 7.4 the basic functionality has been augmented with two new features. Heat Maps The first new feature is […]
Several Bentley products are licensed based on the maximum number of objects that can be created. For example, a WaterCAD license might limit the number of “pipes” allowable within a model. In K2 7.4 you can configure different policies to represent each “pipe” level by using the new Tags feature. This post describes how you can create policies to support […]
To read how to enforce Bentley’s 10-minute Term licensing with K2 7.3, see this earlier post. Earlier this year, Bentley customers started to receive an email from Bentley titled “New Improvements to your Term License”. The essential change was to reduce “the interval used to calculate usage from one hour to ten minutes.” Details at […]
To read how to enforce Bentley’s 10-minute Term licensing with K2 7.4, see this new post. Earlier this year, Bentley customers started to receive an email from Bentley titled “New Improvements to your Term License”. The essential change was to reduce “the interval used to calculate usage from one hour to ten minutes.” Details at the time […]
Adobe has recently made available a June 2016 release of Creative Cloud. We have added corresponding product definitions to PRS. As usual, they will automatically be added to your Products window whenever your KeyServer has discovered a similar footprint on your site. For several years now there has been a new CC release each June. In past […]
One of the reports we have recently added is the Product Optimizations report. This report aims to help you achieve cost savings by pointing out alternatives to expensive suite products. Frequently a comprehensive suite product is purchased and installed on a large number of computers when many of those computers only need a single application […]
K2 is a powerful Hardware Asset Management tool. The KeyAccess client collects many hardware properties which are saved in the Computer Database. However, Computer records also have some additional fields that can be populated individually or in bulk using a choice of methods. This post will show how to populate those fields via a data […]