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a licensing or compliance audit is a check by a vendor that you have enough licenses to cover your usage
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a collection of software products covered by a single license that has an executable for the primary product as well as the supporting products; compare with suite
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a distinct group within your organization; you can use business units to help you to target your investigations
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Client Access License - a license that gives a user the right to access the services of a server
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an automated, cloud-based asset discovery tool that is supplied with License Optimizer
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a library of available software titles, maintained by Ivanti, that is used to match against your own software inventory and license data to identify specific software titles
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the allowed use of a license for an earlier version of a product
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see Definitive Software Library
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a document created by a licensing expert that describes the difference between your entitlements (the licenses you have) and your deployments (the software you have installed)
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Effective License Position
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the right you have to use a particular piece of software or service, typically in the form of a license
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an initial comparison of your entitlements with your usage
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the hardware and software items you have in your IT estate
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see Data Services
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the terms and conditions that apply to your use of a piece of software or a service
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matching unrecognized phrases in the software titles mentioned in your licenses to a product in the Definitive Software Library
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see Effective License Position
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the means by which a license is measured as being used. For example, Per Install or Per User.
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document issued by Microsoft with a detailed breakdown of your organization's license entitlement for Microsoft software products
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see Microsoft License Statement
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some licenses are associated with a named user, rather than an installation
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an item of hardware or a virtual machine that is running an operating system
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Operating System Instance - an item of hardware or a virtual machine that is running an operating system
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the use of a license that is allowed for a different version or product, for example as part of a bundle, suite, downgrade, or upgrade
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Processor Value Unit - the method used by IBM to differentiate software licensing on distributed processor technologies
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matching a software title in your system to a specific entry in the Definitive Software Library
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the mechanism by which License Optimizer's rules engine intelligently assigns licenses to software to give you the optimal license position
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Stock Keeping Unit - a unique identifier that vendors may apply to their product licenses
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a volume licensing program from Microsoft
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matching unrecognized phrases in your software titles to a product in the Definitive Software Library
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a collection of software products covered by a single license that has no executable for the primary product, but is just a logical grouping of separate products each with their own executable; compare with bundle
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matching unrecognized phrases in software titles to records in the Definitive Software Library
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United Nations Standard Products and Services Code - a universal classification framework for products and services (https://www.unspsc.org/)
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the allowed use of a license for a later version of a product
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someone who can log in to License Optimizer (compare with Named User)
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a provider of software or licenses