Glossary

• audit
  a licensing or compliance audit is a check by a vendor that you have enough licenses to cover your usage
• bundle
  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
• business unit
  a distinct group within your organization; you can use business units to help you to target your investigations
• CAL
  Client Access License - a license that gives a user the right to access the services of a server
• Data Services
  an automated, cloud-based asset discovery tool that is supplied with License Optimizer
• Definitive Software Library
  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
• downgrade
  the allowed use of a license for an earlier version of a product
• DSL
  see Definitive Software Library
• Effective License Position
  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)
• ELP
  Effective License Position
• entitlement
  the right you have to use a particular piece of software or service, typically in the form of a license
• estimated license position
  an initial comparison of your entitlements with your usage
• inventory
  the hardware and software items you have in your IT estate
• Ivanti Discovery
  see Data Services
• license
  the terms and conditions that apply to your use of a piece of software or a service
• license matching
  matching unrecognized phrases in the software titles mentioned in your licenses to a product in the Definitive Software Library
• license position
  see Effective License Position
• metric
  the means by which a license is measured as being used. For example, Per Install or Per User.
• Microsoft License Statement
  document issued by Microsoft with a detailed breakdown of your organization's license entitlement for Microsoft software products
• MLS
  see Microsoft License Statement
• Named User
  some licenses are associated with a named user, rather than an installation
• Operating System Instance
  an item of hardware or a virtual machine that is running an operating system
• OSI
  Operating System Instance - an item of hardware or a virtual machine that is running an operating system
• overlap
  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
• PVU
  Processor Value Unit - the method used by IBM to differentiate software licensing on distributed processor technologies
• recognition
  matching a software title in your system to a specific entry in the Definitive Software Library
• reconciliation
  the mechanism by which License Optimizer's rules engine intelligently assigns licenses to software to give you the optimal license position
• SKU
  Stock Keeping Unit - a unique identifier that vendors may apply to their product licenses
• Software Assurance
  a volume licensing program from Microsoft
• software teaching
  matching unrecognized phrases in your software titles to a product in the Definitive Software Library
• suite
  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
• teaching
  matching unrecognized phrases in software titles to records in the Definitive Software Library
• UNSPSC
  United Nations Standard Products and Services Code - a universal classification framework for products and services (https://www.unspsc.org/)
• upgrade
  the allowed use of a license for a later version of a product
• user
  someone who can log in to License Optimizer (compare with Named User)
• vendor
  a provider of software or licenses