Licenses Consumed and Purchased by Corporate Units Report
- Your enterprise may also allow central purchasing of software licenses, with separate assignment of license entitlements from the central pool to various enterprise groups; and those assignments are not included in the "compliance" columns in this report.
- No individual enterprise group(s) determine your genuine compliance position for a software license, which is a measure of how well your entire enterprise is adhering to the terms of the license (and has legal implications). Therefore, genuine 'compliance' is measured only for your enterprise as a whole. These measures of 'group compliance' are only ways of assessing which corporate units are at risk of breaching their delegated license management responsibilities. In other words, these are purely internal measures of management performance for your use within the enterprise. They can also be helpful in balancing purchases against need when comparing like groups and the licensing resources available to them, and perhaps redistributing excess purchases.
Generating the report
- Navigate to .
- Click Run report to display results for all licenses purchased locally by, and then consumed across, corporate units (including rolled-up totals for 'child' corporate units).
Limiting the report results
To reduce the number of records included in the report, either:
- Click the simple filter button (above the listing at the right end), enter the value to match and if necessary adjust the condition for assessment by clicking the blue filter icon next to the value field.
- Click the advanced filter button to expose the Advanced
filter control, and click that to reveal the advanced filter
dialog. In that dialog:
- Click the + at the top of the list to add a new row.
- Click the column name in that row to expose the list of available columns, and choose one.
- Click the green condition to select a condition to match.
- If required, complete the remaining control (such as providing the value to compare).
Reading the report
The following columns (listed alphabetically) are available in this list. As the report is very wide, you may prefer to hide some columns in the column chooser.
Column name | Description |
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Assigned locally |
The number of license entitlements (or points, depending on license type) that have been purchased elsewhere and assigned directly to this corporate unit. For example, if you have a mixed environment where groups may make some purchases locally, but other purchases are made centrally and then assigned for use within corporate units, this column shows the direct assignments to the corporate unit named in this row. The balance of this report is focused on local purchases and relevant consumption within each corporate unit. |
Compliance cost (currency) |
This shows the result of multiplying the Shortfall/Availability figure by the Cost per right amount, as at the
most recent license consumption calculations.
|
Consumed |
Shows the number of license entitlements
consumed by this group (as at the last compliance calculation, for which the date and time
are shown in the very top right of the page as Reconciled:),
based on inventory imports. Two figures are shown:
|
Consumed locally |
The number of license entitlements consumed directly by this group, as at the last compliance calculation, for which the date and time are shown in the very top right of the page as Reconciled:. |
Corporate unit hierarchical name |
Displays one of the following:
|
Corp unit tree level |
Displays a number explaining at what level (from 1 at the top-most level,
down to the lowest available level) in the corporate unit hierarchy is
the current group (shown in Corporate unit hierarchical
name) shown in this row. The column may show:
|
Cost per right (currency) |
The unit cost of one entitlement (or point, depending on the license
type). This cost is taken from the first available of the following data
points, from highest to lowest priority:
|
Covered installations |
Shows the installation count for a particular application linked to the
specified version of the license referenced in this row of the report.
The column combines:
|
Covered products |
The list of products covered by the license. A product is the basic name of the application, excluding the publisher and references to versions or editions. Visible on the General tab of the application properties. It is editable only for applications with a Source value of Local. |
Covered products and edition |
This starts with the same value as the Covered products column, and then adds the edition details where the product has multiple editions. As many products do not have editions, this value is often identical to the Covered products column. |
Level 1 |
The highest corporate unit in the set represented in this row of the
report. Other possible values for this column are:
|
Level 2 |
The second-highest corporate unit in the set shown in this row of the report. If this row displays a TOTAL for the license (visible in the Level 1 column), this column remains blank. It also remains blank if the Level 1 group for this row has no child corporate unit. |
Level 3 |
The third-highest corporate unit in the set shown in this row of the report. If this row displays a TOTAL for the license (visible in the Level 1 column), this column remains blank. It also remains blank if the Level 2 group for this row has no child corporate unit. |
Level 4 |
The fourth highest corporate unit in the group of (up to) four shown in
this row of the report. If this row displays a
TOTAL for the license (visible in the
Level 1 column), this column remains blank.
It also remains blank if the Level 3 group for
this row has no child corporate unit.
Note: If this fourth-level
corporate unit has further children that have made purchases or
consumed from the license shown in this row, there are additional
rows to show those figures. Check the value of the Path to see
the full hierarchy of corporate units in each row, and see the
Corporate unit hierarchical name value
for the individual corporate unit that is the focus of each
row.
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License cost (currency) |
This is the cost of the license in this row to the enterprise groups in this report. (This may be distinct from the total cost of this license within your enterprise.) This is the calculated result of the overall rolled-up consumption for a group and its descendents (shown in parentheses in the Purchased column), multiplied by the Cost per right displayed in this row. |
License edition |
The edition property of the license. Commonly this echoes the edition of an application attached to the license, but may be used in other ways in your enterprise. Editable in the Identification tab of the license properties. |
License name |
The license name may be:
The Name value is editable in the Identification tab of the license properties. |
License type |
The kind of license, which determines what properties are available for the license, and how compliance is calculated for the license. For details of an individual license type, please see the appropriate entry in the glossary. Editable in the License type field in the Identification tab of the license properties. |
License version |
The version assigned to the license. This may be tracking versions of a linked application, or may an independent value. The license Version is editable in the Identification tab of the license properties. |
Local compliance (currency) |
This shows the result of multiplying the Local
shortfall/availability figure by the Cost per
right amount, as at the most recent license consumption
calculations.
|
Local shortfall/availability |
The difference between the Purchased locally value and the Consumed locally value. A positive number means that this individual corporate unit
has surplus entitlements, and a negative number means this corporate
unit is under-purchased. A zero means that consumption exactly matched
purchases. For points-based licenses, the value is the number of points
rather than entitlements.
Remember: Check for entitlements
that may have been purchased centrally in your enterprise, and then
assigned to the corporate unit to make up for any shortfall. For a
quick check, see the Assigned locally
column.
|
Path |
This column repeats the value of the License name,
followed by the license ID, then a forward slash separator followed by
the corporate unit hierarchy traced in the current row of the report.
Each level of the hierarchy also has a forward slash as separator. The
hierarchy shows as 0-Root alone for those
rows displaying the TOTAL for a license, or
where the license is not linked to any corporate unit
(Unassigned).
Tip: Click
this column header to re-sort and quickly realign the group
hierarchies.
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Publisher |
The name of the publisher of this software, responsible for its development and distribution. For application records that you create manually, Publisher is editable in the General tab of the application properties. For applications supplied through the Application Recognition Library, the Publisher field is not editable. |
Purchased |
Shows the number of software purchases related to this group, in two
figures:
|
Purchased locally |
The number of license entitlements purchased directly by this group (known as a 'local' purchase). |
Rolled up consumed |
The sum of all license entitlements consumed by this corporate unit and its descendants. |
Rolled up purchased |
The sum of all purchases by this corporate unit and its descendants. |
Rolled up used |
The sum of the Used locally values for this corporate unit and its descendants. (For limitations, see Used locally, below.) |
Shortfall/Availability |
Displays the result (according to the last license consumption calculation) of the rolled-up purchases for each group and its descendents (shown in parentheses in the Purchased column), minus the rolled-up consumption for the same group and descendents (in theConsumed column). A positive number means you have surplus entitlements, and a negative number means you are under-purchased. For points-based licenses, the value is the number of points rather than entitlements. |
Used locally |
The number of installed copies of the licensed software that are known to
be actively used within this corporate unit. This value shows a zero if
any of the following is true for the application(s) linked to the
license in this row:
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