Calculating unassigned SaaS license costs in SaaS Management
Note:This enhancement is available with SaaS Management.
In Flexera SaaS Management’s All SaaS Licenses and SaaS License Usage screens, the number of license seats purchased per SaaS application is reflected in the Licenses Allowed column. The number of licenses or “Unlimited” is pulled from the # of Items Allowed field in the Managed SaaS Applications Licenses tab. In SaaS Management, when a SaaS application has at least one unlimited license term, the entire SaaS application license count summary is considered “Unlimited”.
Is license differentiation supported?
In a Managed SaaS Applications Overview tab, SaaS license cost is calculated in the Application Usage widget for unassigned licenses and for active, inactive, and never active users. When License Differentiation is supported, you can narrow your SaaS license usage and spend to a specific license type. To calculate the potential savings per license type in the application’s License Details tab, enter a number in the # of Items Allowed field.
Annual SaaS licenses costs are calculated as follows.
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Active, inactive, and never active user license costs are calculated only for user-based licenses. |
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Unassigned license costs are calculated for non-user-based licenses, such as per organization or “unlimited” licenses. |
Reclamation opportunities for unassigned licenses
Though your organization may have an unlimited number of seats for a SaaS application, you may want to maximize SaaS license usage by transferring licenses to more active users. For SaaS applications that have the Reclamation integration task enabled, the Managed SaaS Applications Users tab displays the number of Reclamation Opportunities. Note that the number of users and the number of Reclamation Opportunities are updated once on a daily cadence.
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