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Software Asset Management| Device42 Software

SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT

Simplify Software Asset Management Across On-Premises and SaaS

Cut through software complexity. Device42 helps you track on-premises and SaaS licenses, reduce risk, and stay compliant across your entire IT landscape.

From insight to action. Get a unified view of license usage, software spend, and asset exposure to make smarter, faster decisions.
You can easily track applications, aliases, and associated components for better software visibility and control.

Complete Visibility

Take control of your software estate with automated, accurate discovery.

Device42 delivers continuous, accurate discovery of on-premises and SaaS software, giving you a complete and current view of all deployed applications and licenses. Eliminate blind spots, reduce risk, and manage your software estate without manual effort.

Cost Optimization

Cut Waste and Get the Insights Needed to Negotiate Smarter Software Contracts

Identify unused or underutilized licenses, eliminate waste, and negotiate smarter vendor contracts. Device42 gives you the visibility needed to optimize software investments with confidence.

View of discovered vs. remaining software licenses makes it easier to identify usage gaps and optimize license allocations.
Instantly understand your software landscape. Visualizing licenses by vendor helps you pinpoint your biggest investments, simplify vendor management, and identify consolidation opportunities.

License Compliance

Stay Compliant, Avoid Surprises

Minimize the risk of noncompliance and avoid costly fines. Device42 helps you identify expired, unlicensed, and over-licensed software so you can stay audit ready, uncover shadow IT, and improve reporting on license usage across your environment.

Gain Control of Software Usage to Cut Costs, Ensure Compliance, and Secure IT

Device42 gives you full visibility into software usage, helping eliminate shadow IT, reduce costs, ensure compliance, and strengthen security posture.

Find and track all installed on-premises or SaaS software across your environment.

Gain comprehensive discovery of on-premises and SaaS software across all devices, platforms, and operating systems. Automated discovery keeps your software inventory accurate and current, creating a strong foundation for effective license management.

Options for managing software include:
  • Select software as ignored to remove components from the discovery list and exclude them from future scans.
  • Mark software as prohibited to trigger alerts whenever restricted software is detected on the network.
  • Assign software to a suite to group applications together as part of a defined software package.
Comprehensive Inventory Dashboard

Empower IT decisions with enriched software data and key lifecycle insights.

Device42’s EnrichAI® standardizes vendor, OS, and software names while adding key lifecycle details like end-of-life and end-of-support dates from providers such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Oracle. This enriched data optimizes software license management, helping IT teams plan upgrades, ensure compliance, and reduce risk.

Software Enrichment Overview

Track software use and licenses to ensure compliance and optimize allocation.

Monitor your software license entitlements with ease. Know who is using what software, when, and where it is installed to ensure compliance and optimize license allocation.

Options for managing infrastructure software include:
  • User-based licenses assigned to individuals or available as free software.
  • Device or CPU-based licenses counting devices, sockets, cores, or virtual CPUs.
  • Client access licenses tracked per device, per user, or per resource such as servers and mailboxes.
  • Key-based licenses managed by software keys rather than instances.

This flexibility enables IT teams to maintain accurate compliance records across all environments.

License Entitlements Dashboard

Set alerts to monitor licenses and software for compliance and risk control.

Device42 lets you set up alerts to proactively manage software components and their licenses. Receive timely notifications by email for:

  • Pending and current license expirations
  • Detection of prohibited software
  • Software approaching its licensed usage limits based on deployment percentages

Stay informed and in control to reduce risk and maintain compliance effortlessly.

Alerts and Notifications Interface

Visualize and analyze software data with detailed reports and custom dashboards.

Improve software visualization and analysis with detailed reports and customizable dashboards. This provides valuable insights into license data and software usage, enabling informed decision-making and efficient software management.

Reports and Dashboards Interface

Seamless Software Asset Management Across Your IT Ecosystem.

Make Software Asset Management data accessible across your organization with essential integrations:

  • Endpoint management integration to connect with endpoint tools and unify IT Asset Management processes.
  • ITSM and IT operations integration to link software licenses with devices, applications, and other IT assets through a connected Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
  • Data unification with more than 40 out-of-the-box integrations, plus simple import and export options through spreadsheet uploads or RESTful APIs.
Integrations Overview

Frequently Asked Questions

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Does Device42 discover SaaS applications?

Device42 discovers software on Windows, Mac, and Linux across servers and desktops, and integrates with services like Microsoft Active Directory, Google Workspace, and Okta to uncover and track SaaS applications across the enterprise.

This allows you to automatically discover and track software usage across the enterprise, no matter where the applications are provisioned.

How does Device42 help us stay compliant and ready for software audits?

Its agentless discovery gives you an up-to-date inventory of on-premises and SaaS software, ensuring you have an accurate, audit-ready view of your assets to easily prove compliance.

Can Device42 help lower our company's software spending?

Yes. Device42 tracks software entitlements and identifies underused assets, so you can reclaim licenses and avoid unnecessary renewal costs.

How does the Device42 SAM solution improve our organizations security posture?

It detects and alerts on prohibited or end-of-life software, helping you quickly remove vulnerable applications and enforce security policies.

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We have many different license types. How does Device42 handle that?

It supports multiple license models like per-user, CPU, or key-based, providing the flexibility to centralize and accurately manage all your diverse agreements.

How does Device42 improve the accuracy and value of our software inventory data?

Device42 EnrichAI® normalizes inconsistent OS and software names from providers such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Oracle into a single standard entry and enriches them with end of life and support data, giving you a clean inventory that improves compliance, cost control, and proactive risk management.

How can Device42 help me stay on top of software licenses and prohibited applications?

Device42 lets you configure alerts to manage software and licenses. You receive notifications for pending or current expirations, detection of prohibited software, and when usage approaches licensed limits, helping reduce risk and control costs.

Run IT with confidence.®