{"id":24391,"date":"2019-10-28T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/resources\/bringing-on-demand-customizable-business-intelligence-to-software-asset-management\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:31:49","slug":"bringing-on-demand-customizable-business-intelligence-to-software-asset-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/en-gb\/resources\/bringing-on-demand-customizable-business-intelligence-to-software-asset-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing On Demand, Customizable Business Intelligence to Software Asset Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><p>In the ever changing and evolving Software Asset Management (SAM) landscape, it\u2019s important to keep up with the requirements of customers who require a whole breadth of different reporting abilities to support their IT related teams. But how is this always possible when you need to provide a small piece of the pie to everyone? And, how do we ensure that each piece is completely relevant to them?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The answer to this is: Business Intelligence reporting.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8968\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8968\" class=\"wp-image-8968\" src=\"https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Licenses-Purchased.jpg\" alt=\"LD Portal: Licenses Purchased\" width=\"400\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Licenses-Purchased.jpg 1918w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Licenses-Purchased-800x357.jpg 800w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Licenses-Purchased-1200x535.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Licenses-Purchased-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Licenses-Purchased-1536x685.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Licenses-Purchased-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LD Portal: Licenses Purchased<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having worked with thousands of organizations and individual Software Asset Managers we know that creating reports for stakeholders outside of the SAM team \u2013 from IT colleagues, to the finance department, to the C-suite \u2013 can be time consuming and repetitive.<\/p>\n<p>However, with a little upfront effort and the right technology, it\u2019s possible to create a report, or standard view, which you can deliver to your end users or executives to provide relevant information of incredible depth based on some key raw data extracts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8960\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8960\" class=\"wp-image-8960\" src=\"https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/License-Entitlement.jpg\" alt=\"LD Portal: License Entitlement\" width=\"400\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/License-Entitlement.jpg 1911w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/License-Entitlement-800x357.jpg 800w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/License-Entitlement-1200x535.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/License-Entitlement-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/License-Entitlement-1536x685.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/License-Entitlement-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LD Portal: License Entitlement<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Business intelligence through SAM technology<\/h2>\n<p>This technology is by no means new, especially to License Dashboard with its existing set of business intelligence views but has not \u2013 as of yet \u2013 been realized to its full potential. And by full potential, I mean allowing a user to create a set of their very own business intelligence reports.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing the latest in Qlik technology, this is well on its way to becoming a possibility for License Dashboard customers who use <a href=\"https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/en-gb\/products\/\">License Dashboard Portal<\/a> (LDP) 3.0 as their SAM reporting tool. LDP 3.0 allows a customer to not only create their own dashboards, with all the business intelligence graphs, KPIs and other fantastic imagery, but also utilize the existing experience of a whole team of software licensing professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Achieving buy-in from digital stakeholders in various departments of an organization is key for a Software Asset Manager to be able to operate effectively. After all, it is these people who the SAM team will be relying upon to make the changes they recommend in order to achieve the cost savings and compliance risk reductions that are made available by an effective SAM program. Providing a personalized, intuitive, on-demand and real time business intelligence portal to each of these stakeholders helps to demonstrate the wealth of opportunity and data made available thanks to the work of the SAM team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8963\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8963\" class=\"wp-image-8963\" src=\"https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Virtual-devices.jpg\" alt=\"LD Portal: Virtual Devices\" width=\"400\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Virtual-devices.jpg 1909w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Virtual-devices-800x358.jpg 800w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Virtual-devices-1200x537.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Virtual-devices-768x344.jpg 768w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Virtual-devices-1536x688.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/licensedashboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Virtual-devices-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LD Portal: Virtual Devices<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At first glance, it\u2019s clear that LDP 3.0 is going to be game changing when it comes to Software Asset Management. Even with just a little time investment, it\u2019s possible to come up with a specific and relevant \u201cstory\u201d to be delivered to different levels of a customer\u2019s organization.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine being able to deliver reporting to your software and hardware professionals, containing all the relevant information that they require \u2013 whether reporting information on a hardware refresh, or supporting an existing metering policy \u2013 and at the same time delivering an executive report to the very highest levels of your organization. All using a web browser.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>License Dashboard Portal 3.0 will be available soon to all License Dashboard customers and partners.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bring intuitive IT data to your stakeholders with LD Portal","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":24170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-and-service-updates-en-gb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Customisable Business Intelligence to Software Asset Management<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"License Dashboard Portal 3.0 utilizes the latest in 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