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License Dashboard provides innovative and adaptive solutions that track and manage changing licensing programs to enable organisations to reduce spend on software licenses, save IT professionals vast amounts of time on manual tasks, and reduce the risk of licensing non-compliance.
Agreement Start: 1 January 2019
Agreement End: 31 December 2021
Invoice date: Sites will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which their Licence is signed. In subsequent years they will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of their Licence Start Date.
Licence based on the number of full-time employees (FTEs)
Owner: License Dashboard, (company no 6599902), Bytes House, York Road, Pocklington, York, YO42 1NS
“SAM Agile 3” is the core product, consisting of:
License Manager is a powerful yet easy-to-use platform which allows organisations to accurately manage software licences.
The tool provides advanced licensing automation, speeding up day-to-day tasks for Software Asset Managers and ensuring that complicated license metrics are correctly calculated. License Manager ensures an organisation is receiving the maximum ROI on their software purchases, often saving businesses up to 30% of their software spend.
LICENSE DASHBOARD PORTAL
License Dashboard Portal helps organisations share software usage monitoring information in an intuitive BI application across business departments. You can now optimise the value of data collated and held across the different products within the License Dashboard technology platform. Furthermore, License Dashboard Portal makes your data accessible and meaningful to any business unit/department involved in the SAM process.
Additional products:
WHY LICENSE DASHBOARD
In License Dashboard's words:
"By selecting License Dashboard for these services, you can be confident of receiving best in class SAM resources to deliver a solution that meets your objectives throughout the software asset’s life cycle.
You will benefit from:
We are confident that License Dashboard has the capability, credentials, correct commercial approach and right cultural fit to differentiate ourselves as the partner of choice."
* T1 Vendor = Tier 1 - means large enterprises, with a global footprint; multi-site, multinational corporations with a revenue over $1 billion per annum.
T2 Vendor = Tier 2 - means medium sized organisations, single or multi-site with a revenue of up to $1 billion per annum.
T3 Vendor = Tier 3 - means smaller businesses with a specific niche; e.g. engineering, academic, finance, human resources.
Supplier Web Address
Method of delivery of product
The master copies of media and Licenced Materials will be delivered to the Licenced Site by License Dashboard Limited. Some materials may be supplied electronically. Delivery can be expected in 5 working days from receipt of licence paperwork.
User Documentation/Online Instructions
Full documentation is provided within the download for the application.
Support Services
A “Silver” level of support will be provided to each Licencee, consisting of:
License Dashboard will provide telephone advice and support to the nominated Technical Contact and/or his/her Deputy at Licenced Institutions during normal business hours. License Dashboard support can be contacted at:
Full details of support services can be found on the Supplier’s website at: http://www.licensedashboard.com/forums/
Updates and New Versions
The Licencee is entitled to all updates and new versions that are made generally available to customers.
Updates are: full releases, patches and service packs. There is no defined release cycle and all new releases will be published on the supplier’s forum website at http://www.licensedashboard.com/forums/
Platform Requirements Full details of supported platforms can be found on the Supplier’s website at: http://www.licensedashboard.com/forums/
Training Materials
Training Materials are those provided within the user documentation (see 2 above) contains user guides and training material based on current and previous versions for users to refer to, these can all be downloaded to PDF or viewed online. The "getting started" guide to License Manager is a very good overview document showing screenshots and steps to carry out tasks.
License Dashboard Academy
Also on training, License Dashboard have recently released their brand-new training academy, which is free to all your License Dashboard customers. This on-demand training offers users modules for each workspace within License Manager, recorded by License Dashboard experts. The License Dashboard Training Academy guides users through each workspace with easy to digest, bite-sized modules. At the end of each module they will complete a short assessment and once these are all complete, they can gain a Certified License Manager certification. To sign up, please contact help@chest.ac.uk
Additional Support
License Dashboard have an active community forum where all end users can post technical or licensing questions and share best practice tips with their peers.
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“License Dashboard Portal, is the standout highlight of this product and puts it significantly ahead of many of its competitors.” – AJ Witt, The ITAM Review
License Dashboard is delighted to have had its ITAM toolset appraised for the third time by ITAM Review. Since the first review in 2012, the platform has continuously been developed and has evolved into a comprehensive ITAM solution to meet the growing demands of maturing ITAM roles. License Manager and License Dashboard Portal (LD Portal) enables SAM Managers to become a strategic partner for C-Suite decision-makers. Original article on License Dashboard website, find the article here.
“It is best-in-class and sets a benchmark for other ITAM toolsets.” – AJ Witt, The ITAM Review
Learn more about License Dashboard’s Software Asset Management technology and services with their series of recorded webinars. Topics include licensing management best practice, License Dashboard tool updates and enhancements, SAM ‘How To’ guides and updates on the SAM, ITAM and Software Licensing market.
This includes the webinar from the 24 September, where they looked at how this new offering will help you:
Click on the below snip to watch the webinar from License Dashboard and Phoenix.
The Chest Order, together with the Licence Terms and Conditions, and any exceptions listed below, create a legally binding contract between your institution, organisation or company and the Licensor. Therefore please read the terms and conditions carefully and only submit a Chest Order if its terms and conditions are acceptable to your institution, organisation or company and you have the authority to make the financial commitment shown.
This Site licence* is subject to the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Software.
*An unlimited site licence is defined as a single database for an unlimited number of assets.
Copying of the Software is allowed in accordance with the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Software.
On receipt of a completed Licence, Institutions will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed. For each subsequent year, Institutions will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the licence. Purchase orders and payments for the licence fee must be made to "Jisc". Invoices are payable within 30 calendar days of the date of invoice.
Price is fixed at time of sign-up to the Agreement for the full term of the 3-year licence.
Institutions may, if they wish, pay a single charge to cover their commitment period (3 years).
Chest is an Enterprise of Jisc. All Purchase orders must be made out to Jisc, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, BS1 6NB to cover all charges plus VAT.
All terms contained in a PO are expressly rejected and do not form part of the Licence or vary the Licence terms in any way.
Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
Three years from the chosen licence start date.
At the end of the agreement period sites must remove Dashboard Discovery or the Licence Dashboard Enterprise Edition software, along with any add-ons, from their systems.
| Students | Yes |
| Academic Staff | Yes |
| Non-Academic Staff | Yes |
| Administration and management | Yes |
| Staff home use rights | No |
| Student home use rights | No |
| Installation on Hosted Server | Yes |
Personal licences are not available for this product.
* Sorry, this agreement has expired *
This agreement expired on the 21/09/2020
License Dashboard provides innovative and adaptive solutions that track and manage changing licensing programs to enable organisations to reduce spend on software licenses, save IT professionals ...
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