Many companies using Microsoft System Management Server 2003 believe that they have a complete Software Asset Management solution. The correct answer would be – that SMS 2003 does a brilliant job collecting inventory and metering data.

What SMS 2003 does not do is managing your licenses, with the LicenseWatch SMS Option it will.

For a company which have already implemented Microsoft System Management Server 2003 it can be hard to find an argument installing and additional agent for collecting inventory data.

No additional agents necessary using LicenseWatch SMS Option, but you will have complete compliance reporting.

LicenseWatch SMS Option is for organizations already running or in the future migrating to Microsoft System Management Server 2003. Organizations which are already using SMS 2003 for distribution purpose will benefit from using one agent, with the option of running the much smaller LicenseWatch agent on desktops with low bandwidth and without the SMS agent. (LicenseWatch agents have the smallest footprint among any client/server based Software Asset Management solutions *).

In other words LicenseWatch SMS Option has an architecture supporting multi agents running simultaneously. Organizations using LicenseWatch have the ability to migrate from the architecture based on LicenseWatch agents to Microsoft System Management Server agents. Since LicenseWatch is 100% transparent in regards to the agent architecture which collects data, the migrations can be done in minutes.

LicenseWatch SMS Option consists of the LicenseWatch Framework and five feature rich modules. The powerful customization will fit precisely to the company’s needs, which does not have to compromise with existing work processes or technology.

LicenseWatch Framework
LicenseWatch Software License Manager
LicenseWatch Metering Passive
LicenseWatch Integration for Active Directory
LicenseWatch Advanced IT Asset Management
LicenseWatch Notification

All software and hardware data from the SMS SQL Server are replicated to the LicenseWatch SQL Server. Software administrators will from the LicenseWatch console be able to control any of the data collected from SMS. LicenseWatch SMS Option functionality includes:

• Industry leading compliance reporting on any organisational level.
• Software metering analysis.
• Most advanced software registration on the market.
• Hardware assets replicated directly from SMS 2003 Server.
• LicenseWatch Advanced IT Asset Management for other devices – printers, monitors, mobile phones, other handheld devices, switches, routers and all other IT assets.
• Fully integrated with Active Directory see also LicenseWatch integration for Active Directory.
• Advanced alarm functionality with LicenseWatch Notification.