Snow License Manager Reviews & Insights

Score8.8 out of 10

34 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Snow License Manager are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Use: Reviewers have consistently praised the software for being simple, easy to navigate, and user-friendly. Many users have appreciated its focus on creating an overview and providing a good user experience.

Comprehensive Tracking Capabilities: Users have found the software valuable for tracking software installations, usage, and licenses accurately. The ability to maintain inventory data and provide a global view of IT assets has been highlighted by multiple reviewers.

Effective Compliance Management: Several users have mentioned that the software excels in helping with compliance reporting, license management, and contract oversight. The auto calculation of compliance, detailed adjustments provided by customer service, and warnings about impending license expiries were particularly noted by customers.

Reviews

19 Reviews

Snow License Manager, a must-have for license management!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 19, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Snow License Manager to monitor our license positions and keep track of obsolete licenses, to search for hardware specifications, to see who is using which hardware and how often applications are being used. It is a major tool for us to discuss the used licenses and the need for end users to use specific licenses.

Pros

Monitor used software
Discover used hardware
Report license compliancy

Cons

Building OS agents via Snow License Manager instead of requesting them via support
Detecting roaming licenses from for instance Flexera

Likelihood to Recommend

It takes a lot of work and communication, but Snow License Manager helps by making end users aware of their software usage and license needs. It also protects the business for license claims because invalid software can be removed as soon as they are being detected. It also helps when software companies do an audit since Snow License Manager supplies reporting accepted bij for instance Microsoft of Adobe.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

Snow License Manager review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 31, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Snow License Manager (SLM) is used as a tool in our Software Asset Management function. It allows us to obtain a compliance position, and report on licenses, installations and users of software on end-user devices and servers. The license intelligence applied with this solution saves great deal of time when handling applications and their licenses, as the correct metrics will nearly always be automatically selected for a specific product. SLM has a wealth of reports that we regularly use, it's also a useful tool for audit against our CMDB, to confirm hardware configurations.

Pros

Reporting
Compliance
Visibility

Cons

Automation for assignment of Microsoft server licences
Organisational structure tool
Power BI front-end to allow reporting for non-Snow users (snr Management)

Likelihood to Recommend

Snow License Manager is an excellent tool, allowing us to provide accurate information where there is a limited scope to the report, e.g., identify who has application X installed. One issue we have (due to the amount of information Snow gathers), is when users request a report with a broad scope. E.g., provide me with all information you have for all applications on all computers. (This is our usual starting point). This report is typically millions of rows.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Snow License Manager Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 8, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Snow Licence Manager supports our business in organising and planning our Support and Agreement Contracts, Inventory Management and Licence Compliance.

Pros

Centralises all our software contracts into one place
Provides insights into potential cost savings for our deployed software via metering data
Provides licence tracking for managing vendor true-ups

Cons

Agent performance dedicated tab
Error log which alerts you directly within SLA rather than going to server logs

Likelihood to Recommend

Organising Denied and Approved software lists.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

20 years of experience

Snow License Manger is a great tool for license management

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 6, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SNOW to keep track of our users in our SAP system. It gives us an easy overview

Pros

Great overview
Easy to use
Easy Tracking
Great reports

Cons

Make a scheduleemail of dashboards
Keeping screen layout, when restart
Errors while creating reports
Integration with other systems,

Likelihood to Recommend

Easy to make Information collection and software identification. Less appropriate to see unidentified software products in the admin user web pages, and not only in server tool.

Christian Brandt Olsen

Teamlead in Legal at Danish TAX (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Snow License Manger is an indispensable tool for professional license management

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 9, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SLM for license management in order to create license compliance. We also use contract management to manage our IT contracts. It is important for us that the license rules from the manufacturers are mapped in Snow. This means that we can rely on the license balance created by Snow.

Pros

manage all license items
generates reliable compliance
offers flexible contract management

Cons

It should be displayed more easier which license is assigned to which client

Likelihood to Recommend

When replacing computers, it is easy to determine which software the old computer has installed in order to supply the new computer with the necessary software. Contracts that are to be renewed are automatically presented for renewal.

The content of the cost fields formatted by Snow is displayed as incorrect when a data record is saved again. Saving is only possible after appropriate changes have been made.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Snow License Manager on hospitality works

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 7, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Snow License Manager for compliancy check on software licenses. Snow License Manager is also used by the IT engineers for information about the usage of software product with the hospital. Snow License Manager give us a " live" view of al servers and clients useds within the hospital, thsi information is used in IT asset management and lifecycle of the hardware items.

Pros

Software uses an type of vendors
Information gathering about the hardware
Very usefull reports
Easy to extend the data from external sources

Cons

Keeping screen layout, colums selection on user account base.
Better hardware reports of the devices, like monitor uses
Putting more information (manual import) on not inventoried devices

Likelihood to Recommend

There is more than enough information and easy filtering foor IT engineers to get there information. When we will know if a particular software item is used or not, Snow License Manager gives the answer, so we can often cleanout applications.

Arnold den Heijer

License & Contractmanager in Information Technology at Stichting Medisch Centrum Haaglanden (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Good but can be significantly improved

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 5, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Snow License Manager is used to track licenses and it's usage. I have also implemented processes to published authorised and denied software allowed to be installed on companies computers.

Aspiration is that Snow License Manager provides accurate information to enable informed decisions to be made around license usage, vendor spend and reduce risk of unlicensed or end of life software.

Pros

Default reports are great
Interface is easy enough to follow once you know what it is your looking for
Scheduled reporting is easy to set up and maintain

Cons

Standard applications reports i.e. reports of applications flagged as denied on the allowed list. This would make the reporting and scheduling automated rather then being manual.
License / Agreement email notification with to users who do not have access to Snow License Manager with predefined text messages i.e. informing users what they need to do as next steps. The text can be updated based on privilege's set up on Snow License Manager e.g. Snow License Manager administrator
Standard report which returns empty container application records
schedule email of dashboards
ability to record application versions greater then 0.x.x in the SRS library. This is critical to tracking of applications where the latest version.
consistency of labels of columns through the various reports
The ability to select and move multiple columns at the same time when building or updating a report .
one report which shows a application, user, computer, if the application requires a license and which users have a valid license for the application.

Likelihood to Recommend

Snow License Manager is well suited to organisations who can afford to invest in the resources to establish, run and maintain the tool, processes and people once the organisation has established the roles and responsibilities and the procurement processes including software licensing and Snow License Manager intergration/aligment.

Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Snow SLM - A SAM Tool That Just Works!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 5, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Snow License Manager to monitor and manage our software landscape. We use it to track installations and removals of software along with usage. We also use it to help monitor the active computers in our environment. We record our software purchases and licenses in SLM in order to track our software compliance position. If it relates to software, Snow License Manager is our organizations single source of truth.

Pros

Software installations and removals
Software usage
Software license tracking

Cons

More options regarding AD user importing

Likelihood to Recommend

SLM is really great for being able to reclaim software licenses when assigned users are not using their software. This is really helpful especially at renewal time. In reality when it comes to software, Snow is very good at managing all aspects.

Sean Johnson

IT Asset Management Analyst in Information Technology at Dart Container Corporation (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Review: SNOW License Manager

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 22, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to managed our licenses. We check if there is any diferrence between the amount of licenties we have en the amout we use. We check if there is a posibilty to spare some money. The scope is the two hospitals and other departments in the region where we use IT. Sometimes there is a check which applications are installed on specific devices.

Pros

Creating overview
UX
Simple & easy to use

Cons

Processing time application
Errors when creating reports

Likelihood to Recommend

Well Suited: Checking licenses, creating reports Less Appropriate: checking costs

Rick Schumacher

Service Level Manager in Information Technology at Gelre Ziekenhuizen (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Snow License Manager is the almost perfect tool for license management

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 2, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Snow License Manager to manage all computers, licenses and IT contracts. The most important thing here is to always have license compliance in view.

Pros

List with all installed applications
the frequency of use of installed applications
License Compliance
Contract Management

Cons

Saving customized list outputs
Evaluation of who is assigned which license

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience