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Score8 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

Reviews

4 Reviews

Snow Atlas review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Snow Atlas is used to gain ELP's for our vendors, giving us a view of risks and opportunity's. With Snow Atlas we're able to see where our issues are located to be able to target them easily.

Pros

  • Providing a full view of deployments
  • SaaS connectors are brilliant for our cloud applications

Cons

  • I'd like to see more criterias in the reporting of device information e.g., not just picking up a device name

Likelihood to Recommend

With the recent transition to Atlas, we've been able to delve deeper into the cloud usage. An example of this would be, we have discovered use of an application we had deemed as a security risk that we thought had been blocked. We're now able to remove access and address the access.
Vetted Review
Snow Atlas
4 years of experience

Snow Atlas Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Snow Atlas to gain visibility of infrastructure, the applications in use and license compliance. This helps us optimise the investment in software and to ensure we reduce shadow IT and prevent license compliance. We also capture all purchases across the organisation as agreements which allows us to effectively manage renewals and consolidation of similar subscriptions

Pros

  • Discovery
  • SaaS visibility
  • End of Life

Cons

  • M365 Copilot usage

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited as a SaaS solution which reduces our internal infrastructure and support costs
Vetted Review
Snow Atlas
1 year of experience

Essential Tool for Improving Asset Management

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

There is a saying, 'You can’t manage what you can’t measure, and measure what you can't see'. Snow Atlas has provided the much needed visibility we need to demonstrate good stewardship over the entire lifecycle of our digital assets and services, to rationalise, standardise, and optimise of assets, reduce our exposure to risk, improve both licensing and security compliance, reduce costs, and maintain warranty and utility.

Pros

  • Visibility of traditional desktop and web based applications
  • Reminders when agreements and annual renewals are coming up in the next 90, 60, 30 days
  • Helps us identify similar application types, where they are being used, so we can better understand the capabilities they provide businesses
  • Provide usage trends over time to inform renewals and compliance
  • Reclaim software that is note in active use

Cons

  • Dashboard reporting so we gain insights over time
  • The ability to add both desktop and cloud applications not in Snows database directly
  • Alert Snow when the application type needs correcting
  • Ability to add new periods and rates for M365 and still have previous periods
  • Ability to log calls to Snow via Snow Atlas

Likelihood to Recommend

Improving visibility of - end user devices, servers, traditional installed software and web based applications. - usage vs installs, reclaiming software, and reducing potential costs - providing usage over time - lacks simple automation like notifying people they have software that they aren't using, removing it if they either do not reply or do reply they no longer need it - reporting is pretty basic necessitating another BI tool - no mechanism within a tool to log calls
Vetted Review
Snow Atlas
25 years of experience

Great Product, with rooms for improvement

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Software License Management of on-prem products SaaS Usage of Cloud products

Pros

  • Visibility of Applications, User, devices in your estate
  • License compliance reports
  • SaaS Usage Visibility
  • Shadow IT Visibility

Cons

  • SaaS connectors are not always kept up to date usually when Publishers make changes to their Portal API's. Appears to be little active monitoring on Flexera/Snow Atlas' side unless a customer reports an issue with the data being returned. Fixes are normally implemented as as quickly as possible, depending on whether it is considered a Bug Fix or a Feature Enhancement.
  • Users - Snow on SAM - No ability to add or bulk import manually. Completely reliant on AD Discovery or Entra ID Discovery
  • Users - SaaS module - No ability for bulk update of Users for things line 'Online only' or 'Qualified' user accounts. This is an issue in larger companies where you have thousands of SaaS Users being reported through connectors like Microsoft E365.
  • SaaS module Dashboard does not allow for filtering of insights to a specific Publisher.
  • Not all Back end SMACC functionality form Snow License Manager have been exposed to the front-end access, as Snow Atlas does not allow customer Administrators access to the back end or SQL databases.
  • If you are migrating from on-prem Snow License Manager to Atlas, migration tools have not been created by Snow and will require a Project to handle your migration. Without Migration tools, we had to use a Managed Service Partner who had to manually create a lot of their own scripts to retrieve data that cannot be downloaded via reports and imported into Atlas. Any attachments documentation on Agreement or License Records has to be manually re-attached/uploaded to the relevant Agreement/License records in Atlas as the migration was performed.

Likelihood to Recommend

Assessing Compliance Assessing Renewal requirements
Vetted Review
Snow Atlas
5 years of experience