Understanding License Management

Basics

1. How the tool works
2. How data is processed
3. What is a fingerprint
4. What is a software product
5. What is a license model
6. What is a license requirement
7. What is license assignment
8. What is consolidation of license requirements
9. What is a license
10. What is a license pool
11. How does license entitlement work
12. What is a contract or a Volume License Agreement
13. Data object model

License Intelligence Service (LIS)

1. Purpose and Service Levels
2. Updating License Intelligence Service data (LIS)
3. How to configure LIS Update data provider

More articles about LIS: License Intelligence Service - Matrix42 Self-Service Help Center 

background data processing 

1. Understand 
2. Configure 
3. Notifications about active processes in License Management

Dashboards and reports

1. Dashboard in Licenses
2. Dashboards for License Management (up to version 12.1.1)
3. Report - Software Compliance
4. Report - License Inventory
5. Report - Financial Risk Assessment
6. Report - Cost Saving Potential
7. Report - Software Usage Saving Potential

Advanced principles

1. Logic behind license entitlement
2. What is consolidation of license requirements
3. Consolidating license requirements for suites
4. Examples of software suite consolidation
5. Automatic change of license model with downgrades
6. Extent of license model change with downgrades
7. Licensing load-balanced virtual machines
8. License mobility with virtual machines
9. Configure remote application usage and platform access tracking
10. Create license requirements for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
11. Manage compliance with 'concurrent use' license model
12. Settings relevant for creation of license requirements
13. Single engine activation for Software, Asset, and Contract Management

Vendor-specific topics

1. Microsoft Power BI Reporting Server | Core (Full Virtualization on SA; Mobility on SA)
2. Microsoft SQL Server
3. Microsoft SQL Server - license requirements with virtualization
4. Microsoft Windows Server
5. Microsoft Extended Security Updates (ESU)
6. Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud
7. Oracle MySQL
8. Oracle Java SE