Octopus Cloud SPLA Manager

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1 AutomateyourSPLA workflowwith Octopus Cloud SPLA Manager

2 About Us Founded in 2013 Headquarter in Zug, Switzerland Managed more then 500 SAMprojects Were responsible for over Service Provders in 16 countries Over 10 years experience in SPLA Familiar with all SPLA point of views Microsoft Reseller Service Provider Consultant

3 Mission Our Mission is to make sure, that organizations are exactly paying for what they use and make better decisions on future transformation with the information we deliver.

4 Personas MSP and their End Customers License Compliance Officer In charge of ensuring compliance with SPLA and Volume license agreement with MS IT Manager Maintains proper inventory of IT hardware and software assetsused in the delivery Financial / BusinessManager Ensuring the payment or purchasing of the proper amount of licenses

5 Why SPLA first? Complexities Complying monthly deadline and time pressure Collecting all SPLA relevant inventory data Comparing licensing options for best TCO Understanding complex license rules and their metrics Adopting license changes to your own licensing process No standardized processes or templates available Are we going to get audited?when? How much is that going to affect our business? How can we get better prepared? Result: Unpaid time and a certainuncertainty. Frustrations pre-programmed!

6 Octopus Cloud SPLA Manager Simplify your entire SPLA licensing efforts with our three components.

7 OC SPLA Manager OC Intelligence Roadmap VMWare vcan Microsoft CSP Microsoft Azure Stack Microsoft VL Scanning all relevant data from environment Importing automatically collected data SPLA Usage Reports Generating usage report OC Reporter can be used from MSP and End Customer Inventory Data OC Scanner

8 OC Scanner Agent-based or Agent-less WMI Hypervisors Hosts & VMs OC Scanner Registry Windows, SQL, System Center, Exchange etc. TS / RDS / AppLocker Desktop Applications (Office, Projects etc.) Other Challenge: Automating the identification of IT hardware and software products used monthly across the entire infrastructure. This must be done as quickly and effortlessly as possible

9 Approach «One-Scanner» for everything Management Server WMI / ICMP / Firewall Scanner Scan File Domain / Private vlan Host 1 Host 2 Domain / Private vlan Workgroups / SingleServers VM 1 VM 2

10 Approach«API-Scanner» Management Server IIS Server Configurator HTTP(s) Scan File 1 Scan File 2 Scan File 3 Domain / Private vlan Host 1 Scanner Domain / Private vlan Scanner Workgroups / SingleServers Scanner VM 1 VM 2

11 OC SPLA Intelligence OC SPLA Intelligence The OC Intelligence is a Cloud Service which is managed and updated from Octopus Cloud in collaboration with Software Vendors, Audit Firms and our Community. SPUR conform programmed SPLA licensing rules and algorithms Always up todate Licensing costs optimizations Compliance analyzes and alerts Comparing different licensing options perapplication

12 OC Reporter OC Reporter User Interface OC Intelligence OC Scanner IT Infrastructure & Installed Applications License Management Security Authentication Audit Trail Report Preparation License Optimizer SPLA Usage Reports SKU Analyzer SPUR Processor Challenge solved: Prepare accurate and timely SPLA usage reports to the SPLA Reseller in a simple and low cost manner

13 KPMG Certificate OC Reporter The Octopus Cloud SPLA Manager is the first worldwide KPMG certified and automated SPLA reporting tool for Microsoft service providers.

14 Demo Octopus Cloud Reporter

15 With our Products we track Servers & Users When they are added Updated Deleted And to which Organization they belong we calculate SPLA Usage Report for the HSP SPLA Usage Report per End Customer Based on the Licensing Rights the HSP has If Data is available SPLA Usage Reports from the past We analyze and optimize Compliance mistakes Licensing costs

16 Benefits Clarity of Hardware and Software Usage Time saving for SPLA Usage Report Calculation Better Compliance Better engagement with End Customer Information for future Transformation

17 Implementation Octopus Cloud SPLAManager

18 Implementation Standard Edition Octopus Cloud On-Premises OC Intelligence Scanning all SPLA relevant data from environment Importing automatically collected data SPLA Usage Reports Generating SPLA usage report OC Reporter CSV files OC Scanner

19 Implementation Dynamic Edition On-Premises OC Intelligence Scanning all SPLA relevant data from environment Importing automatically collected data SPLA Usage Reports Generating SPLA usage report OC Reporter CSV files OC Scanner

20 Whywearebecomingtheleaderin SAM formsp`s? SPLA usage reports ready for reseller and customer billing Fast updates on SPUR changes in the OC Intelligence Agent-less, agent-based and hybrid modes possibilities for scanning entire environment Solution designed and built byspla Experts simpler to deploy and less costly than typical SAM tools Certified by KPMG as an accurate and precise SPLA reporting tool and recommented from Microsoft

21 Questions?