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What is License Management Software?
License management software helps organizations manage, track, and enforce software licenses to ensure compliance with licensing agreements and optimize the use of software assets. These tools allow businesses to monitor software installations, manage license renewals, and track license usage across different devices or users. License management software typically includes features like license assignment, automated alerts for license expirations, inventory tracking, and reporting. It helps organizations prevent legal issues related to software piracy, reduce costs by ensuring they are not over-licensed, and streamline the overall process of managing software assets. Compare and read user reviews of the best License Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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ManageEngine Endpoint Central
ManageEngine
ManageEngine's Endpoint Central (formerly Desktop Central) is a Unified Endpoint Management Solution, that takes care of enterprise mobility management (including all features of mobile application management and mobile device management), as well as client management for a diversified range of endpoints - mobile devices, laptops, computers, tablets, server machines etc. With ManageEngine Endpoint Central, users can automate their regular desktop management routines like distributing software, installing patches, managing IT assets, imaging and deploying OS, and more.Starting Price: $795.00/one-time -
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Reprise License Manager
Reprise Software
At Reprise Software, we simplify software licensing, allowing you to concentrate on creating exceptional software. With a competitive pricing model, our solutions like RLM and Activation Pro offer robust license protection for publishers of all sizes. Our services support both on-premises and cloud licensing, ensuring high-quality, accessible licensing solutions for every developer and enterprise. RLM ensures compliance with your licensing terms, while RLM Cloud provides cloud-based license management, eliminating the need for onsite servers and allowing seamless application integration. Activation Pro gives you, the software publisher, the ability to deliver electronic licenses to your customers 24x7, without customer support involvement. You supply an activation key to your customer, and at a later point in time, your customer activates a license. -
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Nalpeiron Zentitle
Nalpeiron
The pioneer in Enterprise-Class Cloud Based Software Licensing and Monetization since 2005, as used by the world's leading SaaS, Software and IoT Companies. Software Companies looking to monetize their products and manage their customers use the Zentitle platform. Save engineering time. Reduce infrastructure costs. Get your software to market quickly. If you create and sell software, it is time to adopt modern Licensing Models. Product Managers looking to drive revenue from their products do so much faster with Zentitle. New offerings, plans and tiers can be brought to market fast, with little to no engineering once Zentitle is in place. Allow your customers to buy in all the ways they want to. 1000s of software companies have used Zentitle to launch new software products faster and control their entitlements easily, many going from startup to IPO on our cloud software license management solutions. -
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Hector
Hector
Hector is a SaaS tool for monitoring and tracking your equipment and software from the planning phase to the end of the product life cycle. The application allows, among other things, the management of equipment loans, software licenses, asset depreciation, and barcode inventory management. Hector allows companies to build a list of assets from the ground up to gain greater control over their inventory. Plus you can pay only for the number of assets registered in the system ! Hector offers unlimited users and multiple nifty functions to help you manage all your physical assets and software, manage your inventory, and track every piece of equipment wherever they are. Perfect for IT inventory, audiovisual equipment, tools & machinery, medical equipment, or any other asset you need to track.Starting Price: $26.99 USD/month -
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GLPI
TECLIB
GLPI is an incredible Service Management software based on open source technologies. It helps you plan and manage IT changes in an easy way, solve problems efficiently, automate your business processes and gain control over your IT infrastructure. Key features of GLPI: 1. Service Desk 2. Asset management and automatic inventory 3. Rationality for data quality control 4. Administrative and financial management of assets 5. Software inventory and licences management 6. Knowledge and frequently asked questions 7. Statistics and reports 8. Profound integration 9. Android-based devices inventoryStarting Price: €19/month/user -
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CumulusGate Licensing
CumulusGate
CumulusGate Licensing has been developed for License Management and not an adjunct to hereditary systems. CumulusGate Licensing offers an extraordinary licensing solution that aims to improve and expedite the licensing process and procedure for your products & services. Offering combined identity management & license management through unique device fingerprinting identification. CumulusGate Licensing is built to offer convenience and value to you and your customers, being flexible, fast, and easy to use. We provide a very simple, yet sophisticated API that includes all of the software licensing functionality required by ISV’s and end users today. Providing ‘Floating’ and ‘Node-Locking’ to your Users and a number of other License Models to support your business. -
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elm
evoleap
Comprehensive licensing control, analytics, user feedback, and software release management so you can focus on improving customer experience and scaling your product. With Elm, your team can commission and update licenses for thousands of users in just a few clicks. Leverage powerful software utilization analysis dashboard to empower data driven decision making. elm empowers your Product Management team to make data driven decisions, enables Customer Success teams to drive value generation, and supports Sales with key analytics. Integration with support desk, CRM, and other 3rd party apps drives additional process automation and streamlines access to valuable insights. Your customers, resellers and other partners can have their own service portal. Each can see analytics about their downstream users and manage relevant licenses. -
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OpenLM
OpenLM.com
OpenLM is a leading provider of software license management solutions for engineering software applications. OpenLM software provides monitoring, auditing, reporting and management capabilities for engineering software running under all the leading license managers, such as FLEXlm, Sentinel RMS/HASP, Reprise RLM, IBM LUM, DSLS, MathLM, ArcGis etc. Also supports cloud licenses Office 365, Adobe Cloud, Autodesk Cloud and ESRI Online. OpenLM software is compatible with license managers running on Unix, Linux, MacOS, and Windows Operating systems. Infrastructure minimal hardware requirements • Dual core CPU • 4 GB memory (Recommended – 8 GB) • .NET Framework 4.7.2 or higher • Static MAC address (Cloud based servers must use ENI) The OpenLM Server can be installed on a Windows’ machine only.Starting Price: $1980.00/one-time -
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KACE by Quest
Quest Software
KACE® by Quest supports your unified endpoint management (UEM) strategy by helping you discover and track every device in your environment, automate administrative tasks, keep compliance requirements up-to-date and secure your network from a range of cyberthreats. Discover, manage and secure all your endpoints from one console as you co-manage your traditional and modern endpoints, including Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, and iOS and Android devices. KACE is a Unified Endpoint Management solution that offers a single point of control for managing IT systems across the entire organization, inside or outside your network. This comprehensive solution takes the stress out of keeping devices secure and compliant so you can do more.Starting Price: As low as $3/mo/device -
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Debricked
Debricked
Debricked's tool enables for increased use of Open Source while keeping associated risks at bay, making it possible to keep a high development speed while still staying secure. The service runs on state of the art machine learning, allowing the data quality to be outstanding as well as instantly updated. High precision (over 90% in supported languages) in combination with flawless UX and scalable automation features makes Debricked one of a kind and the way to go for open source management. Recently, debricked released their new platform by the name of Open Source Select where open source projects can be compared, evaluated and monitored to ensure high quality and community health.Starting Price: Free -
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xAssets
xAssets
Easy to use, fast, scalable, and configurable full lifecycle asset management with accessible pricing and powerful integration tools. Cloud-based or on-premise with Asset Register, Asset Accounting, Depreciation, MACRS, barcoding, Procurement, Disposal, Planned Maintenance, Contracts, Service Management, Spares and powerful reporting. Can be used from any device or mobile without installation and is security cleared by USAF for SIPRNET and NIPRNETStarting Price: $1000.00/one-time -
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Mend.io
Mend.io
Trusted by the world's leading companies, including IBM, Google, and Capital One, Mend.io's enterprise suite of application security tools is designed to help you build and manage a mature, proactive AppSec program. Mend.io understands the different AppSec requirements of developers and security teams. Unlike other AppSec solutions that force everyone to use a single tool, Mend.io helps them work in harmony by giving each team different, but complementary, tools - enabling them to stop chasing vulnerabilities and start proactively managing application risk.Starting Price: $1,000 per developer, per year -
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Lansweeper
Lansweeper
Discover your IT with Lansweeper, build your centralized IT Asset System of Record. With the Lansweeper Deepscan IP Scanner engine, you can audit all assets in your company network without installing software on them. Build an accurate network inventory of all your hardware, software and users. Scan Windows, Linux, and Mac devices. Keep track of your licenses, serial numbers and warranties of major brands like Dell, IBM, HP, Toshiba and many more. Detect Unauthorized Local Admins, unify Office 365 and AD User Data, get the netbios domain name, check for Windows updates and more. Discover all assets in your IT environment that you didn’t even knew about & take full control of your network. Download your free trial and start your IT asset management.Starting Price: $495.00/year -
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FlexNet Manager
Flexera
FlexNet Manager helps enterprises manage and take control of their hardware and software assets. An all-in-one hardware and software asset management, license compliance, and software license optimization solution, FlexNet Manager offers businesses complete and accurate data on their hardware and software assets so they can manage and cut costs. FlexNet also offers powerful data analytics for greater visibility on software assets and utilization. -
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VIZOR
Vector Networks
VIZOR is an ITIL Certified IT Asset Management solution. VIZOR manages the complete IT asset life-cycle combining network discovery and inventory data with purchase, warranty and maintenance details. Allocation of assets to employees and locations is simplified so you always know exactly who has what. VIZOR audits your network or integrates with tools such as Microsoft SCCM, LANSweeper and Chromebook Admin. VIZOR is completely modular so you only purchase the features you need. Try now for Free.Starting Price: $2.00/year/user -
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AssetLabs Streamline License Tracker
AssetLabs
Track all your software licenses by normalizing, categorizing, and automatically identifying license types using your SCCM or other inventory data. Easily identify Auditable vs free and open source. Streamline differentiates Office Suites from standalone office apps. Automatically finds license deficits, de-duplicates multiple installs and applies product use rights and downgrade rights. Free trial for unlimited users!Starting Price: $1.00/month -
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baramundi Management Suite
baramundi Software USA
Modular, scalable and highly cost-effective Unified Endpoint Management system for comprehensive IT management, security and workflow automation. Modules work together via a single database in a single user interface. Select any of 18 available modules now and add others as needed for OS Install & Cloning, Patch Management, Vulnerability Management, MDM, Remote Control, Inventory, VM Management, SNMP Device Management, Application Control, Disaster Recovery, Personal Backup and more.Starting Price: $5000.00/one-time -
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Genuity
Genuity
It's here. IT intelligence for the rest of us. Genuity is the only affordable, cloud-based platform for managing and monitoring your entire IT profile. Take your IT to the next level for only $29.99 per company, per month. Even in today’s digital age, where information is readily available, the IT market has thrived in the obstruction of market transparency. At Genuity, we’re betting that the world is ready for an alternative. Reduce time spent answering inquiries and researching pricing. Give everyone on your team more time (& money) to focus on tasks that matter. Eliminate auto-renew clauses, complex cancelation terms, surcharges, or any other unnecessary costs that add zero value to your operation. Gain greater control of your entire IT portfolio through enterprise-grade software and a community of IT pros.Starting Price: $29.99 per month unlimited -
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Neocor Fusion Ledger
Neocor Technologies
Gain complete visibility of your software and IT asset landscape. Allows you to reduce cost and limit the organization’s risks in software entitlements, usage, deployment, decommission and overall compliance. Consolidate all licensing entitlements from enterprise license agreements, purchases and other records to ensure software compliance and minimize audit risks. Can help you identify unused software licenses and recommend appropriate license harvesting and reassignment. You can perform reconciliation of contracts, purchase, and entitlement information with normalized inventory data. Allows you to track changing software license structures. Provides consumer centric shopping catalog to end users. Gain better visibility into your organization’s software licenses across on-premise, cloud, and SaaS environments and identify unused programs. Easily calculate your license usage and automatically reconcile Effective License Position (ELP) reports.Starting Price: $5 per user per month -
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CloudM
CloudM
CloudM is an award-winning SaaS company whose humble beginnings in Manchester have grown into a global business in just a few short years. Our team of tech-driven innovators have designed a SaaS data management platform for you to get the most from your digital workspace. Whether it’s Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or other SaaS applications, CloudM drives your business through a simple, easy-to-use interface, helping you to work smarter, not harder. By automating time-consuming tasks like IT admin, onboarding & offboarding, archiving and migrations, the CloudM platform takes care of the day-to-day, allowing you to focus on the big picture. With over 35,000 customers including the likes of Spotify, Netflix and Uber, our all-in-one platform is putting office life on auto-pilot, saving you time, stress and money. If you want to streamline your business, free up your IT team, and get the most out of your digital workplace, then let us show you how. Join the Cloud revolution. Join -
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NetSupport DNA
NetSupport
As the use of technology increases in schools, NetSupport DNA provides the complete solution to help monitor and manage its use, support staff in achieving ISTE standards best practice, and protect students, both in the classroom and across the school or district. This award-winning solution gives technicians IT asset management features to effectively track, monitor, and manage IT assets across a school and its sites from one single point, helping them to save time, identify cost savings, and increase security – plus improve staff and student productivity. A built-in internet safety toolkit is included, as standard, to help schools improve their internet safety policies; its range of proactive and reactive features is specifically designed to protect students without impacting learning outcomes. Meanwhile, teachers can access the classroom management toolkit (NetSupport School, also available as a stand-alone solution) to gain dedicated assessment and collaboration.Starting Price: $10 one-time payment -
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SoftwareKey
SoftwareKey
We are a company that allows you to license software to maximize your business revenue. We provide the means to securely distribute and maintain control of your software, because you deserve to be paid for what you have created. We are a company that allows you to license software to maximize your business revenue. We provide the means to securely distribute and maintain control of your software, because you deserve to be paid for what you have created. You want to maintain control of your software. Our licensing server provides automated online license activation and management. You want to maximize the revenue of your software. Our experienced team can guide you to the solutions you need for success.Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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CodeMeter
Wibu-Systems
CodeMeter is the award-winning protection, licensing, and security system that gives software publishers and ISVs as well as intelligent device makers a complete arsenal to protect IP and fight cyber-threats while harnessing the power of smart licensing to monetize and grow their business. CodeMeter includes a complete lineup of license containers - hardware-, software-, or cloud-based - to store secret license keys safely, a set of stealthy encryption modules, and a versatile array of backend and frontend tools for license management, augmented by professional services. CodeMeter License Central is the versatile gateway to license creation, delivery, management, and monitoring across the complete license lifecycle. The integral CodeMeter Protection Suite comprises a suite of tools that automatically encrypt the compiled code to protect software from piracy, counterfeiting, reverse engineering, and tampering. -
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License Statistics
X-Formation
License Statistics is a software license tracking tool that monitors, processes and produces reports on software license usage, giving you a reliable picture of what software licenses you have and exactly how they are being used in your organization. With its unprecedented efficiency in monitoring and reporting your company’s license usage, intuitive UI, rock-solid stability and support for 30 license managers, License Statistics allows you to keep track of software licenses in real-time or through log importation so you can cut your software costs by as much as 30%. Get support for a number of license servers, including LM-X License Manager, FLEXlm/FlexNet, IBM LUM, Dassault Systemes License Server (DSLS), Sentinel RMS and Reprise License Manager (RLM), as well as your custom license server. -
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Thales Sentinel
Thales
Sentinel Software Monetization solutions combine licensing, protection, and entitlement management to drive business growth. Let Sentinel help you extract the most value from your software. Our software solutions help customers generate new revenue streams, improve operational efficiency, increase customer satisfaction, and gain valuable business insights. Based on award-winning technology, Sentinel has a strong global customer base with over 10,000 customers, in 30 industries located in over 100 countries. Sentinel solutions enable you to offer flexible business models, capture new revenue opportunities, and minimize revenue leaks. Sentinel solutions enable you to simplify supply chain processes, ensure business continuity, reduce risk, and eliminate operational overhead. Sentinel solutions enable you to create a highly personalized and fully connected user experience to increase customer satisfaction, reduce churn, and strengthen brand loyalty. -
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Black Duck
Black Duck
Black Duck, part of the Synopsys Software Integrity Group, is a leading provider of application security testing (AST) solutions. Their comprehensive portfolio includes tools for static analysis, software composition analysis (SCA), dynamic analysis, and interactive analysis, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities throughout the software development life cycle. By automating the discovery and management of open-source software, Black Duck ensures compliance with security and licensing standards. Their solutions are designed to help organizations build trust in their software by managing application security, quality, and compliance risks at the speed their business demands. Black Duck empowers businesses to innovate securely and deliver software with confidence. -
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Torii
Torii Labs
Torii is a SaaS management platform. It transforms the way companies operate by creating an Autonomous IT, enabling IT to increase velocity, agility and efficiency, using a SW that manages SW automatically. With the growing usage of SaaS tools within organizations, Torii enables IT professionals to discover, optimize and control the organization SaaS usage and cost and make better use of Software. Torii gives instant visibility and control, of all company-wide SaaS apps (across G Suite, Okta, Dropbox, and more), giving control over SaaS back to IT. -
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CoreSuite
CoreView
Our best Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) management solutions in one powerful platform. With CoreSuite, you get everything you need to delegate, automate, secure and improve your company’s productivity with Microsoft 365 (M365). For enterprises, M365 admin tasks are multiplied across thousands of employees and multiple geographies. CoreSuite’s single platform approach makes it easy to delegate admin tasks, automate alerts and facilitate adoption. CoreSuite offers one unified dashboard that allows users to seamlessly shift between tasks like calculating chargebacks and preempting data breaches to onboarding new employees and tracking longterm product adoption. -
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AWS License Manager
Amazon
Set rules to manage, discover, and report software license usage. AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage your software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM across AWS and on-premises environments. AWS License Manager lets administrators create customized licensing rules that mirror the terms of their licensing agreements. Administrators can use these rules to help prevent licensing violations, such as using more licenses than an agreement stipulates. Rules in AWS License Manager help prevent a licensing breach by stopping the instance from launching or by notifying administrators about the infringement. Administrators gain control and visibility of all their licenses with the AWS License Manager dashboard and reduce the risk of non-compliance, misreporting, and additional costs due to licensing overages. Independent software vendors (ISVs) can also use AWS License Manager to easily distribute and track licenses. -
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Cylynt SmartFlow
Cylynt
SmartFlow is a complete license compliance and monetization solution that helps high-value software manufacturers transform software misuse into compliant customers. The technology detects misuse of on-premise and SaaS applications, analyzes usage events and visualizes the results. SmartFlow leverages automated data analysis and advanced business logic to make sense of incoming usage data and reveal previously hidden insights about non-compliance. With interactive dashboards, intuitive controls and actionable data, SmartFlow empowers compliance and sales teams to increase license compliance revenue. SmartFlow is made by Cylynt, an independent software manufacturer founded in 2014.