New FrontRange License Manager 3.1 Helps Organizations Better Manage Volume License Agreements to Improve Software Asset Management ROI.Drive out unnecessary costs and ease the management of volume licensing schemes across multiple vendors PLEASANTON Pleasanton, city (1990 pop. 50,553), Alameda co., W Calif., a suburb of the San Francisco–Oakland area, in a vineyard and dairy region; inc. 1894. Wine and cheese are produced, and there are publishing and stone-quarrying industries. , Calif. -- FrontRange Solutions This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , a developer of Infrastructure Management and Software Asset Management (SAM) solutions today announced the launch of FrontRange License Manager 3.1 (formerly Centennial License Manager), which introduces the ability to help organizations better manage their Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. Enterprise Agreements and other volume licensing arrangements. For organizations that actively use Microsoft SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. 2003, FrontRange License Manager 3.1 includes a new data collector that can take software audit information from the ubiquitous Found in large quantities everywhere. This English word means "all over the place." systems management tool. The integration between License Manager and its default software audit source, FrontRange Discovery, has also been enhanced. Matt Fisher, Director of Marketing at FrontRange Solutions, commented: "With software budgets at best static, organizations need to focus on how they can better manage the software on their networks. License Manager is designed to help organizations drive out unnecessary costs by giving both IT and financial stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. the visibility and control needed to eliminate rogue Rogue, river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in SW Oreg., in the Cascade Range N of Crater Lake. It flows southwest and west through a fertile valley (noted for its orchard fruits) and then across the Coast Range to the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach. purchasing, poor deployment practices and ineffective management of volume license agreements." FrontRange License Manager 3.1 also features a new bulk data import tool, which can take licensing information from multiple vendors and contracts, and load this into the license repository (1) A database of information about applications software that includes author, data elements, inputs, processes, outputs and interrelationships. A repository is used in a CASE or application development system in order to identify objects and business rules for reuse. automatically, presenting a significant administrative saving to the end user organization. FrontRange License Manager is an integral part of the FrontRange SAM Suite[TM] solution, which comprises FrontRange SAM Essentials for project management, FrontRange Discovery for audit, FrontRange License Manager for license recording and reconciliation, and NetInstall for packaging and deploying applications onto the network. Alongside the core development of the FrontRange License Manager solution, FrontRange Solutions has also enhanced the unique 'Nexus' hosted license database, which automatically validates the licensing information entered by end users (normalizing data where appropriate to ensure consistency and reduce discrepancies between customer and vendor license information). The Nexus now features nearly one million titles from vendors such as Microsoft[R], Symantec[R], CA[R], McAfee[R], Novell[R], Autodesk and Adobe adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth. adobe Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. [R]. An upgrade to FrontRange License Manager 3.1 is available to all supported License Manager and SAM Suite customers at no additional cost. For more information or pricing, contact your local FrontRange sales office or channel partner. About FrontRange Solutions FrontRange Solutions develops software and services that growing mid-size firms and distributed enterprises rely on every day to build great customer relationships and deliver high-quality customer service. The company applies a unique combination of innovation and automation with a standards-based approach to simplify core business processes, including: IT service management; customer relationship and sales force management; and PC lifecycle management. More than 150,000 of the world's best-known brands use FrontRange offerings to quickly improve their interactions with external and internal clients and achieve better business results. For more information, call 800.776.7889, follow 'FrontRangeSols' on Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. 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