Snow Spend Optimizer provides the most comprehensive discovery and usage data for your complicated IT environment. Our discovery, combined with a software recognition catalog of >700k applications, gives you an unparalleled, trusted source of IT asset data. With Snow Spend Optimizer, you can quickly get down to the business of assessing IT risk and driving operational efficiencies and innovation.

Features

Contain spiraling software costs

• Usage insights that compare licenses paid for against actual usage—so you can stop paying for more than you need
• Expert-level assessments for key products such as Windows® Server that enable you to identify the most cost-effective way to license in virtualized environments

Be audit ready 

• Get real-time visibility into your compliance position and quickly pull reports to communicate your effective license position (ELP) confidently, including your position across on-premises and Azure environments for Microsoft Windows and SQL Server
• Identify license risks related to virtualization

Rationalize your technology portfolio

• With a view into your application catalog, stop sprawl during the procurement process
• Automatic categorization of more than 700,000 applications so you can identify overlapping technologies

Reduce risk 

• Equipped with the same source of normalized asset data, teams across your organization can report on applications at end of life or nearing end of life to reduce risk from vulnerabilities
• Inspect what you expect by reporting on usage of denylisted applications