<font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM is pleased to announce the availability
of <b>IBM Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis app. level 9.0! </b></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM Endpoint Manager for Software Use
Analysis 9.0 is the first of a series of deliveries aimed to provide capabilities
that were part of IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed product to
allow customers to be able to use IBM Endpoint Manager to report on IBM
capacity licensing usage (aka IBM Sub-Capacity). </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Customers can download the new application
level from the IBM Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis fixlet site.
Software Use Analysis gathers information about installed software and
hardware in a customer's environment.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It allows companies to assess if they
are compliant with IBM and other software vendors' software licensing requirements.
Available reports help IBM customers ensure compliance with IBM capacity
licensing requirements and demonstrate good IT governance. Software Use
Analysis 9.0 also helps to reduce costs by identifying software that is
rarely used or not used at all.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM Endpoint Manager for Software Use
Analysis 9.0 offers the following enhancements:</font>
<ul>
<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Capacity reports (PVU and RVU). Users
can view a report to verify the number of processor value units that are
counted for a software program. Users can set their own reporting time
ranges and export reports to CSV format.</font>
<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Overview Dashboard. The dashboard on
the landing page contains a set of widgets that reflect typical use cases.</font>
<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Audit log. All user activities that
impact license usage changes are recorded and are available to view and
export to CSV and PDF formats.</font>
<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Unified scanning. Software scans for
signatures and capacity scans for hardware information now use one scanner.
The file system is scanned for both software and capacity data, and only
one fixlet is used for scan deployment.</font>
<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Automatic propagation. The software
catalog is automatically propagated to all endpoints.</font></ul>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Notations on this release:</font>
<ul>
<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Software Use Analysis 9.0 server runs
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and leverages DB2 as data repository</font>
<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">DB2 is provided with a free for use
license when used in conjunction with Software Use Analysis</font>
<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM Endpoint Manager platform 9.0 is
required and IBM Endpoint Manager server can run on RHEL with DB2 and/or
supported Windows Servers with Microsoft SQL database</font>
<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Migration/Upgrade utilities for Software
Use Analysis 2.x are not yet available at this time.</font></ul>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Site version update: 6</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Action to take:</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Obtain the SUA 9.0 installer by
navigating to the Software Use Analysis 9.0 deployment dashboard under
Software Use Analysis in the <b>Server Setup -- Systems Lifecycle Domain</b>.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Katarzyna Adamska-Fryz</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">ILMT/SUA Development</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM SWG LAB, Kraków, Poland</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">office: (+48)12 628 9521, mobile: +48
783 109 521</font>
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