What’s New at Snow Software: December 2023
This month’s update on new and enhanced product portfolio capabilities includes innovations in the areas of:
- Creating IT asset visibility across the enterprise
- Public cloud visibility and cost optimization
- SAP license management
Innovation area: Enterprise-wide asset visibility, insights and risk mitigation
ITAM for end-user computing
Do more with Snow Agents with a new package builder feature
Get more from your Snow Agents and add files and scripts using this new capability in the Snow Agent Package Builder. This feature is available in Snow Atlas and is in early access for on-premises Snow License Manager customers.
Additionally, the Snow Agents team has improved agent documentation including agent default behavior and a change log. The new documentation repository for agents can be found on GitHub.
SAM on Snow Atlas: Bulk archive and delete of computers
We’ve improved the customer workflow and made it easier to manage your computers in SAM on Snow Atlas with the ability to archive and delete computers in bulk.
We heard from users that the process for archiving and deleting computers was tedious and time-consuming, requiring users to select and edit computers one-by-one.
With this new release, users can save time and improve productivity with the ability to edit computers in larger quantities.
SaaS Management
New: Recommended actions
Within SaaS Management on Snow Atlas, we’ve organized the homepage to make it easier for users to know what to do to get more value from their Snow solution. The page is structured with a status page and recommendations, details on how to get started, and an overview of what is new.
- Recommended actions highlights to-do actions within the system, including missing items such as billing, connectors, configurations and subscription-related metrics.
- Get started – offers users help on how to configure and set up for maximum value.
- News – summarizes our latest features and enhancements that are regularly released.
We’ll be continually enhancing the user experience, so check back here for future updates!
New product family view for Microsoft 365
SaaS Management on Snow Atlas is one of the first to allow users to filter by product families and related products within the family of applications and subscriptions.
Customers can now see a holistic view of not only all their Microsoft 365 subscriptions but also key insights to optimize their Microsoft investment (e.g. aggregated view of the Microsoft 365 offering that bundles all the applications such as Visio, Project, Microsoft Office, etc.).
Users can review assignments and activity across multiple Microsoft 365 license types in one place to support optimization efforts. Other KPIs include purchased and free, unassigned and over-assigned; approved and unauthorized; usage and costs; active, inactive, and no activity; monitored and unmonitored.
These metrics help you control shadow SaaS, keep the IT environment more secure, and properly allocate costs across business units.
SAP license management
Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software: Latest version provides even greater compliance, optimization, and automation
Besides becoming certified once again by SAP, Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software’s newest release—version 4.0—provides Snow customers with even more control over their SAP license management. Here are some highlights:
- Compliance: 8,000+ embedded products provide easier contract management possibilities.
- Optimization: Two new STAR License Intelligence rule set updates help customers stay current with recent SAP changes.
- Automation: Customers can always rely on the latest Snow release to keep them automatically up to date, as we stay certified and current to frequent changes from SAP, such as pricing condition lists.
For more news related to version 4.0 of Snow Optimizer for SAP® Software, please see the Release Notes and view the video below:
Innovation area: Cloud management capabilities
CostGPT – AI tool on Snow Cloud Cost
Snow Cloud Cost customers now have access to an AI tool called CostGPT across the platform. You can talk to CostGPT, ask it questions about your cloud cost, and in return, it provides you with personalized insights and visualizations, all in just a few seconds.
Here are some key benefits of using CostGPT:
- Simplicity: Users can ask questions about their cloud costs in chat. For instance, “How much have I spent on Amazon in last three years?” Users can also ask more specific queries like “What percentage of my EBS storage is gp3?” The tool will analyze cloud accounts and provide the requested insights.
- Actionable insights: CostGPT offers insights to optimize cloud costs and suggests additional questions and commands to understand cloud spending better.
- Proactive decision-making: CostGPT enables organizations to make informed decisions on cloud resource allocation and spending based on search data. This prevents unnecessary costs and optimizes resource utilization.
- Real-time data visualizations: CostGPT provides visualizations for exploring and analyzing cloud costs. This helps our users make informed decisions and plan expenditure patterns.
We recognize the challenges of managing cloud costs and the need for multicloud visibility. With CostGPT, users can effortlessly understand their cloud costs instantly.
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