List of vendor-specific predefined reports (Inventory Reports)

Vendor-specific predefined reports, also known as Inventory Reports are ready-to-use reports that show the inventory and license utilization details of a selected vendor or product. The reports are shown within widgets and each widget includes a summarized dataset for the vendors.

Prerequisites to access reports

Access to vendor-specific reports is based on the access rules. For more information on access rules, see Roles and permissions.

List of available vendor-specific reports

  • Adobe Reports
    • Adobe Cloud Software Inventory
    • Adobe Cloud Software Measured License
    • Adobe Cloud Software Users
    • Adobe Inventory Summary
    • Adobe Measured License
    These reports help you understand discovery and license utilization of Adobe products, such as Adobe CC suite and Adobe DC, including Adobe CC suite user-based license utilization.
  • HCL Reports
    • HCL Inventory
    • HCL Summary

    These reports help you understand discovery and license utilization of HCL products.

  • IBM Reports
    • IBM PVU Sub-capacity
    • IBM FlexPoints and Cloud Paks
    • All IBM Metrices
    • IBM Software Only
    • First Detected Last Week - IBM Software
    • IBM Software - Pending Classification
    These reports help you understand discovery and license utilization of IBM products and provide information about IBM approved audits. You can also use the IBM PVU and RVU MAPC consumption under full and subcapacity licensing terms to understand current license consumption and predict the future license requirements.
  • Microsoft Reports
    • Microsoft Office Usage per Computer
    • Microsoft Measured License
    • Microsoft SQL Server Inventory
    • Microsoft SQL Server Contracts
    • Microsoft SQL Server Measured License
      Note: 10.0.12 This report has been replaced by Microsoft SQL Server Contracts.
    • Microsoft Office 365 Inventory
    • Microsoft Office 365 Measured License
    • Microsoft Office 365 Software Users
    • Microsoft Windows Server Inventory
    • Microsoft Windows Server Contracts
    These reports help you understand discovery and license utilization of Microsoft products, such as Microsoft SQL server processor core licensing and Microsoft Office 365 user-based licensing. The reports allow discovery of Microsoft products through which you can manually gather CAL licensing information.
    • Microsoft Windows Server Inventory - This report shows data for all Windows Server programs in all groups.
    • Microsoft SQL Server Contracts - This report shows all the existing contracts with Microsoft SQL Server for all groups. The columns shown remain same as shown in All Contracts. You can filter the report by product and Microsoft SQL Server Virutal Cores and Microsoft SQL Server Physical Cores’ metrics.

      In future it will be filtered by product name.

      Note: This report is created in exchange for Microsoft SQL Server Measured License (All Metrics).

    • Microsoft Windows Server Contracts - This report shows all the existing contracts with Microsoft Windows Server for all groups. You can filter the report by product name (Software Product Name) and publisher name.
  • Oracle Reports
    • Oracle Measured License
    • Oracle Database
    • Oracle Database Measured License
    • Oracle Java Measured Inventory
    • Oracle Java Inventory
    • Oracle Database Inventory
    • Oracle WebLogic Inventory

    These reports help you understand discovery and license utilization of Oracle products, such as Oracle Processor licensing for Oracle Database, Oracle Java and Oracle WebLogic products.

  • SAP Reports
    • SAP Inventory
    • SAP Measured Licenses
    • SAP Inventory Summary
    These reports help you understand discovery and license utilization of SAP products, such as SAP R/3 and SAP S4/HANA.
  • VMware Reports
    • VMware Inventory
    • VMware Measured License
    • VMware Inventory Summary
    These reports help you understand discovery and license utilization of VMware products, such as processor-based VMware licensing.

Report types

All vendor-specific predefined reports follow a naming convention according to their features and purpose. You may follow the naming convention to create reports. The reports are listed according to their naming convention.

  • Reports name ending with Inventory provide details about the inventory of a software with supporting discovery data to help Software Asset Management (SAM) understand of title license utilization. For more information on inventory reports, refer to Software Classification.

  • Reports name ending with Measured License provide information about license measured by BigFix Inventory. For more information on measured license reports, refer to All Metrics.

  • Reports name ending with Summary provide discovery summary for a specific software vendor. For more information on software summary reports, refer to Software Summary.

For some software titles, BigFix Inventory provides additional reports specific to them:

  • Oracle Java Usage per Computer to help SAMs to discover computers that have installed Oracle Java instances that are never used. This data helps to optimize license by uninstalling Java instances that have not been used.

  • Microsoft Office 365 Software Users and Adobe Cloud Software Users provide information about users who use this software.

  • Oracle Databases provide additional discovery details about Oracle database product.

Note: IBM-specific reports follow the same naming convention as in IBM License Metric Tool.

For more information about how to use the functions of predefined reports and for the complete list of the reports, refer to Available reports. For more information about different vendor reports, see also Reported license metrics