As a very first European open-source software editor to partner with HIPT, Mandriva is aiming at capturing the nascent open source enterprise solutions market in Vietnam with its IT systems management solution: Pulse.

The coming months will see Mandriva and HIPT work closely on jointly marketing Pulse to the public sector and the financial industry in Vietnam.

The feature allows you to have a clear picture of the software licenses of your IT assets at any given time :

In order for Pulse to run an inventory of the software licenses, one needs to ensure that Pulse is present in the packages and your IT asset.

To do this, start by creating a package containing the software and then deploy it in your IT asset.

In the package editing interface, you can define the settings for the management of licenses, where you can associate an entry for an inventory and define the total number of licenses bought. Pulse will then do the rest for you !

The idea behind designing the intuitive license management interface was to provide users with a clear and a concise overview of the licenses : you can see the total number of licenses and the ones used including the licenses that are nearing expiry.