What’s New at Snow Software: February 2024
This month’s new and enhanced product portfolio capabilities cover innovations in the areas of Snow SaaS Management and Snow Cloud Cost.
SaaS Management
Exciting new product family capabilities for Adobe Creative Cloud
SaaS Management on Snow Atlas now lets you filter for related products within Adobe’s family of applications and subscriptions.
IT/ITAM Managers can:
- Easily query Adobe and its sub-products to understand the usage and optimize costs (e.g. aggregated view of Adobe Creative Cloud or down to applications such as Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, etc.).
- Quickly see charts with application and subscription KPIs such as purchased or free, unassigned or over assigned, usage and costs, active, inactive, have no activity, or not monitored across the last 12 months or 30 days.
IT, Finance, and Procurement Managers can make faster, better decisions around costs, app rationalization, and vendor negotiation.
Improvements to applications tables for better SaaS management
We’ve updated the SaaS Management applications page to include more granular details to help you gain more visibility into your SaaS estate and optimize your spend.
We’ve added new data, such as:
- Discovery date: This information displays the date when the application was first discovered in your SaaS estate, allowing you to focus on the most recently discovered applications.
- Active users: This information displays the number of users that used this application in the last 30 days, allowing you to track its usage.
Cloud Capabilities
Cloud License Management: Key features added to improve your Azure Hybrid Benefit’s (BYOL) usage
In your cloud license management (CLM) dashboard, you can now see:
- Potential savings in licensing costs if all eligible resources (VMs) are converted to bring-your-own-licenses (BYOL) (Azure Hybrid Benefit).
- The realized savings from your existing BYOL configured resources. We can do this as we have exposed the price for Windows Server licenses in a BYOL and pay-as-you-go (PAYG) configuration in the Snow Atlas UI.
- The number of Windows Server licenses required for BYOL-eligible resources. By automatically calculating the license requirement, you can now quickly confirm that licenses are correctly applied while simultaneously optimizing costs.
Refer to the documentation here.
We have more enhancements lined up for March. As a Snow Atlas customer, we invite you to join the beta program for this application. Speak to your account manager to get started.
Access Snow Cloud Cost application using single sign-on (SSO)
Snow Atlas customers with a Snow Cloud Cost subscription can now access this application directly from the Snow Atlas UI using SSO. To enable this, configure your access on the Snow Cloud Cost page in the Snow Atlas settings. You only need your client ID and the name of your identity provider for Snow Cloud Cost to set this up. Follow the instructions here.
Snow Cloud Cost
New anomaly detection features
We introduce two impactful features that elevate the anomaly detection experience: root cause presentation and anomaly graph visualization along with the anomaly baseline.
With our new root cause presentation feature, you gain deeper insights into the factors contributing to anomalies in your data.
Revamped budget page
Introducing an enhanced look and upgraded capabilities to elevate your cost management, you can now:
- Budget 6 months daily and monthly granularity forecast presentation.
- Easily create budgets based on amortized/net amortized/unblended costs.
- You can now configure your budget setting with all available Cost and Usage filters.
- Seamlessly browse between monthly and daily views along with a detailed table.
- The triggered budget alert is now visible on the budget level.
- New and informative budget alert email.
- Save the budget chart and information as a dashboard panel.
For more information review our documentation. Note: This option is not available for EA accounts.
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