License Dashboard vs Matrix42 Asset Management

License Dashboard is a software asset management suite for organizations tracking software licenses, IT spending, utilization, and compliance. Its products include License Manager, Portal, Discovery, SaaS Manager, Universal Data, and an API. License Manager automates reconciliation, calculates license metrics, records compliance history, and maintains an audit trail. It checks entitlements against software catalogues, links maintenance and upgrade terms to base licenses, and visualizes virtualization relationships. Views cover cloud, on-premise, and hybrid entitlements, with predicted-spend recommendations. Portal provides role-based dashboards, reports, renewal tracking, unused-application identification, Azure billing monitoring, and Microsoft 365 subscription oversight through web access on desktop and mobile. Discovery scans Unix, Linux, and Windows networks using agent-based or agentless methods. SaaS Manager monitors AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and SaaS subscriptions. Universal Data normalizes information from inventory and third-party systems, while the REST API supports single-tenant and multi-tenant deployments. The suite is offered as a hybrid deployment across API, Linux, web, and Windows. Pricing is on request.

Matrix42 Asset Management tracks IT assets, inventory, lifecycle history, and contracts in one system. Its inventory covers hardware, software, and virtual machines, and automatically discovers new assets across platforms. Continuous network discovery maps assets and dependencies and can identify devices that should not be present. The product manages physical and mobile devices, applications, and servers, retaining status and configuration history for each. Real-time infrastructure updates feed an automated configuration management database.

Contract management centralizes documents and data, sends renewal and deadline notifications, and provides interactive cost reports and risk assessments. Listed integrations include Microsoft SCCM, Intune, Azure, AWS, IBM License Metric Tool, Jamf Pro, and VMware Workspace ONE. Contract tracking and barcode scanning are supported. Deployment is hybrid, with platforms including Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and self-hosted environments. Matrix42 is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and was founded in 1992. The product is paid, has no free plan, and offers a 30-day trial; pricing is tailored by quote.