Smarter Licensing Starts with Smarter Inventory: How Licenseware Uses Lansweeper to Automate SAM Accuracy

When it comes to Software Asset Management (SAM), precision is key. And precision starts with data. Even the smartest analysis depends on having the right data in your inventory. Licenseware helps organizations optimize licensing for major vendors like Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe. By integrating directly with Lansweeper’s Data API, Licenseware automates the discovery and normalization of installed software across the IT estate. The result? Real-time visibility, reliable compliance assessment, and significant reductions in waste and risk.

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The Challenge: Incomplete Software Inventory = Inaccurate License Positions

Licenseware helps organizations optimize software licensing across vendors like Microsoft, Oracle, and Adobe, but its analysis is only as good as the input. For many organizations, installed software data is outdated, incomplete, or fragmented across systems.

Disconnected endpoints, legacy discovery tools, and messy exports made it hard to identify what’s really deployed, leading to inaccurate license positions, inflated compliance risk, and costly over-licensing.

The Integration: High-Fidelity Software Inventory via Lansweeper’s API

Licenseware solved this by natively integrating with Lansweeper’s Data API to pull a continuously updated catalog of installed software across the IT estate.

Using scoped queries (e.g., filtered by install date or software vendor), Licenseware retrieves:

• Normalized app names, versions, and publishers
• Machine/user associations
• Install timestamps
• Lifecycle metadata (e.g. EOL/EOS flags for compliance filters)

This data feeds directly into each vendor-specific license module. API calls are made on a schedule, and optionally triggered by Lansweeper webhooks when new devices or changes are scanned, keeping Licenseware’s analysis aligned to real-time infrastructure conditions.

By only requesting the fields that matter, the Data API approach keeps payloads small and syncs fast, even across thousands of assets.

The Outcome: 85–90% Gains in Compliance Accuracy, 25% Reduction in Wasted Licenses

With Lansweeper providing real-time inventory intelligence, Licenseware customers report:

• 90% improvement in license position accuracy
• 25% reduction in unused software spend within 6 months
• 70% less manual effort collecting and maintaining software data

By eliminating guesswork around what’s actually installed, and on which machine, Licenseware delivers license optimization that’s faster, cheaper, and scalable. Real-time, API-driven discovery means IT teams stop chasing spreadsheets and start focusing on real efficiency

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