Top 8 Alternatives to AssetSonar

AssetSonar is an IT asset management tool that maintains, tracks, and manages your IT assets. The software asset management tool of AssetSonar helps to consolidate your software inventory, manage contracts and license entitlements, and optimize software spending.

It helps to keep a centralized account of contracts, payments, and renewals. It tracks software utilization and gives insights into software cost per user and license savings to optimize software spending as per your business requirements.

AssetSonar ensures compliance and keeps you audit-ready. It keeps your IT teams updated by providing seamless communication with timely automated alerts for all upcoming license expires, renewals, and payments. 

In this article, we will discuss the top 8 alternatives to AssetSonar. But before that, let us know more about AssetSonar.

Key Features

• It helps to track software license compliance across your organization.

• It assists in setting multi-format custom fields to track any data point.

• Scan-based audits help improve transparency and accountability.

• It helps to track software asset depreciation to know the best time for retiring. 

• It supports importing cloud software and users from your Google Workspace and Okta User Directories.

• It helps you to save costs on software licenses with intuitive reports and KPIs.

Drawbacks

• No feature to build a map with all the CI’s in order to build a CMDB

Customer Rating

• G2: 5/5

• Capterra: 5/5

Top 8 AssetSonar Alternatives

1. Zluri

Zluri is a SaaS management platform that helps IT teams discover, track, manage and monitor SaaS apps. It optimizes SaaS spend and maximizes the ROI. With Zluri, you can view all the SaaS subscriptions and eliminate SaaS wastage.

Zluri enables businesses to explore and manage third-party SaaS applications as well as their security and compliance from a command center. It gives IT teams greater control over the SaaS stack. 

It automates your IT tasks, such as onboarding and offboarding. Its usage monitoring feature helps you to optimize your SaaS stacks, application efficiency, and licensing costs.

Zluri provides real-time insights and reports on your SaaS stack, which allows you to make better purchase and renewal decisions.

Key Features

Eliminate shadow IT: Zluri app library has over 225,000+ applications. This is the largest SaaS library and discovers almost 100% of the SaaS apps in your organization. 

It uses five discovery methods to find SaaS apps in your organization: SSO, finance, and expense management systems, direct integration through APIs, desktop agent (optional), and browser agent (optional). 

Zluri Application Discovery Methods

Zluri provides detailed information about all the SaaS apps used in the organization and shows apps in four categories that include Managed (IT teams, department/business units, or any individual), Unmanaged, Restricted, and Need Review.

App Insights helps you improve SaaS governance by providing actionable cards on the overview of an application. You can stay on top of SaaS usage & spend trends to track your apps better. 

Vendor Management: Zluri has an automated vendor management system with all the features needed to manage your SaaS stack. It gets you easy access to metadata that allows you to cut down your software spending and increase overall ROI.

With Zluri, all your contracts are stored contextually with other vendors' information so that you can access the details when required: during renewals, audits, termination, etc. 

If you have bought multiple apps from a single vendor, you can negotiate a better deal with the help of Zluri.

Renewal Licenses: Zluri alerts you about your upcoming payment and contract renewals, giving you enough time to decide whether or not you need the app.

Monthly Renewal Calendar

For contracts, you get alerts 30 days, 15 days, and 1 day in advance. For payment, you get 7 days and 1-day alerts. And you can set custom alerts as well. This helps you prioritize high-value contracts.

Renewal monitoring is a part of license management. Zluri enables you to manage all your renewals by creating an approval process to reduce unnecessary spending.

Additionally, it helps you prioritize high-value renewals and prepare for negotiation with the SaaS vendors. Zluri levels the playing field for IT and procurement teams.

Zluri equips IT teams with SaaS usage data. Hence, you get clarity on what to renew, how many licenses you actually need, and what to terminate.

License Management: Zluri helps you gain visibility at all the licenses, subscriptions, contracts, and perpetual. It empowers you to optimize your SaaS licenses.

This view helps the IT teams gather information on unused and abandoned apps, rightsize unused licenses, or downgrade to a suitable tier.

Zluri allows you to manage all your contracts in one place. You can download all your licenses, subscriptions, contracts & perpetual information in a CSV file. The file will be sent to you in your mailbox.

License Module

Workflows to Automate IT tasks: The workflow module offers automation features like onboarding and offboarding. It is just a matter of one click to get your employees onboarded to various applications and even specific groups within the application.

Onboarding Playbooks: You can create onboarding workflows. While creating onboarding workflows, Zluri recommends apps based on their department and seniority. 

App Suggestions for Onboarding

Note that the suggestions are not just limited at the application level; Zluri recommends in-app actions as well, like adding them to channels, groups, projects, etc.

Example 1: In-App Suggestions for Airtable

Example 2: In-App Suggestions for Google Workspace License Followed by Slack

Furthermore, you can save these workflows as playbooks to reuse them when new people join for the same role. 

The workflow overview gives you a brief summary of your workflows & playbooks. You can see which workflows are running, which are recently edited, and which playbooks are most used. This makes it easier to edit & reuse a workflow.

Similarly, you can automate offboarding. What differentiates Zluri from other access management tools is that it ensures all sessions are terminated when access is revoked while saving IT teams time.

You can use our ROI calculator to see how many hours you are currently wasting on these tasks if you are doing them manually.

Zluri has recently launched the employee app store. It acts as the organization's app store. Employees can log in and request the apps. This helps improve IT teams' productivity. Based on the apps and licenses available, workflow gets triggered, and the license gets assigned automatically.

Reports: The reports module in Zluri is divided into organization data, workable insights, and spend reports. 

Types of Reports in Zluri.

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Customer Rating

• G2: 4.9/5

• Capterra: 4.9/5

2. ManageEngine Asset Explorer

ManageEngine AssetExplorerhelps to track software licenses from the planning to the disposal phase. This tool enables the management of all software license contracts and ensures that all licenses comply with regulatory standards. 

It manages and monitors the software assets of the organization. It helps you to make informed decisions about software purchases.

AssetExplorer guides to an understanding of software license compliance and the use of unauthorized software in the IT company and helps to act proactively to curb illegal usage and problems associated with it. 

Customer Rating

• G2: 4/5

• Capterra: 5/5

3. Snow Software

Snow software optimizes the software across your entire organization. Their software asset management tool helps you to view your entire technology ecosystem, streamline and simplify licenses, provide opportunities for savings and reduce risk.

It empowers you to manage the cost, usage, and risk associated with your IT assets, accurately discovering and identifying all the software across the IT estate.

Snow can help you prepare for the audits with complete visibility of your technology assets, entitlements, and agreements. It gives you the power to manage and optimize the software licenses. Additionally, it provides detailed insights to strengthen your renewal negotiations with better cost savings.

Customer Rating

• G2: 4/5

• Capterra: 4.3/5

4. ServiceNow

The software asset management tool of ServiceNow controls risk, reduces software spending, and provides visibility to the entire software assets of the organization in a single platform.

It tracks and manages software licenses across the enterprise and automates workflows to lower costs and stay compliant. It takes control of your software and cloud assets.

It helps to cut down software expenses by eliminating shadow IT and reducing overlapping software and abandoned licenses. It gives a complete view of all IT resources across on-premises and cloud environments.

Customer Rating

• G2: 4/5

• Capterra: 4.5/5

5. Alloy Software

Alloy software asset management helps to optimize software spending, ensures license compliance, and keeps your organization audit ready. It gives you complete visibility and control of your software assets.

It tracks all the details of software assets throughout their lifecycle. It optimizes the software asset lifecycle from procurement to disposal.

It helps you to save time, reduce effort, and enforce consistency by automating and enhancing the process of requesting and provisioning software. It streamlines the maintenance of your software assets to cut expenses and optimize software spending.

Customer Rating

• G2: 4.5/5

• Capterra: 4.5/5

6. Flexnet Manager by Flexera

FlexNet Manager by Flexera helps to manage and rightsize an organization's software assets. It enables better software license management to save time and spend through software license optimization. 

It helps you maximize the value of your software portfolio so that you can redirect the savings towards strategic initiatives. It manages vendor relationships and contracts to optimize the business ROI.

IT teams can achieve remarkable results by efficiently managing vendor relationships and contracts of Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and more. 

Customer Rating

• G2: 4/5

• Capterra: 4.4/5

7. Certero

Certero gives complete visibility into your business software landscape. It helps you control license management and software governance by providing real-time insights.

It helps you increase the security as it will expose you to all the software running within your organization. It will save you time and money as it provides a view of the business’ IT estate and prepares you for audit defense.

In addition to enhancing in-use software, Certero’s SAM solutions assist in supporting software acquisition and disposal decisions. 

Customer Rating

• G2: 5/5

• Capterra: 4.3/5

8. Lansweeper

Lansweeper is an IT asset management tool that gains complete visibility across your entire technology asset estate. Its software asset management tool finds & gathers information on all software assets. 

It consolidates all the software asset details in a centralized system of record and assists you in viewing all the software in one place.

In addition, it connects with your existing technology stack and keeps track of all the data. It helps you to stay up to date and make decisions based on accurate software inventory data. It reduces software spend and the risk of licensing non-compliance from a software audit.

Customer Rating

• G2: 4.5/5

• Capterra: 4.6/5