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Reclaiming SaaS Licenses

License Reclamation is the process of taking back licenses from application users. These users fall into one of the following scenarios.

  • Employees who are inactive in your organization’s HR Roster
  • Application users who have never logged in to an application
  • Application users who are inactive
  • Application users who are not part of your organization’s HR Roster

Reclaimed licenses help optimize SaaS spend and increase procurement efficiency because you avoid buying additional licenses for new license requests. You also limit security risks by reclaiming licenses from inactive employees in your HR Roster. To achieve these goals, SaaS Management provides an automated License Reclamation workflow. In addition, SaaS Management’s reclamation history tracks each step of the License Reclamation workflow and each License Reclamation status. The Reclamation column in Application Task Tracking lists the SaaS applications that enable you to reclaim licenses through a direct integration.

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Reclaiming SaaS licenses affects all of the user’s licenses within a SaaS integration. For example, a user has licenses for Office 365 Exchange, Outlook, and Yammer. However, the Software Asset Manager is only managing licenses for Office 365 Exchange and Outlook. Reclamation removes all three (Office 365 Exchange, Outlook, and Yammer) licenses from the user.

The following sections provide further information for reclaiming SaaS licenses.

Reclamation Integration Task Resources​

  • For reclamation user interface details, see the Reclamation Opportunities section of the** **Users Tab Buttons.

Enabling the Reclamation Integration Task in SaaS Management​

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The Flexera One Administer SaaS role is required for enabling the reclamation integration task and reclaiming SaaS licenses as Reclamation Opportunities on the Users tab. For details, see Flexera One Roles.

Complete the following steps to enable the Reclamation integration task.

  1. From the SaaS menu, click Managed SaaS Applications . The Managed SaaS Applications page opens.
  2. For a new SaaS application integration:
  3. Add the SaaS application per Adding an Application.
  4. Select the Reclamation integration task from the Add Application page.
  5. Click Authorize .
  6. Proceed to step 4.
  7. For an existing SaaS application integration:
  8. On the Managed SaaS Applications page, select the appropriate SaaS application’s instance link. The instance’s Overview tab opens by default.
  9. Click the SaaS application instance’s Integration tab.
  10. In the Action column of the Integration tab’s Integration Tasks table, click Disabled to enable the Reclamation integration task.
  11. Click OK .
  12. To reclaim a user’s license, a user with the Flexera One Administer SaaS role completes the appropriate process for Immediately Reclaiming SaaS Licenses or Notifying the User before Reclaiming SaaS Licenses.
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After enabling the Reclamation integration task, it takes approximately 24 hours to retrieve the exact count of reclamation opportunities, as this information is dependent on the overnight job execution and the application roster data.

Immediately Reclaiming SaaS Licenses​

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The Flexera One Administer SaaS role is required for immediately reclaiming SaaS licenses as Reclamation Opportunities on the Users tab. For details, see Flexera One Roles.

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Flexera recommends immediately reclaiming SaaS licenses from employees who are inactive in your organization’s HR Roster and from application users who have never logged in to an application.

The following steps explain how to immediately reclaim a SaaS application license.

  1. From the SaaS menu, click Managed SaaS Applications . The Managed SaaS Applications page opens.
  2. For a new SaaS application integration:
  3. Add the SaaS application per Adding an Application.
  4. Select the Reclamation integration task from the Add Application page.
  5. Click Authorize .
  6. Proceed to step 4.
  7. For an existing SaaS application integration:
  8. On the Managed SaaS Applications page, select the appropriate SaaS application’s instance link. The instance’s Overview tab opens by default.
  9. Click the SaaS application instance’s Integration tab.
  10. In the Action column of the Integration tab’s Integration Tasks table, click Disabled to enable the Reclamation integration task.
  11. Click OK .
  12. To reclaim a user’s license, a user with the Flexera One Administer SaaS role completes the appropriate process for Immediately Reclaiming SaaS Licenses or Notifying the User before Reclaiming SaaS Licenses.

Notifying the User before Reclaiming SaaS Licenses​

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The Flexera One Administer SaaS role is required for notifying the user before reclaiming SaaS licenses. For details, see Flexera One Roles.

You can notify inactive application users before reclaiming their SaaS license. The following steps explain how to ask users if they want to keep or return their SaaS license.

  1. From the SaaS menu, click Managed SaaS Applications . The Managed SaaS Applications page opens.
  2. For a new SaaS application integration:
  3. Add the SaaS application per Adding an Application.
  4. Select the Reclamation integration task from the Add Application page.
  5. Click Authorize .
  6. Proceed to step 4.
  7. For an existing SaaS application integration:
  8. On the Managed SaaS Applications page, select the appropriate SaaS application’s instance link. The instance’s Overview tab opens by default.
  9. Click the SaaS application instance’s Integration tab.
  10. In the Action column of the Integration tab’s Integration Tasks table, click Disabled to enable the Reclamation integration task.
  11. Click OK .
  12. To reclaim a user’s license, a user with the Flexera One Administer SaaS role completes the appropriate process for Immediately Reclaiming SaaS Licenses or Notifying the User before Reclaiming SaaS Licenses.