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Bundle Software Assets that already exist as Software Assets
Adam_Dzyacky
Product Owner Contributor Monkey ✭✭✭✭✭
An ongoing internal discussion with respect to Software Asset is "to bundle or not to bundle?"
Bundling a Software Asset easily lets you roll a group of items together but prevents you from seeing metering data about the individual usage. Keeping Software Assets separate allow you to achieve this level of granularity, but of course comes at the cost of having to track separate items.
It'd be neat if Software Bundles, could be rolled up from other Software Assets to get the best of both of these worlds.
Bundling a Software Asset easily lets you roll a group of items together but prevents you from seeing metering data about the individual usage. Keeping Software Assets separate allow you to achieve this level of granularity, but of course comes at the cost of having to track separate items.
It'd be neat if Software Bundles, could be rolled up from other Software Assets to get the best of both of these worlds.
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So this would work as a replacement for the current bundle set up. This could be done by admins creating a Software Asset for each app that can be detected (Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc.) then "link" them together on a "Bundle" style Software Asset.
This Bundle Software Asset would have a Boolean property like "IsBundle" that would then allow the workflow to use the existing gathered information for each of the related Software Assets to calculate the usage and install count.
If a computer appears in only one of the child assets then that counts as one from the bundle.
If a computer appears in one or more of the child assets then that still only counts as one from the bundle.
Anything else missed here this would need?
Adam and I actually posted at the same time, but I had a few extra components to mine..here was my feature request..
So right now, you can set up a bundle and pull together different asset records to show a bundle. However, inside of that bundle, it does not show you individual counts or metered data. So if you want to have that, you have to have the individual asset and then also recreate it inside the bundle.
Seems like it would make more sense to create the individual asset, eg word, excel, outlook, etc, and then simply have a feature that allows you to "include" them in a bundle. That could be check box, related items, etc.
So in an ideal world, combine my other request with this one..you start at software item, link off to create the asset, which would capture the meter and install data, then include/link the individual asset in a bundle, which can then be related to the licensing, financials, orders, etc