G'day all, I have a client who has a very complex business, and they need to be able to:
a) retire software licenses when a business unit leaves or is sold and the licenses go with the business
OR
b) move the licenses to a new cost centre when a business unit leaves or is sold and the licenses stay with the parent company
Either of these scenarios are equally likely, and happen a few times a month. option B is easy to deal with, and that is what they are doing now.
It's option A that is giving me a little greif.
My thoughts are to have the licenses purely owned by a location / Cost centre, and when that location or cost centre is Retired the admin has two options.
They can manually reallocate the licenses to an archive location / cost centre (i.e. put ZZ_ in front) - but this leaves the licenses 'in the pool' from a comliance perspective.
OR they can delete the license purchases to remove them from compliance reporting, but then they lose the history . . .
Has anyone dealt with a situation like this?
Thanks!