Adobe Creative Cloud

Use the Adobe Creative Cloud pages in SAM Core to find optimization opportunities for your license utilization and costs.

Description

The Adobe Creative Cloud section provides information on the licenses, costs, and users for Adobe Creative Cloud. To populate the pages with data you need inventory sources, and to get correct statistics and insights you must add cost periods to the licenses and link users. See Prerequisites for Adobe Creative Cloud for more information.

On the Adobe Creative Cloud, Cost, License activity, and Users pages you can explore availability, spend, and activity for your Adobe Creative Cloud, to find optimization opportunities and potential cost savings.

The Portals page shows all of your configured Adobe Creative Cloud portals which you import data from.

The Insights show the potential cost savings and optimization opportunities for your Adobe Creative Cloud licenses specifically, and link to the corresponding report.

Note

Adobe Creative Cloud customers with an Enterprise (ETLA) agreement must be aware that manually changing the license quota for the licensing profiles in the Adobe Admin Console might cause the Adobe Creative Cloud pages in SAM Core to show an incorrect number of licenses. To show the correct number of licenses, the sum of license quotas for all licensing profiles must equal the total licenses purchased.

Characteristics

The statistics are presented in charts and tables. Several filters are available.

Filters

There is one main filter for portals and license plans, affecting most data, and column filters in tables.

Filter
The main filter affects all data in the Adobe Creative Cloud, Cost, License activity, and Users pages but not Insights.
- Portals
  Select one or several Adobe portals to filter data from.
- License plans
  Select one or multiple license plans to filter data on.
Column filter
Search or select a metric in a column to filter data in the table. This affects data exports from the table.

Charts

Charts present summaries and relative breakdowns for the selected metric at the top and on the Charts tab.

Page	Description
Adobe Creative Cloud	Highlights assigned, unassigned, and overassigned licenses compared to total amount of licenses, indicating optimization opportunities. License availability Shows a relative breakdown per license of assigned, unassigned, and overassigned licenses. Assigned licenses Shows assigned licenses per month for each year.
Cost	Highlights costs for assigned, unassigned, and inactive licenses compared to total cost, indicating optimization opportunities. License cost Shows relative costs per license for assigned, unassigned, and inactive licenses. Total license cost Shows total license cost per month for each year.
License activity	Highlights active and inactive licenses compared to the total amount of assigned licenses, indicating optimization opportunities. Active licenses are assigned licenses with monitored activity within the last 90 days. Inactive licenses are assigned licenses with monitored activity more than 90 days ago and licenses without monitored activity. License activity Shows a relative breakdown per license of active and inactive licenses. License activity history Shows license activity per month for each year.
Users	Highlights total, active, and inactive users, indicating optimization opportunities. Active users are users with activity within the last 90 days. Inactive users are users with activity more than 90 days ago. Users Shows a monthly breakdown of active and inactive users for all Adobe licenses with user-based metrics.

Tables

Tables present detailed breakdowns for the selected metric on the Data tab.

Page	Description
Adobe Creative Cloud	Shows a breakdown of all assigned, unassigned, and overassigned licenses.
Cost	Shows a breakdown of costs for assigned licenses, unassigned licenses, and inactive licenses.
License activity	Shows a breakdown of all active and inactive licenses.
Users	Shows a breakdown of all users and their latest activity in any license with user-based metrics.
Users / [user name]	Tabs: Licenses: Shows a list of the user's licenses and their activity in them. Products: Shows a list of the user's products and their activity in them. Inventoried users: Shows the Snow inventoried users linked to the Adobe user, and their inventoried activity.

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