Summer ’21 Release Highlights: License Management Made Easy

Let’s face it, knowing where and how your Salesforce licenses are distributed is one of the most important metrics in any org — after all, it has a direct impact on your costs and therefore your bottom line. User licenses assigned to former employees, temporary project participants, or those whose internal roles have changed not only cost money, but can even hold back org improvement if you’re putting off projects while you wait to have the budget to add more users.

Luckily, Summer ’21 is making license tracking and transparency even easier! The new release will add the “Active Licenses” tab to your Lightning Usage App to help admins everywhere monitor active, assigned, and available licenses.

This weekly (Sunday) data pull and process will present your most recent usage data, from the last 30 days so you’ll get an instant, graphical representation if any licenses have sat untouched for more than a month (great for ID-ing dormant users) and you’ll be able to see a breakdown of all licenses by type, user profile, and more!

You’ll also be able to drill down into permission set licenses and feature licenses by active, assigned, and unassigned to see exactly what and where everything’s being used.

This is an update that’s bound to make admins and IT departments smile, because anything that adds transparency to your tech spends is a welcome addition, regardless of platform. It’ll probably also excite sales, support, and marketing teams who might find they already have the resources, yet to be reassigned, to tackle their next process modernization project, without increasing their annual Salesforce spend!

So keep your eyes peeled and, once the Summer ’21 release hits production next month, click over to the “Active Licenses” tab and take a look at how your utilization numbers look.

Until then, keep working hard, smart, and happy — and we’ll see you in the cloud.