Demographic Allocations

The Demographic Allocations panel is displayed only when demographic allocations are enabled (General page > License Allocation Settings panel).

This panel lets you allocate licenses based on demographic types (site, department, and cost center). For example, assume that DepartmentQ purchases 20 licenses of the product. When you allocate those 20 licenses to DepartmentQ, any product installations on devices assigned to DepartmentQ are tracked against the allocated licenses.

For each demographic you add to the panel, the following information is displayed:

Demographic Type: This column’s title (Site, Department, or Cost Center) is determined by the Demographic Allocation Type setting on the licensed product’s General page. The column displays the demographic name (for example, Site1, DepartmentQ, or CostCenter123).
Device Count: The number of devices assigned to the demographic. Click the number to display a list of the devices.
Allocated Quantity: The number of licenses allocated to the demographic. You can change this number to allocate more or fewer licenses.
Installed Quantity: The number of product installations on devices assigned to the demographic.
Variance: The difference between the number of allocated licenses and the number of product installations assigned to the demographic:

Allocated Quantity - Installed Quantity = Variance

A negative variance indicates more product installations than allocated licenses, while a positive variance indicates more allocated licenses than product installations.

The following table lists the tasks you can perform to manage demographic allocations.

Task	Steps	Additional Details
Initialize the allocations	Locate the licensed product in the Licensed Product list (Asset Management tab > License Management tab > Licensed Products). Select the check box next to the licensed product, click Action > Initialize Allocations > OK. Complete the wizard. Click Help if you need more information about any of the wizard pages.	If you don’t want to manually add demographics, you can use the Initialize Allocations Wizard to create demographic allocations. The wizard uses purchase records or Inventory data as the source for the allocation information.
Add a demographic	Click Add to display the Add Demographic Allocation dialog box. Select the demographic from the Site, Department, or Cost Center list. In the Allocated Quantity field, specify the number of licenses to allocate to the demographic. Click OK.
Remove a demographic	Select the check box next to the demographic you want to remove. Click Remove.