Adobe Acrobat Pro
$228 Per user, per year
100 unused licences is $22,800 a year
SCCM had it. Intune doesn’t.
Software metering for Microsoft Intune
See who actually opens every paid app, on which device and when, before you renew it.
No new agent to install: it runs through two Intune Remediations you already have.
Trusted by teams delivering secure digital workplaces
The renewal you sign blind
Intune knows where the software is installed. Not who opens it.
The renewal is due and finance wants a seat count. Configuration Manager’s software metering told you who ran each program (Microsoft Learn). After the move to Intune, Microsoft is direct:
“At this time, Intune provides no running application detection.”
Microsoft Learn, Enterprise App Management
Eido gives it back: who ran each application, on which device, on how many days and for how long. 122 paid applications, from Adobe and Autodesk to SolidWorks and Bloomberg Terminal, are ready to switch on.
- Tableau Desktop 12
- Adobe Photoshop 21
- Microsoft Visio 26
- Microsoft Project 14
- Adobe Illustrator 13
- Bloomberg Terminal 9
- Autodesk AutoCAD 9
9 users, 1.6 hours each in a month. Worth a look before the renewal.
What an idle seat costs
Every licence nobody opens renews at full price
A few examples at list price. Your own numbers come from your usage data, and from what you pay.
Microsoft Project
$660 Project Plan 5, per user, per year
50 unused licences is $33,000 a year
Microsoft Visio
$180 Visio Plan 2, per user, per year
100 unused licences is $18,000 a year
Autodesk AutoCAD
$2,030 Per user, per year
10 unused licences is $20,300 a year
Examples at list price, before volume discounts. The licence counts are examples, not any customer’s.
We reduced broken configuration policies, cut unused licences, and saved approximately $30,000.
The visibility Eido gave us changed everything.
Leo MIT Leader, Morrison Global Find the idle seats before your next renewal, on your own Intune data.
How it works
No new agent. Usage the next day.
No new agent to install: it runs through two Intune Remediations you already have. Remediations need one of the licences Microsoft lists.
- 1
Pick the apps
Connect your tenant, switch on App Metering and choose from a gallery of 122 paid applications, or add any Windows program by name.
- 2
Deploy two Intune Remediations
Eido gives you the scripts. Nothing new to install on the device, nothing to keep running on a server.
- 3
Walk into the renewal with evidence
Usage appears the next day: who ran each app, on which device, on how many days and for how long, by department if you need it.
Already run ServiceNow SAM? It reads monthly usage from Eido and sends Eido the reclamation rules it wants measured.
The rest of Eido
There is more to Eido than software metering
The same product, alongside Intune, in one place.
120+ Intune reports, ready the day you connect
Compliance, patching, apps, Autopilot, policy and audit, joined to every device, user and Entra group, with 12 months of history behind them. No Power BI project, and no Graph API scripts to maintain.
Problems reach the service desk on their own
When an alert fires or an automation runs, Eido raises a ServiceNow incident with the device’s primary user as the caller, or posts to Teams, Slack, email or a webhook. ServiceNow SAM reads app usage from Eido.
Device data from minutes ago, not hours
Intune checks in about every 8 hours. With the Eido Client, inventory refreshes as often as every 15 minutes, up to 32x fresher, and a device can be fixed from its page without a remote session.
Complete patch status, on every platform
Windows, Windows 365, macOS, iPhone, iPad and Android in one view, graded against your own rules with update ring deferrals taken into account. Down to each patch on each device.
- Windows 542
- Windows 365 100
- macOS 48
- iPhone 82
- iPad 20
- Android 19
Undo the policy change that ruined Monday
A new version of every Intune policy each time it changes, every setting’s value over time, and a restore when a change goes wrong.
Know why the laptop is slow before the ticket arrives
An experience score for every device, every night, with the reason behind it: the app, the network, the logon or the Intune change.
Experience score 77Fair 30-day average, 596 devices scored
- Startup and logon 68
- Performance 74
- Network 81
- Reliability 85
- Device health 89
Intune changes that hurt experience
- Win11 – Security Baseline Settings changed 7 Oct Worse Logons +38% 214 devices
- Teams – Update Policy Assignments changed 6 Oct Worse Crashes +61% 88 devices
Each change compared with the rest of the tenant over the same days, so a bad Monday is not blamed on it.
Each team sees its own devices, without scope tags
Rules on real device and user attributes, such as department, office or device name, applied to every report and dashboard. No scope tags to set up or maintain.
Your Intune estate
- London service desk Office is London
- Mobile team OS is iOS, iPadOS
- VIP support Department is C-Level
FAQs
Questions about software metering for Intune
Does Microsoft Intune have built-in software metering?
No. Unlike Configuration Manager (SCCM), Intune has no software metering. It reports which applications are installed, but in Microsoft’s own words: “At this time, Intune provides no running application detection.” (Microsoft Learn). It is one of the gaps teams notice first after moving from SCCM. Eido fills it. No new agent to install: it runs through two Intune Remediations you already have.
What replaces SCCM software metering when you move to Intune?
Eido’s software metering: who ran each application, on which device, on how many days and for how long, across your Intune-managed Windows devices. It runs through two Intune Remediations, so there is no new agent to install and no Configuration Manager infrastructure to keep. 122 common paid applications in 14 categories are ready to switch on, and any other Windows program can be added. Remediations need one of the licences Microsoft lists.
Can I feed metering data into ServiceNow SAM?
Yes. ServiceNow Software Asset Management reads monthly usage from Eido, and sends Eido the reclamation rules it wants measured, so there is no spreadsheet in between.
Stop renewing software nobody opens
In 15 minutes we will show you who uses your paid apps, and how little it takes to switch metering on. No new agent to install.