How to obtain information about the Database Tools License Portal organizations?
In the Database Tools License Portal an organization can be created to help companies manage certain Quest product licenses and to provide access to those products for their team members. For example, an organization would normally be created using the name of the user company e.g "Acme". Then team members can be added to the "Acme" organization and granted permissions to view and access licenses that have been added to the "Acme" organization.
Note: Members of an organization can be assigned roles that give them different levels of access to licenses depending on their needs and responsibilities.
For users with one license and a single seat it probably wouldn't be beneficial to create an organization. However, if user has multiple licenses, or they have a number of people in their team then creating an organization and adding licenses to it will make license administration simpler. This is because all the licenses for the company and the people who have access to them are all found under that organization in the License Portal and kept separate from any personal licenses.
Administration of licenses also becomes simpler because anyone who creates an organization is assigned the role of Organization Owner. Once licenses are added to that organization the Organization Owner inherits the highest level permission (License Owner) for all licenses that have been added to that organization.
Once an organization has been created then typically the Organization Owner would add new licenses or transfer existing licenses to the organization. If you are an Organization Owner then you will automatically have License Owner permissions for any licenses that are subsequently added or transferred to the organization.
An Organization Owner can add another Organization Owner, which is a good idea in case one is away on vacation. This additional Organization Owner will also be an owner of any licenses that have been added or transferred to the organization.
Note: To transfer a license to an organization one must be the Organization Owner of the organizations involved in the transfer and the License Owner of the license being transferred. For more information see the following KB articles:
See below KBs for additional information:
How to create an organization?
How to add licenses to an organization?
How to transfer ownership of licenses?
How to delete an organization?
Best practices to access or administer licenses for an organization
