The concept of a license pool is fairly unique to Nitro-LM.  Each pool is attached to a company.  A company can have as many different pools as you can define.  It really depends on how complex you need to make your access restriction rules.  Using the concept of pools, you can do some unique things like bundling software into suites.  For example, if you had three software products, you could put 5 licenses in a pool and allow the customer to use those 5 licenses in any way they chose across the products.  Need more developers using product A this week?  No problem, just release the license from product B and use them in A.  In a nutshell, a pool is a group of licenses along with all the rules for getting access to those licenses.

Rules are broken down into three categories: product associations, usage restrictions, and access restrictions.
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