Ways to Use Active (LAMUM) & Inactive (LAM) Metrics

Managing engineering licenses? Did you know that there are different licenses and 2 types of metrics you can monitor:

  • Active MetricsFloating / network licenses (LAMUM)
  • Inactive MetricsNode-locked and Named-users (LAM)

With these licenses, engineering license monitoring and management can help your organization in a number of ways including:

  • Find Cost Savings – License Inventory / Reduce costs by tracking actual license usage
  • Chargebacks – Automated IT chargebacks
  • Optimize Usage – Monitor usage trends; Denial Heatmaps
  • Better Negotiation and Decision Making – Vendor management; Renewal decision analysis
  • Improve User Productivity – Look at behavioral factors; Critical System Alerts; Checkout length warnings

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