Managing engineering licenses? Did you know that there are different licenses and 2 types of metrics you can monitor:
- Active Metrics – Floating / network licenses (LAMUM)
- Inactive Metrics – Node-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