Blogs

Network Licenses & How They Work

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wauNf8oW7e8 Say we are looking at EDA applications (i.e. Mentor Graphics), they request a feature / license from centralized licenses server. Vendor daemon see if you are allowed to obtain one. The idea is that these floating licenses can...

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Chargebacks for Engineering Software

Chargebacks for engineering software are crucial but take so much time. Engineering teams are consistently asked to align with business objectives by ensuring costs and charges are billed back appropriately by project, department, or individual manager. What if there...

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User & Group Detail Usage Reports

Are you interested in looking at usage for individual engineer or groups? LAMUM has a variety of reports to look at details of each. User Detail Reports Usage Report by User shows all Tools used by a specified Engineer in a given period of time.Users Report by...

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Daemon Manager & FlexLM

Did you know that about 80% of floating license types are FlexLM? How are you monitoring FlexLM usage? Many Vendors use FlexLM to control checkouts for their applications. The daemon is what monitors and limits those checkouts. With the Daemon Manager it possible for...

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On-Demand Reports

On-demand Reports are one-click, commonly needed reports. The data in these reports is real-time and includes most current data. LAMUM offers 3 ways to create on-demand reports. “Favorite” in your browser Create the report you want. Save the URL as a Favorite in your...

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Types of Automated Alerts

Are you managing expensive licenses such as Cadence, Mentor, NX, ProE, Ansys, Matlab, among others? Your team or manager may want to get notifications pertaining to those licenses. There are automatic Alerts available in LAMUM for better engineering license...

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Reports With LAMUM

LAMUM is a very useful usage reporting tool that engineering teams can use to have a more detailed view on license utilization, bottlenecks and requirements. Companies can look at the reports to see general trends as well as more specific detailed analysis....

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How Does LAMUM Gather Data?

You may be wondering how does LAMUM gather data. Here we discuss how LAMUM collects data for Inventory/Asset, Renewal and Vendor and Usage data (for the various license types). Inventory/Asset, Renewal and Vendor data: Quickly import (anything in an Excel...

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Added Functionality: JSON Export for Tableau

In LAMUM, our Engineering Software license intelligence platform, we deliver hundreds of reports through interactive, on-demand favorites or batch delivered (Take a look at our YouTube videos to learn more about various functionality). By always innovating, we also...

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Understanding Usage Patterns & Trends

Tracking how your engineering team uses software is essential for managing resources efficiently. With LAMUM (License Asset Manager with Usage Monitoring), organizations gain clear visibility into usage patterns, license demand, and group behavior. LAMUM makes...

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