How much are you spending on Engineering Licensing?Do you know how much you could be saving or how to leverage data to make sure you are not spending too much? It may sound like a pop quiz, but these are crucial questions with answers that can affect production rates,...
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Set Up your Remote Workforce for Success
The Pandemic has caused all of us to rethink what can be considered normality. Ensuring your remote workforce is set up for success has become a true necessity. The past year has forced many companies to re-evaluate how the day-to-day operations are being managed with...
Engineering License Management for Solidworks
Are your Solidworks licenses running out of availability? Are there Solidworks licenses that have been checked out for excessive periods of time? SOLIDWORKS, by Dassault Systèmes, is considered the leading mid-range 3D CAD design software, analysis software, and...
4 Steps to Move from Perpetual to Subscription License Models
It seems like only yesterday that Perpetual licenses were the only method to purchase Engineering Software, paying a maintenance fee annually was the accepted practice. However, the creeping increase in annual maintenance costs, speed of IT transformation and the...
Engineering SAM as an Active Business Practice
Many think of SAM (software asset management) as a glorified spreadsheet for listing licenses and vendors. Instead, SAM could be an active business practice that involves maximizing budget savings by actively controlling and monitoring procurement, entitlement,...
Successfully Measuring CAD or PLM Software Adoption
License Optimization for CAD / CAE / Simulation / EDA / Math / PLM software. Throughout my career in digital development technologies, I have often been asked: "How can we get a KPI on the success of our PLM delivery program?" I have also been involved in...
Discovering Under-Utilized or Zero-Use Licenses
The biggest challenge for CAD/IT administrators is discovering licenses that are under-utilized or have zero-use over several months. Do you have a regular report that provides you with this information? Understanding where licenses are costing your business more...
Goals & Benchmarks for Engineering License Optimization
How does your team currently monitor and manage the plethora of engineering software (CAD, CAM, CAE, EDA, PLM, and many other Design, Simulation, Modeling, and Analysis) licenses? What are your goals for 2022? Speaking to many engineering managers, we have come across...
Automated Alerts: Efficiently Manage your CAD/EDA/PLM Engineering Software
Automated Alerts are a critical component to efficiently managing your CAD,EDA, simulation software, PLM, MBSE, CFD engineering software. Not only do we offer the obligatory FlexLM 'license daemon down' alerts, but just as important are warnings for license capacity...
Trying to Meet Compliance Milestones?
Do you have compliance milestones your team is trying to meet? Are you looking for ways to optimize your discretionary engineering spend and make decision-making faster? TeamEDA can offer a single repository for monitoring usage. If the estimate is overestimated: The...
Budget Constraints? Better Decision-Making for Engineering Software Spend
Are you facing budget cuts or constraints this year for your R&D team? Have you been putting off the analysis of your AutoCAD, GIS, CAD, CAM, Simulation, EDA, PLM, etc. license performance? Everyone is feeling the pressure of budget cuts and constraints. Are the...
Ways to Reduce Your Engineering Software Spend
Engineering teams around the world are being forced to re-evaluate just about every aspect of their spend and operations. For those who can ride out the storm, managers have important decisions that need to be made. Here are a few considerations: Software Licensing:...
Types of Risks & Ways to Mitigate
What risks should be considered? Risks could be in the shape of legal, financial or operational. It is also important to look at what companies can do to mitigate risks. Legal Risks Use in geo-graphic zones outside of contractWAN vs LAN licensesShort term emergency...
Do’s & Don’ts of Software Audits for Engineering
Here are a few do’s and don’ts when facing a software audit Do's Discuss with a legal specialist, there are many defense options –Get confidentiality agreements in place.Locate receipts and PO’s – SAM tool makes this so much easier.Consider where the alert come from,...
Types of Software Audits
We are seeing a rise in software audits in the Engineering Software vertical. Just last week one of our clients was being Audited by Ansys. There are two main reasons for Audits: Combat software piracyContract Non–compliance Both can result in fines and are driven as...
What Are Your Goals When Trying to Understand Overall Usage?
Has your company been thinking about the best way to implement an enterprise software asset management solution? It sounds great for overall business management and support. But it can take years to evaluate (with appropriate due diligence) and then implement? You...
Rethinking eSAM & eSAO Strategy
How much information do you really need to justify increasing or decreasing the license totals for your critical and expensive engineering software tools? For many organizations, the answer lies not just in the data, but in the strategy behind how that data is managed...
How Engineering Software Asset Management Can Help Cut Costs
Managers are consistently looking for cost-cutting measures to ensure the longevity of their organizations. Regardless of how long the current pandemic lasts, managers must think about how their teams are spending engineering resources (CAD, CAM, CAE, EDA, PLM, and...
LAMUM Best Practices: Best Historical Usage Reports
There are many reports available in LAMUM. This guide will walk you through them. We recommend determining with your management about which reports are most useful. Current Checkout Reports Realtime data Who has licenses checked out, and for how long Catch hoarders...
Software License Optimization – Don’t Forget Your Engineers!
Are you working on a software optimization project – perhaps Microsoft optimization? Don’t forget your engineering teams as part of this project. When looking at which software and license to consolidate, make sure you have the data you need for license...
