Here's how to justify License Asset Manager's ROI:
With License Asset Manager you can:
Reduce annual license costs 15-20% for easily quantifiable ROI.
Track all shared and standalone licenses. Knowing where all licenses are and who is using them is a good first step.
Show your actual current checkouts, who has the license, how long it has been checked out, and if someone is “camping” (checked out but not in use) on a license, you can send them a “Warning” email.
Create “read-only” portals for engineers to see current checkout status of certain Licenses, how many are available.
Show your historical usage by license, by user, by site, for any time period. With that information you can see how often Max checkouts have occurred.
See usage trends for making decisions.
Show concurrent usage stats as a % of time
Monitor all license servers and daemon, and know immediately if a server or daemon goes down with daemon-down alerts
Long-checkout and capacity-threshold alerts
Expiration alerts, via email, far enough in advance, will allow you to renew licenses without service interruption. You don’t want license keys shutting down in the middle of a project. With more advanced warning, you can better plan vendor negotiation strategy.
Create charge-back reports by User or Group (for license utilization)
Be prepared for an internal or external audit for licensing compliance. Be able to show PO, cost, contracts, time periods. Provide associated documents for each vendor.
What makes License Asset Manager ™ so good:
Intranet, web-based, shared and protected solution. The solution is based on an industry standard Windows Server platform, SQL database, Apache, and Java.
Easy to install and use (intuitive)
Import via Excel spreadsheet
Complete Vendor and Reseller information, including Contacts and Contracts
Complete License Inventory
Shared License Asset tracking
Node-locked License Asset tracking
Full Tool/Product information, including Part#, Discipline, and Price
Extensive Inventory reporting
Extensive Utilization reporting
Viewing portals for casual Users (save URL as a “Favorite”)
Long-checkout Alerts and/or Warning letters
Capacity-threshold Alerts
Expiration alerts (for Contracts and license keys)
Access via Windows browser or iPad
Auto-refresh of “Current Checkout” page (show real-time status!)
Additional Inventory and Utilization Reports
Current License Inventory- WAN
Current License Inventory- LAN
Current License Inventory- Node-locked
Current License Inventory- Subscriptions
Current License Inventory- Temp keys
Current License Inventory- Purchase Type
Current License Inventory- Restriction Type
Current License Inventory- Discipline Type
Current License Inventory- License No.
Current License Inventory- Responsible Person
Standalone License Inventory
Perpetual License Inventory
Expiring Licenses- chronological order
Current Checkouts by Tag/ Feature
Current Checkouts by Actual vs. Available
Current Checkouts by User
Current Checkouts, Age of checkout, and where job is running (machine)
Historical Usage by Tag/Feature (any time period)
Historical Usage by User (any time period)
Top 10 Users for any feature for any time period
Historical Usage by Site (any time period)
Users count actual vs. average concurrent
Summary of Checkouts, and Historical usage (7 days, 30 days, 90 days), by “Product purchased”
