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Avio, a global leader in the aerospace industry with 5000 employees, develops and delivers subsystems and components to major international aeronautical, military, civil and space programs. See below how their trial of OpeniT software yielded a high return on investment, with a 47% reduction of their annual costs for all engineering applications used in Italy.

Business Challenge

As the company grew, the existing commercial solution for measuring software usage was insufficient for cost and feature constraints—they needed flexible software management tools with powerful analysis capabilities. Avio required factual data about license use, and had begun to look for a solution that would support multiple license managers such as FlexNet and LUM.

Having evaluated various asset management tracking solutions, Avio enrolled Polimatica, an IT consultancy firm, to team up with OpeniT and acquire its platform. LicenseAnalyzer, LicenseOptimizer and SystemAnalyzer modules were installed on a number of selected computer and workstations. These modules then used a single, centralized database on one dedicated server to store the data being logged from the software license managers. (The results from using SystemAnalyzer are not reported on here.)

OpeniT Software Solution

The project began by using the LicenseAnalyzer client on 13 License Servers, and deploying SystemAnalyzer for data acquisition on 500 PCs and workstations.

The first phase involved finding actual software usage levels and patterns, by collecting and analyzing the application license usage data being gathered. Polimatica provided insights about several utilization metrics, and assisted with collecting data and analyzing it to see how hardware and other system resources were being used on each client. The data gathered also provided insights about actual system obsolescence and local application usage.