OpeniT LicenseAnalyzer™ enables pay-per-use software licensing.

Pay only for software licenses being used.

Who uses OpeniT LicenseAnalyzer™ software? Companies with expensive software licenses stand to gain the most by keeping an eye on software usage. That’s why our customers include oil and gas companies using expensive geological modeling software, and defense, aerospace and automotive companies using costly EDA software for product design. Using the pay-per-use model for software licensing can be wise for some companies in some situations, while more costly in others. The important thing, no matter which model one uses to pay for licenses with, is to have a reliable method of measuring actual software license usage, and to perform usage report analysis regularly.

LicenseAnalyzer™ provides an enterprise-wide overview of installed software programs managed by most software license managers (including FlexNet, IBM LUM, Elan, Sentinel, Reprise, Arbortext, and Green Hills).

See when and by whom licenses are used over time, by location, business unit, or project group, from a total enterprise view down to a single user, worldwide and in real-time right from your web browser.

The chart below represents one customer’s software license use over a period of 3 months:

The graph above shows the number of concurrent licenses checked out along the x-axis, and the duration(running time)in hours along the Y axis.

The usage report revealed the company used 10% of their core, business-essential application licenses for only a couple of hours in total (shown further in the figure below). For example, you can see only one single license was in use for a period of 770,000 minutes(about 212 hours), while all 100 licenses were simultaneously in use only for 5 minutes.

As shown above, by zooming in on the top 20% of licenses reveals the last 10 licenses have been used very little (3.5 hours of use over a 3-month period).

See above: zooming further in towards the tail reveals the only time all the licenses had 100 concurrent users was for a mere 5 minutes.