While many companies rely heavily on expensive licensed software suites to streamline product design and manufacturing, few understand how their licensed applications are being used within their organization. They don't know if there are overpaying for licenses they never use or even if their usage is compliant with vendor contracts.

Your investment in software is too significant to leave unmanaged. That's why there is ALT, a tool that gives you unprecedented insight into how FLEXenabled licenses are being used across your organization. With ALT, you have an easy way to demonstrate compliance and determine the right mix of software to purchase, support, chargeback, reallocate or retire.

Monitor and Report on FLEX Usage

ALT's Web-based interface provides tools to monitor and generate on-demand graphical and analytical reports on FLEX product utilization across your organization. Types of reports you can view include:

• Usage Summary Reports - See unique usage counts, total accumulates runtime, % of available time utilized, average runtime, and much more
• Product and Feature Usage Reports - See which users, usernames, Workstations and more ran which products and features during a specific time period

Accurately Plan for Feature Purchases

ALT suggests optimal purchase quantities based upon historical utilization data and user-specified future needs.
It lets you quickly understand your organization¡¯s past license software requirements and can vary future use parameters to analyze their effects on purchasing. In short, it gives you the data you need to purchase the right number of licenses.

Benefit to Your Organization

• Optimize spending by basing procurement and allocation decisions on actual usage needs.
• Cut costs by reallocating underutilized licenses and retiring unneeded licenses.
• Accurately redistribute costs for the use of expensive applications to business units by geography, cost center, project, etc.
• Negotiate more favorable rates with vendors using real usage data and the buying power of the entire enterprise
• Keep software usage in compliance with vendor contracts
• Anticipate peak usage times to ensure sufficient licenses are available
• Work with one vendor to track all your licenses, from FLEXenabled to LUMenabled software.
• Simplify analysis and more easily identify the most cost effective tool mix by mapping vendor features to products

    

Application License Tracker Highlights

Understand your licensed resources and make intelligent buying or upgrading decisions

• Quickly analyze changes in license usage behavior
• Understand the effects if financial changes
• Identify the benefits or pitfalls of new licensing models
• Provide timely answers to critical business questions and forecasting
• Meet new business demands by remixing
• Audit the use of products within your organization

Optimize procurement

• Map features to tools and procure the most cost-effective tool mix
• Negotiate flexible, cost-effective contract terms from detailed usage data
• Maintain a costed inventory by geography and organization

Effectively manage remixes

• Project future usage from historical usage data and calculate the optimum tool portfolio

Ensure contract compliance

• Deploy and track licenses against stored contract terms

Optimize project and resource management

• Manage denials of service based on cost to business
• Maximize license sharing by tracking usage by organization, geography, and time zone and deploy to ensure higher license utilization