FLEXnet Manager

Tracker provides companies running FLEX and LUM applications, like CATIA, with unprecedented insight into their present software usage and their future needs. With Tracker, you have an easy way to demonstrate compliance and determine the right mix of software to purchase, support, charge back, reallocate, or retire.

Many enterprises with traditional software asset management systems have no meaningful view into how they use applications. Too often software usage reports are isolated by server and provide no overall view across the enterprise, little insight into trends, and no link to contract entitlements or costs.

Tracker’s Web-based interface provides tools to generate on-demand graphical and analytical reports on software utilization across your organization. It lets you monitor usage by geography, cost center, project, or user, so you can share and reallocate licenses to ensure maximum use.

A critical part of Acresso Software’s Enterprise License Optimization Solution, Tracker helps you plan for future software purchases and support. It suggests optimal purchase quantities based upon historical utilization data and user-specified future needs. In short, it gives you the data you need to purchase the right number of licenses.

Benefits to Your Organization

• Optimize spending by basing decisions on actual usage needs
• Cut costs by reallocating underutilized licenses and retiring unneeded ones
• Negotiate better rates with vendors using real usage data and the buying power of your entire enterprise
• Anticipate peak usage to ensure end users have access to the tools they need
• Accurately redistribute usage costs back to your business units
• Keep software usage in compliance with vendor contracts to avoid audits
• Identify the most cost-effective tool mix by mapping vendor features to products

FLEXwrap technology allows you to inject license tracking capabilities into applications before deployment—making it easier to centrally track and report on license usage.

Organizations that effectively track and manage license usage are better able to cut software costs, stay in compliance, and ensure end users have access to the licenses they need to be productive. FLEXwrap technology provides the functionality IT needs to monitor and manage license usage.

By integrating license tracking capabilities into applications before deployment, you can make those programs visible to Acresso's license management solution, FLEXnet Manager. You can then use FLEXnet Manager's Web-based console to centrally track and report on the usage of all your FLEXwrapped software licenses. Using FLEXwrap technology, companies can:

Reduce Costs

• Tracking capabilities allow you to eliminate unused licenses and identify license sharing opportunities.
• Companies can base future software purchases on actual usage data, optimizing software spending.

Increase Productivity

• FLEXwrap technology enables you to track applications in FLEXnet Manager that you otherwise couldn’t track.
• Compliance is ensured through accurate tracking and management of licenses.
• Availability issues are quickly resolved, improving end-user productivity.

FLEXnet Manager now makes it easy to define and monitor software usage as it relates back to a unique vendor contract for critical, back-office software assets, like Oracle, as well as homegrown applications or additional license managers.

Now you can analyze all of your usage data with FLEXnet Manager.

Far more than just a snapshot in time, FLEXnet Manager constantly monitors activity and collects usage data in real time, even when the systems are unconnected, so you can identify usage trends to better anticipate future needs and accurately manage on-going compliance – all without time-consuming manual audits. It gives you a single solution for easily managing licenses and optimizing software use and spending for all licenses – not just FLEX.