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OpenLM, a ‘Gartner Software Asset Management Market Guide, Sep 2021’ recognized vendor is redefining the licensing landscape for engineering and specialty software.
— Steven Bryant, IT Operations Manager, Autoneum
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, July 30, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — The use of software has become an integral part of today’s growing IT infrastructure. With this growth, the purchase of software licenses has witnessed a new peak.
Having said about the growing demand for software, companies may end up buying software licenses in excess or over-purchasing them. This undoubtedly digs an additional hole in every organization’s annual IT budget. OpenLM – the software licensing company based in Israel, has a quick and very efficient solution to this called ‘License Harvesting’.
When software is licensed using a network (concurrent) or token licensing it creates a great opportunity for organizations to optimize their use of expensive licenses. In some cases, OpenLM customers have been able to increase their license usage fourfold.
‘License Harvesting’ is a complex functionality that needs to consider many factors because in most cases, engineering time is more expensive than the cost of the software. Considering that, the license harvesting functionality should not interfere with the engineer’s work. When harvesting a license, the software must ensure that the project is safely saved and that the user can restore the project when needed.
OpenLM uses machine learning algorithms to optimize harvesting functionality while ensuring engineers have access to the software when needed. OpenLM considers several factors: license usage, activity, license availability, allocation rules, and usage patterns over time.
OpenLM primarily offers four license harvesting strategies: Save and Close, Suspend and Resume, Manual, and Custom.
Under the save and close method, a technical parameter is set for the OpenLM tool to identify idle applications based on the requirements of users or organizations. The OpenLM license monitoring tool then saves the user’s work on their workstations and closes all idle applications to release the licenses back into the license pool.
It is a fully automated process and can be configured for applications such as ArcGIS and ArcGIS Pro, AutoCAD (all features that use the acad.exe process), SOLIDWORKS, MATLAB, Catia, Petra, Harmony, Kingdom, etc.
The suspend and resume method is very similar to the above method. Here, idle applications are first suspended, and then the license is released and returned to the pool. The suspended application remains frozen until the license is reclaimed by the application itself when the user tries to resume the suspended session.
Under the manual method, the license administrator identifies all idle software in the EasyAdmin user Interface. Idle licenses will be released manually by pressing a button. This operation can be done remotely and globally as required.
The custom license harvesting method is a general purpose license harvesting method for licenses managed by any type of license server. OpenLM facilitates this method of license harvesting by providing a script-based, flexible, and configurable mechanism.
As the software industry grows exponentially, OpenLM takes a holistic look at how to optimize the use of different licenses across multiple industry verticals. And with this ‘License Harvesting’, OpenLM has clearly indicated a paradigm shift in the engineering and software specialty license management industry by ensuring at least 25% license usage gain for across all industries and business verticals.
About OpenLM:
OpenLM (www.openlm.com) is one of the world’s leading engineering and specialty vendors
software license management solutions (source: Gartner Sept 2021 Software Asset Management Market Guide, 2021). It provides software license management solutions both on-premises (Product Name: OpenLM Software License Management; old name: OpenLM for Engineering Licensing) and on-cloud (Product Name: Software License Management Cloud; old name: OpenLM Cloud). OpenLM customers have been using its cloud offerings since 2018. Founded in 2007, today OpenLM has more than 1000 global customers. Almost 10% of these customers belong to the ‘Fortune 1000’ club and 400 of them are from the US.
OpenLM currently works across Israel, USA, Europe, Japan, France, Moldova, India, Germany, Austria, and emerging countries like Australia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, LATAM, and others. OpenLM has partnerships with traditional software asset management players, such as ServiceNow and LicenseExpertConsultants.
Serving 15+ industries – Aerospace, Automotive, Engineering Services,
Defense, Industrial Manufacturing, Healthcare, Semiconductor, Energy, Power &
Utilities, Gaming, Government, Telecommunications, Mining, Electronics,
Construction, and more, OpenLM has an NPS (Net Promoter Score) of 4.6. (Source: OpenLM Customer Satisfaction Survey).
OpenLM Cloud monitors, optimizes, and manages both engineering, specialty software license, and web-based SaaS applications such as Workday, Salesforce, Office 365, Autodesk, Slack, Postman, etc. OpenLM monitors web-based applications with the help of OpenLM Workstation Agent deployment on user workstation or standalone node or OpenLM Browser Extension. Thus, improving license usage/availability and reducing licensing costs. OpenLM provides many pre-built API integrations, such as AutoCAD plugin, etc.
OpenLM Promises
A global platform to manage licenses
An improved end-user experience at minimal cost
Visibility of the organization’s software assets
Insights to drive data-driven decisions
Paper-based authorization system
Integration with other systems (for example ServiceNow)
Support for federated SSO
Monitoring SaaS or web-based applications
One can view OpenLM’s new pricing model here: https://www.openlm.com/pricing/.
Any business queries can be sent through the ‘Contact Us’ page: https://www.openlm.com/contact-us/. Their contact numbers: Israel – +972 4 6308447, USA – +1 619 831 0029, Japan – +81 505 893 6263, India: + 91 98311 72694
See OpenLM’s
Case Studies: https://www.openlm.com/openlm_case_studies/
Customer Testimonials: https://www.openlm.com/project/customer-testimonials/
Capterra customer reviews: https://www.capterra.com/p/119292/OpenLM/
License managers are supported, and monitored here: https://www.openlm.com/license-manager-capabilities/
Check out the OpenLM Brand video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Vh83IXa5g
Oren Guide
OpenLM Ltd
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