Sponsored Content
Embarcadero® Technologies
Offers Embarcadero® All-Access™:
New, On-demand Tools Cut Costs and Solve Licensing Headaches
With today’s competitive downsized the initial software licenses, they have languages and platforms, most of the
economy, organizations are facing multi- become much more aggressive in identi- common design notations, and all of the
ple business and information technology fying and reducing them. major DBMSs. Embarcadero is the only
challenges, including the need to cut vendor who can say this because All-
costs, improve management and utiliza- Access includes so many multi-platform
tion of existing software licenses, and Q: What are some of the sizable, tools. Rather than creating a large num-
boost IT productivity in the face of head- hidden costs of software tools for ber of granular offerings based on role,
count reductions. To help companies IT and R&D staff? we have just four levels (Bronze, Silver,
successfully meet these challenges, Rathle: There are many costs associat- Gold, and Platinum), which can each
Embarcadero Technologies has intro- ed with software tools that are not as service a variety of roles.
duced a dramatically simpler way to obvious as up-front license costs and
license, deploy, and manage the software annual maintenance and support fees.
tools needed by DBAs as well as data- A primary example of these “hidden” Q: How does All-Access help to reduce
base, application, and web developers. costs is the areas of license deployment, both initial licensing and hidden costs
The new offering is called Embar- management, and administration. This described earlier?
cadero All-Access. It provides users with a includes the costs associated with com- Rathle: It does it in three ways. First, it
single, easy to manage license to the plex installations, tracking and optimizing provides virtually all the tools needed by
industry's only on-demand, multi-platform license utilization, compliance audits, database and application developers at a
software tool chest. This tool chest pro- re-assigning license rights as physical fraction of the cost of a la carte tools.
vides developers and DBAs with virtually locations, projects and user roles change, Second, it reduces the costs associated
all the software tools they need predicting how many licenses of infre- with users evaluating, buying, learning,
to design, build, and manage their appli- quent use tools to purchase, updating and managing their tools. Third, the All-
cations, database systems, and web licenses for deployments of new soft- Access single license approach dramati-
applications. Philip Rathle, Embarcadero’s ware versions, and managing multiple cally reduces the hidden costs and pro-
Director of Product Management, explains software vendor relationships. ductivity drain associated with back-
the significant cost- and time-saving office license management.
advantages of the All-Access approach All-Access lets large organizations
and how it’s setting a new standard for Q: What is Embarcadero All-Access? manage and even pool their licenses on
the future of software tools licensing. Rathle: Embarcadero All-Access is a an internal server, which takes license
new offering that can be thought of as tracking and compliance from a massive
a “tool chest” with a single license to inventory exercise to a simple glance at a
Q: Why are enterprises taking such virtually all of Embarcadero’s industry- web page. Users get a comprehensive
a close look at their costs for leading tools.It includes a vast superset set of tools so they don't have to go back
database, application, and Web of the most common capabilities and to the tightened budget for more money,
development tools? functions that an architect, developer, or potentially delaying project delivery,
Rathle: There are several reasons. First, DBA might ever need. Typical software every time a new tool is needed.
it does represents a large and obvious cost solutions require licensing standalone And deployment is made much
line item in IT budgets that should be well- products individually. The idea with All- easier with the new Embarcadero®
managed. Second, much of this tooling Access is that one should be able to have InstantOn™ technology. Click on a tool,
carries hidden costs that are not always access to everything without having to and it opens. No install; it just runs.
readily apparent at the time of initial soft- pay for more than what it costs to buy Companies can spend months coordinat-
ware acquisition. As organizations have just two or three tools. ing upgrades to software and new
gained more experience with these soft- Part of what distinguishes All-Access deployments, but with the InstantOn
ware tools, and realized that these addi- is its breadth and depth. Embarcadero capability in All-Access your software
tional costs can be 2x-3x higher than covers all of the major development truly becomes on-demand. ■
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. ■ 100 California Street, 12th Floor ■ San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415-834-3131 ■ Fax: 415-434-1721 ■ Email: info@embarcadero.com ■ www.embarcadero.com