Open iT software Usage metering and IT optimization solutions brochure.

1. Global Leader in Usage Metering and Optimization

2. CORE SOLUTIONS
Open iT delivers solutions within software and asset management,
IT chargeback, capacity and performance planning. We enable our
customers to optimize their information technology assets by
metering how resources are used, providing a tool for analyzing
usage and the expertise for software optimization.
Why do you need us?
Getting a better view of how your costly IT resources are
being used throughout the organization will help you
make better decisions, develop accurate budget, reduce
bottleneck and improve efficiency.
CENTRALIZED VIEW OF GLOBAL USAGE INCREASE TECHNOLOGY UPTAKE
HARVEST UNUSED LICENSES IMPROVE USER EFFICIENCY
ALIGN IT WITH BUSINESS STAY COMPLIANT
IT CHARGEBACK/SHOWBACK ENABLE PAY-PER-USE
Open iT’s software solution is the most flexible and powerful
usage monitoring tool available, and is currently deployed at
more than 50 Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

3. GLOBAL IT ASSET USAGE
How does Open iT Software keep
SUPPORTED*
track of your assets?
LICENSE MANAGERS
• Abaqus
• Animator
• Beta LM
• DSLS
• Elan
• Enterprise
Architect LM
• FLEXlm/FlexNet
• Green Hills
• HQMS Our software serves as a global hub
• IBM LUM for collection and distribution of
• LM-X usage data, placed in the middle of
your environment. Open iT software
• LS-Dyna is platform-independent, and can
• MathLM support devices even outside the
• NetHASP firewall in which the data collected is
• Parasoft uploaded automatically once an offline
device gets online.
• Reprise
• Sentinel RMS Open iT also integrates with other
• SlickEdit enterprise solutions, such as AD/LDAP
• STI and Microsoft SMS/SCCM, in order to
provide more detailed usage data to
• Vector the business.
* Other License Managers Open iT is cloud-ready, and enables
can be supported upon metered usage agreements for cloud
request.
providers and their customers.

4. HARVEST UNUSED LICENSES
Are you spending too much on unused software
applications?
Costly licensed applications, if not in real use, lead to
resource waste. Open iT software gives you an enterprise-
wide view of software license usage, from corporate down
to a single user. With Open iT, you can get highly targeted,
automated license management by: (1) discovering
applications not in use, (2) distinguishing underutilized
applications and, (3) redeploying unused licenses to active
users working on high priority projects.
Compare total and active max concurrent usage of an application. Is
there a need to harvest inactive licenses?

5. ALIGN IT WITH BUSINESS
How to value and justify IT expenditures?
Aligning IT with business strategy boils down to how
business unit managers make decisions about financing
resource distribution, cost revitalization and overall IT
expenditure.
Cost catalog and standard invoice templates cover the needs
for pay-per-use, chargeback, cost based on elapsed/
concurrent/average, etc., and cost based on individual
features or feature sets.
IT CHARGEBACK/SHOWBACK
With Open iT, you can accurately charge internal users,
groups, departments and business units for use of software
based on actual usage.

6. IT CHARGEBACK / PAY-PER-USE
Which license agreement is best for you?
ENABLE PAY-PER-USE
Companies with expensive software licenses stand to gain
the most by keeping an eye on usage monitoring. The
Pay-per-use model provides options to enter into a more
flexible agreement with core vendors:
• Base payment for access + extra payment for use
• No base, only pay for usage
• Base payment includes “free” usage up to a limit
Usage is metered as a function of elapsed time, number of distinct users
or devices, number of concurrent users or devices, or combinations.

7. INCREASE TECHNOLOGY UPTAKE
Do you have IT metrics that adds value to your
business?
When a company decides to switch to a new core business
technology, software application monitoring is an integral
part of a robust implementation program that can be used
to determine the program’s effectiveness, measure KPIs and
reduce the loss of productivity during the transition.
License Usage Metrics
Continuously monitoring license usage throughout the
program, not just at the beginning and the end, will give the
implementation team a real-time dashboard on which to see
how well the program is progressing.
It is important that the metering tool can calculate true global
concurrency, even if the licenses are served locally, to get a correct picture
of your true global license needs.

8. IMPROVE USER EFFICIENCY
Can you reduce IT costs and enhance productivity
at the same time?
Open iT also delivers a complete software audit for license
portfolio management, enables performance improvements
by documenting best practices and identify undesirable
usage patterns.
A heat map report shows the data where the individual values
contained in a matrix are represented as colors. The busiest hours for
certain license use will show up as red, while the least busy will be
green.
Measures CPU,
memory and I/O
usage by different
application, users,
machines, etc.,
permitting fine-
tuning of machine
capacity and charge-
by-use accounting
for a variety of
system-wide IT
functions.

9. STAY COMPLIANT
Are you prepared for your next software licensing
audit?
Open iT software can help managers get more value from
software vendors by providing detailed knowledge of
current user patterns of applications, to use as leverage
when negotiating future software agreements.
Compare the usage by location, region or department vs.
overall license usage. Identify named users who are not
fully utilizing their assigned licenses, and document optimal
ways to distribute and allocate licenses.
This report performs a global usage analysis of a certain feature
which doesn’t reach the maximum utilization of concurrent licenses.
There is no need to have much headroom in your licenses, unless you
expect to grow dramatically. You can remix, trade in or re-negotiate
the contract, based on accurate usage data.

10. FLEXIBLE AND POWERFUL REPORTING
Interactive Real-time View
View actual license check-outs, user details and most utilized
features.
Excel Dashboard
Work with templates and create your own instant ad-hoc
reports.

11. CUSTOMER CORNER BURLINGTON RESOURCES
Business Challenge
Reduce annual software costs and improve the teams’
synergy and global sharing of information.
Open iT Solution
The customer invested in Open iT LicenseAnalyzerTM and
saved $5 million on software costs in two years by
harvesting unused and under-utilized software.
• 36% reduction on the first year
• Additional 19% reduction on the second year
Using Open iT, Burlington Resources
identified a business value improvement
20 times higher than that of the IT savings
alone.

12. www.openit.com
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