The document discusses IBM's various software licensing metrics, including authorized user, concurrent user, floating user, user value unit, install, processor value unit, server, virtual server, and client device. It provides examples of different data discovery solutions and their capabilities. Finally, it notes that IBM currently offers software under approximately nine different metrics and that the more complex the metric, the more expensive the product.

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IBM: Technical Fundamentals
for Discovery & and Effects on
Other Vendor’s Metrics

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• Authorized User
• Install
• IBM Processor Value Unit (PVU)
• Floating User
• Application Instance
• Processor Day
• Server
• Authorized User Value Unit
• Managed Chassis
• Processor
• Tivoli Management Point
• Resource Value Unit
• Server Install
• Establishment
• Client Device
• Floating User Single Install
• Employee User Value Unit
• Value Unit
• Concurrent User
• Device
• Virtual Server
• Core
• Desktop
• Managed Server
• Feed
• Authorized User Single Install
• Registered User
• Capacity Unit
• User
• Named User
• Connection
• IBM SubCapacity Processor Value Unit (PVU)
• User Value Unit
• Service Units per Hour
• Token
• Collaboration
• Concurrent Session
• Core Install
• External User Value Unit
• Base CPU
• Connector
• Client
• Application
• Terabyte
• Simultaneous Session
• Limited Use Socket
• Appliance Install
• Additional CPU
• Printer
• Managed CPU
• Managed Virtual Server
• Storage Device
• Floating User Single Session Single Install
• Order Lines
• IBM Processor Value Unit (PVU) with Dual Staging
• Web Server
• Node
• Limited Use Authorized User
• IBM SubCapacity Processor Value Unit (PVU) with
Single Staging
• Floating User Single Session
• monthly Order Request
• Asset
• SubCapacity Processor
• Disk Drive
• Limited Use Virtual Server
• Port
• Host Server
• Page
• User CAL
• Reporting User
• Switch
• Developer
• Stores
• IBM Processor Value Unit (PVU) with Single Staging
• Square Feet
• CAL
• Incident
• Rack
• Application Establishment
• Concurrent Stream
• Authorized User Single Session
• 1 Million Order Lines
• CPU Socket
• Node Locked
• Square Meters
• Mailbox
• Terminal
• Machine Value Unit
• IBM PVU
• IBM SubCapacity Processor Value Unit (PVU) with Dual
Staging
Sum as of today: 90
Source: Aspera SmartTrack
What is a metric?

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What is a metric?
• Of ~800 metrics that we have come across ~88% is generic 1:1
• IBM uses ~74% generic and ~22% PVU-based metrics
• The more complex the metric the more expensive the product
IBM currently offers
software under
approximately nine
different metrics:
• Authorized User
• Concurrent User
• Floating User
• User Value Unit (UVU)
• Install
• Processor Value Unit
(PVU)
• Server
• Virtual Server
• Client Device
• Resource Value Unit
(RVU)

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Data Discovery
• Various solutions with particular different scopes/capabilities
• Agent-based vs. agent-less
• Configurable (plugins, pattern, adapters) vs. static
• Discovery vs. full inventory

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Data Discovery
Google images for “IBM TAD4D” :-)

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7
3
Implementation Techniques
D: Licenses
T: File
Excel/CSV
3
D: Users
T: LDAP
ADS
7.1
D: Data
T: Technology
System
ID
D: Systems,
Software
T: DB
SCCM
2.2

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D: Licenses
T: SAP query
SAP
2
1
D: Systems,
Software
T: DB
IBM Tad4D
D: Systems,
Software
T: DB
SCCM
D: Systems,
Software
T: DB
Altiris
D: Systems
T: DB
USU Valuemation
D: Systems,
Software
T: DB
Novell ZEN
2.2
2.1
2.3
2.5 2.4
4
D: DMS
T: HTTPS (API)
IXOS
5
5.2
D: Requests
T: SOAP
(Connect-IT)
HP
D: Requests
T: File
BMC
6.2
D: Users
T: LDAP
eDirectory
7.2
8
D: Data
T: Technology
System
D: Users,
Cost Centers
T: File
SAP HR
7
D: Licenses
T: File
Excel/CSV
3
6
D: Users
T: LDAP
ADS
7.1
D: DMS
T: HTTPS (API)
SAP Archive
5.1
D: Catalog
T: OCI
SAP SRM
1 6.14
3
ID
8
Implementation Techniques

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Active collection of
the necessary data
from the sources with
an import connector
Asset management
systems (e.g. HPAM,
SCCM), Database,
Table, or remote
directories (through
S/FTP, SCP, ODB, etc.)
Transformation
of the data
using Import
Pre-Processors
(IPP) or Import
Templates if
the data is not
in the correct
format
Loading the
data in Aspera
SmartTrack;
the import load
is configurable
in the Import
Control
Processor (ICP)
Extract Transform Load
Implementation Techniques

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Environmental Complexity

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Environmental Complexity

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Environmental Complexity

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Environmental Complexity

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Data Processing

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Data Processing

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Data Processing

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Data Processing

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Effects on Other Vendors

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Effects on Other Vendors

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Questions?

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Christof Beaupoil
E-Mail: beaupoil@aspera.com
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