Open iT software Usage Metering and IT Optimization Solutions Brochure
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Open iT is a global software company that provides usage metering and optimization solutions to help customers analyze and optimize their IT asset usage. Their core solutions include software and asset management, IT chargeback, capacity and performance planning. Open iT's software is deployed at over 50 Fortune 500 companies to provide centralized visibility of global software usage, increase technology adoption, harvest unused licenses, improve efficiency and stay compliant with licenses.
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 HOUSTON PHILIPPINES GERMANY Two Park Ten Place Doña Aurora Blvd., Im Neuenbühl 7 16300 Katy Freeway Brgy. Gulang-Gulang, D-71287 Weissach, Houston, Texas 77094, USA Lucena City 4301, PHILIPPINES GERMANY Phone: 281-599-3400 Phone: +63 42 710 8566 Phone: +49 7152 Fax: 707-760-4575 307090-0 OSLO STAVANGER OPEN IT, INC. Karoline Kristiansens v. 5 P.O. Box 265 info@openit.com N-0661 Oslo, NORWAY N-4066 Stavanger, NORWAY Phone: +47 22 20 40 50 Phone: +47 51 64 09 80 Open iT and the Open iT logo are registered trademarks of Open iT, Inc. References from Burlington Resources used with permission. Other branches are copyright of their respective owners, and are mentioned for reference only. Specifications subject to change. © 2013 Open iT, Inc. All rights reserved.