Getting the Most Out of Your Embarcadero Licenses

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Getting the Most Out of Your Embarcadero Licenses

Presented by:

Scott Walz- Director of Software Consultants

Kyle Edens- Sr. Account Executive

Ryan McNitzky- Sr. Account Executive

EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES

Agenda

• Introductions

• Product Licensing at Embarcadero Technologies

• What Options do I have?

• Why Move?

• How can I tell what’s right for me?


Poll Questions


Product Licensing at Embarcadero

• 1993 – Nodelock (tied to specific machine)

• 1998 – Introduced Concurrent Licensing/License Server

• 2008 – Introduced Embarcadero Developer Network

• 2008 – Introduced Network Named Licenses


Workstation Licenses

• Why workstation licenses?

• The benefits of Workstation licenses

• Managing Workstation licenses


Why Workstation Licenses

• Best option for single purchase

• License is tied to a single user

• The user *always* has a license


Managing Workstation Licenses


Managing Workstation Licenses


Pain Points

A License Model to Fit Usage Needs and Managing Operational Costs

Workstation licenses are great for teams of less than a handful of people, but become difficult to manage when used in a larger, distributed team environment. This leads to the following problems:

Difficulties in knowing which user has which license (and if that user is still with the organization).

Difficulties in keeping track of serial numbers. Spreadsheets, emails and other methods of management result in “tribal knowledge” that isn’t easily shared but is easily lost.

Submitting tickets to the Embarcadero support team whenever a license needs to be transferred.

Without a centralized license management function, it is more difficult to ascertain which licenses are available to use, often leading to unnecessary renewals of older, outdated licenses

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Manage Operational Expenses Over Time

• An inordinate amount of support and maintenance paid on older licenses that are

no longer used.

• Uncertainty in budgeting for future license growth needs?

• How many will you need?

• What is the most appropriate type of license/structure to meet said need?

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What Options do I have?

• Network Name User

• Concurrent User


Why Move?

• License Standardization

• License Right-Sizing

• License Usage Reporting


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Before - Workstation

• 150+ workstation licenses of ER/Studio, DBArtisan, Rapid SQL, Change Manager

• Trouble tracking serial numbers in Excel – who has it? Still in use? Which version?

• Constant contact with EMBT support team tracking down serial numbers, increase

registrations after machine re-imaging, etc.

• All different database platforms

• Operational expenses skyrocketed

Success Story


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After - Concurrent

• Moved to multi-platform concurrent licenses of various tools

• All licenses now managed in ELC – usage reports allows for control of who’s using which license

• No more support tickets for transferring licenses or finding serials

• All database platforms continued to be supported

• Operational expenses under control

• Happy customer!

The Results


How can I tell what’s right for me?

• Setup a license consultation to:

• Understanding your current Product/License configuration

• Understand your usage rate and user type


Questions/Answers


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Next steps checklist…

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