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Page 1: Open iT License Analyzer 2012, software usage monitoring tool to reduce software and IT cost

How LicenseAnalyzer™ Works: LicenseAnalyzer monitors and reports software license inventory and usage on the most commonly used license managers, such as FlexNet, IBM LUM and Sentinel, running on Linux, Unix and Windows platforms. Generate reports showing detailed ap-plication usage statistics (when, whom, how long) for all software using license managers. This tool is extremely flexible handling different data types, dimensions and resolutions.

• Analyzes software usage over time-- giving you an accurate picture of your usage.

• Automatically produces graphical or tabular reports for internal analysis

and chargeback billing.• Collects unalterable data in reports

used in vendor communications.• Maps proficiency by monitoring usage

patterns of various user groups, en-abling targeted support and training.

LicenseAnalyzer is a web-based license monitoring tool providing a complete overview of software usage across all your license servers worldwide. With simple point-and-click navigation, you can explore current software utilization for applications, hosts, users and license features from the Open iT Reporting Server web portal. Easily respond to user complaints about denials, and monitor high demand applications for their cur-rent utilization, with automatic refresh of data for true dashboard monitoring.

• Accounts for Software Usage throughout Enterprise• Reduces Software Costs by Cutting Surplus Licenses & M/S• Concurrent License Sharing over Time Zones• Justify New Software Purchases by Documenting Shortages• Increase User Productivity, Identify Best Practices

Open iT® LicenseAnalyzer™

is an essential tool for managing your software licenses.With LicenseAnalyzer you get an enterprise-wide view of your software license usage, allowing you to align purchases and maintenance to user needs.

By documenting current usage patterns by location, department, user or project, you have the information you need to optimize key areas such as support, training and vendor management.

With Open iT you can document best practices and support business process improvements at a corporate level.

Gain a complete overview of license usage across the enterprise. Discover trends, excess licenses and use LicenseAnalyzer reports to optimize deployment of expensive license resources and minimize costs.

LicenseAnalyzer™

Benefits:• Align IT software with your business

needs. Reduce expenses.• Document software license compli-

ance.• Monitor license denials and document

shortage of software licenses.• Document best practices and support

your business process improvements.• Plan your budget more proactively.• Prepare for negotiations with vendors.• Structure software license agree-

ments with license sharing across time-zones.

• Use pay-per-use agreements with software vendors.

• Monitor technology uptake and un-cover training needs.

• Analyze skill and workflow patterns.• Measure and demonstrate ROI of IT

investments.• Chargeback software costs to each

business unit.• Facilitate communication between

business units using objective reports.

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Open iT, [email protected]

Open iT Reporting ServerA push-based framework for automatic delivery of ad-hoc and predefined reports. Reports are generated daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc., and can be set up with advanced access control and automatic masking of sensitive data. Easy-to-use templates and tight integration with Excel allow for great integration with your existing workflow.

Open iT Analysis ServerAn enterprise-grade, analytical tool, aimed at high-end users and organizations with complex reporting and analytical needs. The Analysis Server provides dramatic value for an organization wanting to better view and manage their business process.By integrating global usage metrics with financial, repository, human resources and other data sources, the Analysis Server provides a streamlined workflow for business process management, optimization and reporting across the entire organization.

Powerful Reporting

An advanced access control mechanism allows secure access to sensitive data throughout all levels of the organization.

Data MaskingOn-the-fly data masking ensures that only users with correct permissions are allowed to see sensitive data such as usernames, machine-names etc.

Data Level Access ControlBeing able to limit access to data based on e.g. geographical or organizational position allows you to enable global reporting of usage, while still ensuring that e.g. regional managers have access to data for their own site. Combine this with data masking to allow one regional manager to see data for his own site, but only masked data from other sites, for instance.

Tight Security

Flexible WorkflowDirect Excel integrationAll reports can be opened in Excel: just click the Excel button on any report.

The most powerful ease-of-use Work with templates, create your own instant ad-hoc reports, or set up automatic report distribution with powerful access-control mechanisms. Reports can also be e-mailed or integrated in an intranet portal and automatically updated.

© 2012 Open iT, Inc. All rights reserved. This module overview is for informational purposes only. Please refer to owners manual and license documents for detailed functionality. Specifications are subject to change.

Open iT® is a registered trademark of Open iT, Inc. Other products, services, and brands mentioned herein are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Sample LicenseAnalyzer reports

This graph shows the aggregate hours for concurrent licenses in use. But the last few licenses have been used very little, and optimizing software use and cutting these last licenses could create savings.

LicenseAnalyzer provides an interactive view of current license utilization.

This sample report shows the users of a specific application or feature including how many licenses they have checked out simultaneously. This information allows you to cut costs by identifying users without a business reason for using multiple licenses.