Metering Software Usage Enables Right-Sizing of Licenses and License Matching of Entitlements to Users
A large industrial conglomerate involved with, among other things, energy and light metals, wanted to assess how its computer resources were being used, in order to better manage its IT expenditures. With a complex IT infrastructure distributed in multiple sites around the globe, getting a system-wide overview of its resource usage patterns and needs seemed a formidable task. Read further to see how they reduced license costs by 30%.
Management was aware that accurate and comprehensive knowledge of IT and usage patterns could potentially yield enormous savings for software licenses alone. One problem area of increasing costs was in database software. Worldwide, the company had around 30 different license agreements with their database suppliers. These agreements were based upon estimated usage, while actual user statistics remained unknown.
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The license you need is checked out, not used ServiceNow’s engineering license management documentation puts it in one line: “When the user exits the application, the license returns to the pool.” An idle session never exits, so its license stays
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