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Software Usage Monitoring and Optimization
Learn how usage monitoring in an E&P IT environment can be beneficial for many stakeholders; executives and IT management, individual users, and also providers to the industry.
Many of you are asked to do more with less: Invest in new technology with a shrinking software budget or cover more tasks with fewer resources. Many of you have a security focus. All of you are high-end users of technology, with little tolerance for denials and bad performance of your systems. And finally, many of you provide software or services and you want the end-users to have as much value from your delivery as possible. In that way they will be your long term customer.
Let us show you how:
- To benefit from monitoring information technology resource usage in your environment or at your customer site. Metering matters and what you can expect to accomplish with metering.
- The business cases of an E&P organizations clearly benefited from implementing an IT usage monitoring.
- The common obstacles of getting started and give you some advice on what to look for and how to move forward with usage monitoring.
Latest Blogs
Concurrent License Usage: What You Need to Know
Concurrent software licensing is widely used in engineering and technical software environments where applications are shared across large teams. While this model improves access to specialized tools, it can also make it harder to understand how licenses are actually used. Many organizations rely on anecdotal peak usage, vendor estimates, or isolated denial events rather than consistent historical
SaaS Cost Optimization Through License Usage Data Analysis
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has become the foundation of modern enterprise application environments. Across industries, organizations are shifting from perpetual software licenses toward subscription-based delivery models that enable rapid deployment, continuous updates, and flexible scalability. However, this shift introduces a new operational challenge: managing SaaS spend in environments where license consumption is difficult to measure. Industry analysts project that
From Subnets to Air-Gapped Sites: Building Unified License Visibility Across Disconnected Networks
Government, aerospace, and defense engineering organizations rarely operate within a single, unified network environment. Most operate across intentionally segmented environments built to meet strict security, regulatory, and mission requirements. These may include enterprise IT networks, isolated engineering subnets, classified and air-gapped systems, GovCloud deployments, and regional installations with restricted or intermittent connectivity. Open iT, a certified GSA contract holder, has supported federal agencies
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