Industries

Engineering license management by industry

Open iT meters how engineering and technical software licenses are used, by user and feature, in six industries: automotive, aerospace and defense, energy, mining, engineering and manufacturing, semiconductor, and government, education and research. It reads license managers, license servers and workstations, covers more than 6,000 applications, and has metered engineering software since 1999.

The license problem changes from one industry to the next. A carmaker is choosing between perpetual and subscription. A defense program runs on a network with no internet connection. A chip design team pays per feature, not per seat.

Choose your industry

Automotriz

Perpetual or subscription? See which CAD and CAE seats to keep, convert or drop before the vendor’s offer arrives.

CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, Creo, Abaqus, Ansys, MATLAB

Engineering software license management for automotive

Aerospace & Defense

Enterprise network, connected program subnetworks and closed areas: Open iT meters each where it sits, within your security governance.

Ansys, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS

Engineering software asset management for aerospace and defense

Energía

Renew reservoir, drilling, process and power software on your own usage record, not the vendor’s.

Petrel, tNavigator, PetEx (PROSPER, GAP, MBAL), Halliburton suite, AVEVA, ETAP

Engineering software license management for energy

Engineering & Manufacturing

How many licenses do your engineers actually need, and which project should pay for them?

Autodesk, Bentley, Trimble Tekla, AVEVA, Hexagon SmartPlant, Siemens NX

Engineering software license management for engineering and manufacturing firms

Semiconductor & EDA

One tool launch is a dozen feature checkouts. Measure EDA licenses by feature and token, across every design center.

Tools served by FlexNet, RLM, LM-X and DSLS

EDA license management

Government, Education & Research

The evidence behind the license budget you submit: what was used, what wasn’t, and what the next cycle needs.

CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, Creo, Abaqus, Ansys, MATLAB

Software license budget justification for government, education and research

What stays the same in every industry

Open iT works in three steps, and you can stop at any of them.

Alongside that, CLIMS™ gives your administrators one console for every license server, with server-down and denial alerts. LicensePlanner™ charges software cost to the project, program or department that used it. Open iT runs on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid, and is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022.

1. Who held a license, and when.

Open iT reads your license servers every hour, at five-minute sample intervals. This is the record the license manager already writes. Open iT calls it Level 1.

2. Whether anyone has been using the license.

A checked-out license isn’t a used one. Open iT checks keyboard, mouse, processor and input/output activity on the workstation, so you see active time against checkout time. This is Level 2, True Active Usage.

3. Getting idle licenses back (license harvesting).

Open iT can log, put on standby, suspend or close an idle session on FlexLM, LM-X, LUM and RLM. Suspend is the usual choice: the engineer’s work stays on screen and the license goes back to the pool. This is Level 3.

Questions people ask

Does Open iT work the same way in every industry?

The measurement is the same: license server record, active use on the workstation, and reclaiming idle licenses. What changes is the deployment and the report.

Can Open iT use the license history we already have?

For many applications, yes. Open iT can read the license logs you already keep, so your usage history starts before the install. Bring two numbers: how many seats you own and when the next renewal is due.

What is the difference between a license checked out and a license used?

A checkout is recorded when the application starts and released when it closes. Everything in between counts, including hours the tool sat open unattended. True Active Usage separates the two by measuring keyboard, mouse, processor and input/output activity on the workstation during the checkout.

Which applications and license managers does Open iT support?

Coverage depends on the license manager you run. Open iT meters more than 6,000 applications across 100 named license manager configurations, including FlexNet, RLM, LM-X and DSLS. Tell us which managers you run and we'll confirm coverage against your estate.

Does Open iT replace our SAM platform?

No. Open iT measures the engineering and technical license estate. Entitlements, purchase orders and allocation workflows stay in your SAM platform. The two join through the ServiceNow integration, and reports also go to Power BI, Excel or Tableau.

Next step

Choose how you want to evaluate Open iT:

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Prueba acelerada de la nube

Set it up yourself with your own FlexNet license data and see Open iT dashboards hands-on.

Prueba de concepto

Open iT monitors selected license servers and applications in your own environment, and you get a findings report.

Demostración del valor

A full usage and cost analysis that ends in a documented ROI and savings case.

Qué incluye cada evaluación

Compara el esfuerzo de configuración, el alcance de la implantación, los productos incluidos y los resultados esperados.

Incluido Limitado Not available
Comparison of the Fast-Track Cloud Trial, Proof of Concept, and Proof of Value
Criterios Prueba acelerada de la nube Prueba de concepto Demostración del valor
Coste y configuración
Opción gratuita
Utiliza tus datos reales
Configuración de autoservicio
Open iTconfiguración con LED
Implementación
En las propias instalaciones
Nube
Funcionalidades disponibles para su evaluación
Medición del uso en tiempo de ejecución (Nivel 1)
Análisis del uso activo frente al inactivo (Nivel 2)
Recopilación automatizada de licencias (Nivel 3)
Otros módulos de « Open iT »
Complementos e integraciones de costes
Resultados
Informe de conclusión del proyecto, con recomendaciones incluidas
Datos y conclusiones sobre el uso
Informe de análisis del retorno de la inversión y del ahorro
Productos disponibles
LicenseAnalyzer Nivel 1
LicenseAnalyzer Nivel 2
LicenseAnalyzer Nivel 3
ComputeAnalyzer
StorageAnalyzer
CLIMS
LicensePredictor
LicensePlanner
Servicios detallados incluidos
Guía paso a paso / Formación básica
Sesiones de consulta
Formación avanzada
Informe de conclusión del proyecto, con recomendaciones incluidas
Informe de análisis del retorno de la inversión y del ahorro
El alcance de la prueba «Fast-Track Cloud» se limita a los servidores de licencias FlexNet para una rápida configuración en modo autoservicio.

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