“Open iT usage reporting has enabled us to make detailed business decisions, optimize applications with minimal effort and significantly reduce annual software expenditures.”
Chiyoda Philippines Corporation (CPh), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chiyoda Corporation in Yokohama, Japan, one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world. CPh is primarily engaged in engineering design serving the requirements of Chiyoda Corporation, which is presently undertaking engineering, procurement, construction and other related facilities development work for their customers in gas processing, petroleum refining, and other petrochemical products. With a wealth of experience in its area of expertise, CPh has become a competitive engineering service contractor responsible for the development of refineries and other related projects in the country.
The company gathered and integrated user license information across multiple departments for its annual IT Budget Plan. It had always been a challenge collecting such data because the majority of license cost was only based on the request of users and managers. Also, the huge manual effort involved in obtaining an accurate licensing position was error-prone and tedious. With an increasing number of licenses to manage, it had become a big challenge to reduce cost and eliminate idle applications wherever possible.
CPh realized that there was a growing need to produce reliable and accurate software usage reports with the use of a tool that would help the company:
Software license reports offer valuable insights into how individual users, in particular, and the whole organization, in general, utilize some of the company’s most expensive assets: software licenses. Generating the right license reports is a very crucial step in the software license management (SLM) and optimization process. Without accurate and appropriate reports, it would be
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