Altair License Manager (ALM), in combination with Altair InsightPro for License Analytics (the successor of Altair SAO), helps organizations ensure that Altair engineering and simulation applications are available to users across the organization. These tools handle the core task of license distribution and usage tracking under Altair’s flexible Altair Units (AU) model.
To optimize Altair licenses effectively, organizations must go beyond tracking usage to understand behavioral patterns, detect inefficiencies, and align license investments precisely with operational demand.
Common Licensing Dynamics in Altair Environments
Organizations leveraging Altair software often encounter complex usage scenarios and operational factors that require deeper insight for effective license management.
Granularity of Usage Data
High-level reporting provides an overview of license consumption, but detailed analysis of feature-level usage, individual user behavior, or project-specific allocation is often required to fully understand consumption patterns.
Complexity in Altair Units (AU) Allocation
The Altair Units model—where consumption rates vary by tool, feature, and usage concurrency—adds complexity to license rightsizing. Without accurate AU attribution and consumption mapping, teams risk over- or under-provisioning licenses.
License Availability and Access Efficiency
Monitoring active versus inactive sessions and concurrent usage patterns is critical to ensuring licenses are efficiently utilized and accessible to users when needed.
Distributed and Hybrid Deployment Considerations
Enterprises running Altair licenses in hybrid, multi-site environments require centralized oversight. Monitoring Altair Units consumption across on-prem and cloud resources can become a blind spot without extended analytics capabilities.
Reporting and Analytics Flexibility
While Altair InsightPro offers valuable reporting, expanding analytic capabilities through customizable reporting and integration with enterprise BI tools can provide enhanced strategic insights.
License Harvesting and Optimization Practices
Remote session management helps recover licenses, but automated, policy-driven optimization can further improve license availability without manual intervention.
Without granular, cross-platform visibility into license usage, organizations may find it challenging to align license availability with actual demand—potentially leading to underutilized assets, budget inefficiencies, or delayed access during peak periods.
This is where Open iT steps in.
Open iT enhances existing license management solutions by delivering the analytical depth and scalability needed to address these challenges proactively.
How Open iT Augments Altair License Manager
Open iT, through its flagship solution LicenseAnalyzer™, augments Altair’s native license management by enabling high-resolution usage monitoring and advanced data aggregation at scale.
Key technical advantages provided by Open iT include:
Multi-Dimensional Usage Analysis
License usage data is structured across multiple dimensions—such as project, department, location, and time zone—enabling stakeholders to generate targeted reports and analyze consumption patterns from various operational perspectives. This approach supports more informed decision-making around license optimization and redistribution.
Customizable and Flexible Reporting Framework
The platform supports dynamic report generation via drag-and-drop interfaces and integrates seamlessly with leading BI tools such as Power BI and Tableau. This enables complex data visualizations and trend analyses essential for strategic decision-making in license procurement and deployment.
Accurate Concurrency Measurement
Open iT applies proprietary algorithms that merge raw usage data collected at the most granular level to derive accurate concurrency values. Unlike approaches that aggregate peak values across dimensions—leading to inflated metrics—Open iT calculates true concurrency even when data is grouped by product, geography, or time zone.
Support for Distributed and Cloud-Managed Environment
Open iT supports a wide range of traditional and third-party cloud-based license managers, providing comprehensive visibility across hybrid enterprise environments. This includes compatibility with Altair License Manager, Altair InsightPro, and the legacy Altair SAO.
Enhanced Chargeback and Audit Support
Open iT provides advanced capabilities that streamline internal chargeback processes, delivering clear visibility into license usage costs. These chargeback features play a critical role in supporting audit readiness by ensuring transparent cost allocation and traceable usage records
Scalable Across Engineering Toolsets
Open iT is engineered to operate as a vendor-agnostic license management and analytics platform—capable of extending beyond Altair License Manager and Altair InsightPro to support a broad spectrum of license managers and other engineering, simulation, CAD, and CAE applications.
This unified framework eliminates the inefficiencies of managing software assets in silos, enabling a centralized strategy for monitoring, optimizing, and forecasting license utilization across the entire software estate.
Trusted by Engineering Leaders in Demanding Industries
Leading firms in aerospace, automotive, energy, electronics, and advanced manufacturing rely on Open iT to optimize Altair licenses and manage enterprise-scale software environments. These organizations benefit from reduced software spend, improved license availability, stronger compliance, and data-driven renewal strategies—all supported by Open iT’s technical depth and scalability.
A Smarter Approach to Altair License Management
Teams facing questions like:
- Are Altair Units being over-allocated or underutilized?
- Can current data support an informed renewal or expansion plan?
- How can access be improved without increasing costs?
…can benefit from deeper operational visibility and a more analytical approach to license optimization.
With Open iT, organizations can optimize Altair licenses using precise, actionable data—delivering the right software to the right users at the right time, and at the right cost.
Contact Open iT and let’s talk. Discover what deeper visibility can unlock for your organization.
