Compliance in the Realm of Engineering Software
For most software applications, such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), compliance is the main driver for companies to implement a software asset management…
For most software applications, such as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), compliance is the main driver for companies to implement a software asset management…
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Autodesk® has been a great partner for design, engineering, simulation, and technical companies around the globe. The demand…
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LM-X License Manager is one of the premium products of X-Formation – a company based on Aarhus, Denmark with extended offices…
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Autodesk® is one of the most popular and widely used engineering, design, and simulation software in the world. They offer a variety of products used in visualization…
Autodesk offers different types of licenses as well as different packages for their products, one of which was Autodesk Suites. Although the Suites are no longer available for…
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Reprise License Manager (RLM) is a license management tool that offers an efficient and optimized way of controlling license usage
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Dassault Systemes (3DS) provides specific pricing structures for its products. The pricing structure is the basis of the specifications of
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SAP licensing is widely regarded as one of the most complex models of all major software vendors. The yearly costs of SAP licenses continue to increase…
The rising cost of engineering software prompted GSFC to search for a solution that would allow them to determine whether software licenses were being used effectively…
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