LicenseWatch Metering Passive

LicenseWatch Metering Passive lets the administrator monitor in real time which applications are being used and maybe more important which applications have not been used for a period of time. Reports based on software usage will immediately tell the organization where to upgrade, make further investments or cancelling software maintenance.

Software usage analysis is the only effective method to secure cost savings on the software budget.

All analysis point to the fact that many companies have a tendency to overbuy software licenses to stay compliance. According to Meta Group “There are savings of 5-15% of your total software budget to be gained from good SAM Practice”

LicenseWatch Metering Passive gives the company a superior way to make the right decision about which software investments the company needs to make now, which could be postponed or simply avoided to buy at all.

This example below illustrates software usage of software use analysis which was made with LicenseWatch Metering Passive for a mid-size bank.

The bank have 1000 PC workstations and expects that they overbuy software licenses. The Bank do not have a solution to enable them to monitor the actually software usage. In January 2006 the company invested in LicenseWatch because it has come to their attention that there might be in-adequate number of used software licenses in the organization.

The analysis preformed by LicenseWatch showed that the Bank in 47% of all cases could have used a Microsoft Office Standard instead of a Microsoft Office Professional.

470 users (47 percent) did not use Microsoft Access. With this information the Bank postponed all investments in Microsoft Office licenses to 2007.

LicenseWatch Metering Passive benefits:

• Advanced software usage statistics.
• Real time analysis of unutilized software applications.
• Tracks back in real time the software usage.
• With LicenseWatch Integration for Active Directory Metering rules can be setup for each individual segments.
• With LicenseWatch Notification, the software administrator will automaticly be notified when an application not have been used for a longer period of time.
• When using LicenseWatch Metering Passive on top of a SMS 2003 installation, LicenseWatch SMS Option will support unloading/uninstallation of software which have been unutilized for a longer period of time. Rules for uninstalling software are done from the LicenseWatch FrameWork.

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