Global Leader in Usage Metering and Optimization

Open iT delivers solutions within software and asset management, IT chargeback, capacity and performance planning. We enable our customers to optimize their information technology assets by metering how resources are used, providing a tool for analyzing usage and the expertise for software optimization.

Why do you need us?Getting a better view of how your costly IT resources are being used throughout the organization will help you make better decisions, develop accurate budget, reduce bottleneck and improve efficiency.

Open iT’s software solution is the most flexible and powerful usage monitoring tool available, and is currently deployed at more than 50 Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

INCREASE TECHNOLOGY UPTAKE

IMPROVE USER EFFICIENCY

STAY COMPLIANT

ENABLE PAY-PER-USE

CENTRALIZED VIEW OF GLOBAL USAGE

HARVEST UNUSED LICENSES

ALIGN IT WITH BUSINESS

IT CHARGEBACK/SHOWBACK

CORE SOLUTIONS

Our software serves as a global hub for collection and distribution of usage data, placed in the middle of your environment. Open iT software is platform-independent, and can support devices even outside the firewall in which the data collected is uploaded automatically once an offline device gets online.

Open iT also integrates with other enterprise solutions, such as AD/LDAP and Microsoft SMS/SCCM, in order to provide more detailed usage data to the business.

Open iT is cloud-ready, and enables metered usage agreements for cloud providers and their customers.

How does Open iT Software keep track of your assets?

GLOBAL IT ASSET USAGE

SUPPORTED*LICENSE MANAGERS

• Abaqus• Animator• Beta LM• DSLS• Elan• Enterprise Architect LM• FLEXlm/FlexNet• Green Hills• HQMS• IBM LUM• LM-X• LS-Dyna• MathLM• NetHASP• Parasoft• Reprise• Sentinel RMS• SlickEdit• STI• Vector

* Other License Managers can be supported upon request.

Are you spending too much on unused software applications?Costly licensed applications, if not in real use, lead to resource waste. Open iT software gives you an enterprise-wide view of software license usage, from corporate down to a single user. With Open iT, you can get highly targeted, automated license management by: (1) discovering applications not in use, (2) distinguishing underutilized applications and, (3) redeploying unused licenses to active users working on high priority projects.

HARVEST UNUSED LICENSES

Compare total and active max concurrent usage of an application. Is there a need to harvest inactive licenses?

How to value and justify IT expenditures?Aligning IT with business strategy boils down to how business unit managers make decisions about financing resource distribution, cost revitalization and overall IT expenditure.

Cost catalog and standard invoice templates cover the needs for pay-per-use, chargeback, cost based on elapsed/concurrent/average, etc., and cost based on individual features or feature sets.

IT CHARGEBACK/SHOWBACKWith Open iT, you can accurately charge internal users, groups, departments and business units for use of software based on actual usage.

ALIGN IT WITH BUSINESS

Which license agreement is best for you?

ENABLE PAY-PER-USECompanies with expensive software licenses stand to gain the most by keeping an eye on usage monitoring. The Pay-per-use model provides options to enter into a more flexible agreement with core vendors: • Base payment for access + extra payment for use • No base, only pay for usage • Base payment includes “free” usage up to a limit

IT CHARGEBACK / PAY-PER-USE

Usage is metered as a function of elapsed time, number of distinct users or devices, number of concurrent users or devices, or combinations.

INCREASE TECHNOLOGY UPTAKE

Do you have IT metrics that adds value to your business? When a company decides to switch to a new core business technology, software application monitoring is an integral part of a robust implementation program that can be used to determine the program’s effectiveness, measure KPIs and reduce the loss of productivity during the transition.

License Usage MetricsContinuously monitoring license usage throughout the program, not just at the beginning and the end, will give the implementation team a real-time dashboard on which to see how well the program is progressing.

It is important that the metering tool can calculate true global concurrency, even if the licenses are served locally, to get a correct picture of your true global license needs.

IMPROVE USER EFFICIENCY

A heat map report shows the data where the individual values contained in a matrix are represented as colors. The busiest hours for certain license use will show up as red, while the least busy will be green.

Can you reduce IT costs and enhance productivity at the same time?Open iT also delivers a complete software audit for license portfolio management, enables performance improvements by documenting best practices and identify undesirable usage patterns.

Measures CPU, memory and I/O usage by different application, users, machines, etc., permitting fine-tuning of machine capacity and charge-by-use accounting for a variety of system-wide IT functions.

STAY COMPLIANT

This report performs a global usage analysis of a certain featurewhich doesn’t reach the maximum utilization of concurrent licenses.

There is no need to have much headroom in your licenses, unless youexpect to grow dramatically. You can remix, trade in or re-negotiatethe contract, based on accurate usage data.

Are you prepared for your next software licensing audit? Open iT software can help managers get more value from software vendors by providing detailed knowledge of current user patterns of applications, to use as leverage when negotiating future software agreements.

Compare the usage by location, region or department vs.overall license usage. Identify named users who are notfully utilizing their assigned licenses, and document optimalways to distribute and allocate licenses.

Interactive Real-time ViewView actual license check-outs, user details and most utilized features.

FLEXIBLE AND POWERFUL REPORTING

Excel DashboardWork with templates and create your own instant ad-hoc reports.

BURLINGTON RESOURCES CUSTOMER CORNER

Open iT SolutionThe customer invested in Open iT LicenseAnalyzerTM and saved $5 million on software costs in two years by harvesting unused and under-utilized software. • 36% reduction on the first year • Additional 19% reduction on the second year

Using Open iT, Burlington Resources identified a business value improvement 20 times higher than that of the IT savings alone.

Business ChallengeReduce annual software costs and improve the teams’ synergy and global sharing of information.

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