Engineering License Reporting Integration
Engineering License Inventory and Usage Monitoring
If you are a software company with helpdesk, SAM or other service-oriented products, you probably already know how important it is to customers that use engineering software to know their engineering software inventory and usage patterns. Their need for that information is easy to understand. When a license costs many thousands of dollars and not infrequently 5-figure costs per seat, unused licenses are a liability and knowing about them can save the organization large sums of money. On the other hand, a shortage of licenses can carry even greater costs if engineers are stuck waiting for a concurrent license to become available. In short, managing engineering licenses properly translates to big money for user organizations.
Obtaining this information requires a deep understanding of license manager technology that SAM and helpdesk software lacks. This however is the core business of OpenLM and by integrating OpenLM you can add engineering license reporting capabilities to your software product and bring significant ROI to your customers.
Benefits to the IT Vendor
By providing reports on engineering license inventory and usage, you get:
- Powerful added functionality in your core product that has clear ROI for your customer
- A source of additional revenue
- Up-sale potential from your existing customers
- A competitive advantage over other solutions that do not have an engineering license reporting capability
- A set of ready-build components that quickly integrate into your products with minimal effort
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Benefits to Your Customer
- They get the option of receiving critical reporting on engineering licenses from their existing SAM or helpdesk software
- They get to know about unused licenses
- They can reduce denials of service for engineering applications due to unavailable licenses
- They can optimize their license inventory and get their user-to-license ratios right
- They get a fully documented pattern of usage to justify purchasing additional licenses when necessary
- Above all they reduce engineering software license spend AND reduce unnecessary project delays
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Your Solution for Engineering Licenses
OpenLM is a complete end-to-end software system for the monitoring, reporting, optimization, auditing and management of the engineering software licenses in an organization. Aside from being a stand-alone system, there are a number of methods by which OpenLM expert software components can be integrated into other software systems. These are described below.
Icon or Link in Your UI
- You place an icon or link on your application’s screen
- When your user clicks on the link, OpenLM is run in a new browser window
- Your user gets access to all engineering license inventory and usage reports through the full OpenLM system
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Pop-up Information Windows
- You place icons, links or menu items on your application’s screen
- When your users click on the links, the appropriate report is displayed in a new browser window
- Your user gets access to selected engineering license inventory and usage reports according to context to define
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UI Integration Using API
- You build engineering license output fields into your UI, according to your system design
- You execute the OpenLM API to receive the appropriate information from OpenLM database
- You take the appropriate engineering license information from the API and place it in your screen fields
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Database Extraction
- You build engineering license output fields into your UI, according to your system design
- You execute the OpenLM API to receive the appropriate information from the OpenLM database
- You save the information in your own database
- You take the appropriate engineering license information from your database and place it in your screen fields
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How it Works
- You decide on the level of integration you want in your product
- You offer your customers the additional functionality of engineering license reporting to you customer base as an optional extra
- Your system can be on-premise or cloud-based
- You can integrate with OpenLM on the cloud or on premise at your customer
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