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Enterprise License Optimization Solution

Maximize the Return on Your High-Value Software Investments while Maintaining Compliance

Enterprises today maintain a large number of business critical, high value software applications. Though many solutions can provide information on what software has been deployed, they often lack a clear picture of exactly what applications and specific features are in use, and to what extent. Insight into license usage can help reduce spending on unnecessary or unused software; increase productivity by giving end users access to the applications they need, when they need them; and help enterprises document usage to maintain compliance and avoid audits.

Overview

FLEXnet Manager Suite enables organizations to cut costs by gaining insight into software usage and more accurately forecasting future needs. The unmatched data quality and flexibility provided by this enterprise license optimization solution gives IT a clear and comprehensive understanding of software usage, enabling a single administrator to effectively tackle each step of the software lifecycle.

Companies today rely on a large number of business-critical applications to be productive. But without accurate usage data to guide them, businesses risk buying the wrong number of licenses leaving them either paying too much for unnecessary software or non-compliant with vendor contracts.

FLEXnet Manager Suite helps you make the most of your most valuable software. Nearly 8,000 applications are licensed with Acresso’s FLEXnet® technology, including many expensive electronic design, product lifecycle management, and geographic engineer systems applications. Only FLEXnet Manager Suite has the technology to help you manage them with confidence.

FLEXnet Manager Suite also helps you centrally monitor and analyze license usage for Enterprise Business Suites such as SAP® to help ensure accurate licensing. It can also collect detailed usage data from virtually any application, like databases or desktop applications, even when the user is offline. With this flexible framework, you can monitor usage as it relates back to your unique contract – no matter its complexity.

Control Costs with Procurement Intelligence

Analyze usage trends by business unit, geography, and more to make informed decisions within the context of contract terms, costs, and organizational structure
Take advantage of lower-cost license types and avoid shelfware spending
Negotiate flexible, cost-effective contract terms

Increase Productivity with Centralized Management

Monitor activity from multiple enterprise applications in a central view
Increase utilization while minimizing license denials and delays or overuse?
Automate manual tasks such as chargeback for use and collecting usage data

Minimize Surprise Audit Findings

Prepare vendor-ready reports mapping usage to entitlements
Accurately forecast and proactively budget for future needs
Reduce the cost and frequency of vendor audits

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FLEXnet Manager

Optimize Software Use and Spending while Complying with Vendor Agreements

FLEXnet Manager helps businesses centrally monitor, manage, and report on software usage in order to optimize use and spending by up to 30%. It simplifies license administration, reduces denials of service, and lets you more easily demonstrate compliance with vendor agreements.

Tracker

Analyze and Optimize FLEX and LUM License Usage

Tracker provides companies running FLEX and LUM applications, like CATIA, with unprecedented insight into their present software usage and their future needs. With Tracker, you have an easy way to demonstrate compliance and determine the right mix of software to purchase, support, charge back, reallocate, or retire.

License Manager for SAP Business Suite

Leverage License Usage Data to Maximize the Return on your SAP Investment

In many enterprises, SAP^® Business Suite applications are the most highly valued and widely used in the company. Without precise knowledge of license use, organizations risk duplicate users, unused licenses or misclassified users – increasing the cost of their SAP investment.

AdminStudio

One Solution for Reliable MSI Packaging, Application Virtualization, and Windows Vista Migration

AdminStudio® allows IT to quickly prepare reliable virtual and MSI packages for error-free rollout with any software deployment solution. It also provides automated tools to ensure your application portfolio will migrate smoothly to a new OS, including Windows Vista™.

Consulting

Acresso Professional Services enables customers to accelerate and increase the value they receive from their investments in Acresso solutions. Our experts average more than ten years of software entitlement, licensing, installation and packaging experience. Through subject matter expertise and proven methodology, we can help you implement existing strategies and evaluate current or potential strategies to achieve your business objectives.

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