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Software Metering & Asset Management
Company: Engagent, Inc.
Presented by: Todd Perrine
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.engagent.com
Phone: 877-820-7980
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Why Lan Licenser?
 Compliance
Lan Licenser ensures legality throughout your Enterprise.
 Reporting
Lan Licenser provides custom reporting of software usage.
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Statement of Direction
Lan Licenser provides
 Business intelligence for your computer environment
 Return on investment
 Procurement assistance
 Lower software costs
 Better management of resources
 Improved help desk assistance
 Improved people management & training
 Network communication capacity with users
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What is Software Metering?
The Ability to:
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Monitor all applications running on the network
Number of users
Types of applications
Frequency of use
Software Asset Management
 Software metering is an essential component of
Software Asset Management (SAM) designed to
reduce costs and give you control of your enterprise
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Features of Lan Licenser
 Meters all applications throughout the
Enterprise
 Applications from servers, CD’s, floppies and H/D’s
 Control applications by:
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users,
workstations,
time
groups and cost centers.
 Scalability
 Scales from a single server solution to multiple
server solution configurations
 Fault tolerant
 Low Resource Requirements
 Minimal network traffic
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Features of Lan Licenser
 Flexible metering capabilities:
Active metering
Enforce License Limits or restrict access
Passive metering Gather usage data with no restrictions
Laptop Support License check-out for laptop users
Offline metering
Active or passive metering for mobile users`
Product start-up messaging
Notify users and help desk of products not supported
Notify users of software policy, real-time
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Make Qualified Decisions on:
Software purchases
Buy the software you actually need – not what you think you need!
Maintenance agreements
Why pay for maintenance on software that is not used?
Software usage statistics
Find out what software is used the most or the least.
Future user requirements
Budget effectively for future purchases based on present trends.
Identify potential license breeches
Reduce the risk of prosecution.
Simplify organizations desktop
Standardise your corporate desktops.
Identify accurate software & support costs
What is the real cost of using particular applications?
Help desk support tool
Train help desk staff to support most used products.
Total Cost of Ownership
Reduce your TCO based on Real data!
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Eliminates Hidden Costs
Rogue /
Conflicting
DLLs
Many Vendor’s
Nonstandard
Products
Desktop
Wasted
Lack of Timely
Hardware
Usage
Resources
Information
Multiple
Help Desk
Maintenance
Complications
NO
Accountability
On Desktop
Contracts
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Save $$$ Instigate Software Asset Management
Definition: the cohesive merging of the Physical,
Financial and Contractual attributes of software to
enable the delivery of cost efficient business solutions.
Physical
•Inventory Management
•Electronic Distribution
•Version Tracking
•License Tracking
Financial
•Procurement
•Budget
Software
Asset
Management
•Cost Control
Contractual
•License Compliance
•Negotiations with Vendors
•Contract Maintenance
•Supplier Management
•Charge back
•Organizational Change
Management
•Year 2000 & beyond
Source:- Gartner Group
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Value proposition
Cost of running average corporate
PC*
Savings made through
Software Asset
12000
10000
Management
8000
6000
4000
$11,560
With no
SAM in
place
$8,860
With SAM
in place
2000
0
$
Control or Eliminate
Unwanted and
Unsupported Software
*Source Gartner Group
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Evidence of our value proposition
Average TCO
$11,580.00
$11,580.00
$11,580.00
$11,580.00
Savings made by a 30%
reduction of TCO
$3,474.00
$3,474.00
$3,474.00
$3,474.00
Numbers Of Workstations
1000
1500
2000
2500
1000
1500
2000
2500
Total Cost Per Year
$11,580,000.00
$17,370,000.00
$23,160,000.00
$28,950,000.00
$3,474,000.00
$5,211,000.00
$6,948,000.00
$8,685,000.00
Savings made by instigating Corporate Desktop Policy (source IDC)
Average Loss
$650.00
$650.00
$650.00
$650.00
Numbers Of Workstations
1000
1500
2000
2500
Potential Savings
$650,000.00
$975,000.00
$1,300,000.00
$1,625,000.00
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Research and Stats
Source – Gartner Group / IDC
Enterprises that use their SAM activities to prepare for enterprise
negotiations and supplier management will cost-justify the asset
management initiative within the first 12 months (0.7 probability).
Driven by the inadequacy of internal strategies, by 2003, 50
percent of enterprises with 2,500 or more desktops will work
with an external services provider for project-based and ongoing
asset management services (0.7 probability).
By 2003, 50 percent of enterprises with 2,500 or more desktops
will outsource one or more asset management services (0.7
probability
Through 2004, enterprises that integrate asset management
reporting tools as part of internal, financial reporting processes
will justify an ongoing asset management investment (0.8
probability).
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Inventory Plus License Metering
Gives An Accurate Picture
Inventory
What’s out there?
Who’s using it and
Lan Licenser
how much?
Report Wizard
Combined Inventory
/ Metering Report
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Software Metering - Putting it All Together
Inventory
Compliance
Metering
Reporting
Procurement
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Architecture
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Lan Licenser Architecture: A Typical Site
Site Server
(NT4.0 or Win 2000 Server)
MS SQL DB
Database
Resides here
Tier 1
Able to dynamically add servers as
needed and provides fail-over support
Data Cache
Tier 2
Software Metering Servers
(NT, Win 2000)
Data
Collection
Client Agent
(Win 3.x, Win95 / 98,
Win NT, Win 2000)
Tier 3
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Licenser Enterprise Manager Architecture
New York HQ Site (Parent)
London Site (Child)
Tokyo Site (Child)
Centralized management of
licensed product, combined with
flexible local management
Advanced data management
capability over a global enterprise
Dynamically share licenses
enterprise wide
Increased scalability for
global organizations
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Compliance
Washington, DC (24 May 2000) -- Results of the fifth
annual benchmark survey on global software piracy
were released today, highlighting the serious impact of
copyright infringement to the software industry. Piracy
losses exceeded $12 billion worldwide in 1999 and
topped $59 billion during the past five years. The survey,
conducted by an independent research firm, was
commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA)
and the Software & Information Industry Association
(SIIA).
"Software piracy continues unabated, robbing the
industry of thousands of jobs, billions in wages, tax
revenues and critical investments in new technologies,"
according to Robert Holleyman, president and CEO,
Business Software Alliance.
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Other IT Areas that Benefit
Asset Management - Find out how many people are
using the app and who they are.
Service Desk - Establish what were the last 3 apps
that ran before the workstation crashed.
Maintenance - Decide on which versions of an
application you need to support (and which can you
eliminate).
Security - Investigate what unauthorized or
restricted apps are being used where and by whom.
Hardware - How much disk space on the network
can we recoup?