LicenseAnalyzer consists of two main features: LicenseReport, presenting detailed usage statistics from common license managers such as FLEXnet/FLEXlm, IBM LUM, Elan, and LicenseView, a real-time Unix tool for license management in conjunction with FLEXnet.

With this license management tool, LicenseAnalyzer, you can meter license usage across any size enterprise. Discover trends, excess licenses and use LicenseAnalyzer reports to optimize deployment of expensive license resources and minimize costs.

• Analyzes application usage over time such as maximum, minimum and average use
• Automatically produces graphical or tabular reports of license usage for internal analysis and chargeback billing
• Collects unalterable license metering data in reports used in vendor communications
• Maps proficiency by monitoring license usage patterns of various user groups, enabling targeted support and training

• Shows an interactive snapshot of all licenses in use including; by whom, which software, when the session started and where it is being used
• Gives those authorized the means to free up unproductive licenses that are checked out

Information is gathered from license mangers such as FLEXnet/FLEXlm, IBM LUM, Sentinel, Elan/Abaqus/Greenhill, ClearCase, RLM from Reprise Software and even applications that don’t use licensemanagers.

• Accurate accounting of software usage allows you to:
• • Prepare for negotiations with vendors
  • Identify unused software licenses
  • Charge users and user groups for licenses
  • Negotiate new types of agreements such as pay-per-use by person, timeframe and location
• Global companies can structure license agreements with license sharing across time zones
• Supports accurate budget planning for future license costs as well as software chargeback
• Delivers the option to use statistics to spread the workload for expensive licenses and cut costs
• Provides third party documentation for software license compliance
• Maps proficiency and inefficient usage patterns