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Craig Robson, JBA Consulting, UK
"As for our thoughts on OpenLM, I can honestly say we are extremely pleased with it. Before we used OpenLM there were always broadcast emails being sent around the company asking 'can anyone free up an ArcGIS licence' – these stopped almost immediately when we installed OpenLM. We always suspected that people were 'hogging' licences (i.e. loading ArcGIS when they first got into the office in the morning because they wanted to use it later and feared they wouldn't be able to get a licence), so we widely publicised the fact that licences would now be freed up after 15 minutes of inactivity.
..As you can see, after several months of use we don't have any real problems. OpenLM is very straightforward to administer and works very well in the background without interfering with the users' way of working. All in all, we're extremely glad we stumbled upon your website!! Congratulations on an excellent product."
Daniel Avramov, GIS Team Lead, Environment Canada
"OpenLM is the most important tool in the management of Environment Canada's geospatial software assets. Over the past several years, Environment Canada has been working towards better coordination of the Department’s geospatial tool. OpenLM has given us the power to identify and optimize the Department’s investments and is instrumental in the decision making process for the purchase and maintenance of geospatial software. Now, instead of independently investing in duplicative and costly licenses, we have been able to consolidate and save time, resources and money. OpenLM staff are knowledgeable and friendly and most importantly know the value of client service. They went the extra mile to get their software configured on our infrastructure well before we ever committed to purchasing the software. The software is well designed, very easy to use and the summaries and statistics it provides far exceeds any other software management tool that we evaluated. OpenLM is extremely affordable and the cost saving it provided in licenses has made it pay for itself many time over. Thank you OpenLM team for your incredible product."
Clara Alonso Fernández-Coppel, GIS manager, Tragsatec, Spain
"With more than 800 seats of potential users for ArcGIS, we were really worried about the amount of licenses we will need to buy to cover our needs. People argue that they cannot finish their work when there’s not enough license available, so we received a lot of pressure to buy more licenses. We suspected that in most cases, licenses were captive but not being used. Until we bought OpenLM we couldn’t be sure that we were right. Now we have delayed our purchases of licenses until we get real data for the need of buying them. At the beginning, people get a bit annoyed when they loose their licenses, but they see the benefit of it pretty soon. We have received a great support from people at OpenLM: quick, effective and friendly. It has been a pleasure to work hand in hand with them. We got help right from the beginning when we were merely testing the software." Israel Tauber, Director, Forest Management, Monitoring & GIS, Forest Management, ISRAEL "For a long time we heard complaints from many of our GIS users in the organization about the low availability of ArcGIS licenses. We considered buying two more expensive licenses, as we regularly did almost every year. However at that time we happen to be introduced to the OpenLM application and were invited to participate in testing one of the first OpenLM versions. We asked for the price of the software, just in case we ended up deciding to purchase it. When we heard the price we realized that we have nothing to lose. If the application would actually work as expected, we should be saving much time and money by using it, so we really had nothing to lose. The results were beyond expectations, in fact amazing. No more complaints, high availability of licenses and when there is an urgent need for a license, you can always see who are the active users and ask one of them to release their license. I highly recommend OpenLM to every organization, large or small."
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