Software license management, built for engineering teams
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Are you reclaiming your wasted license budget?
Engineering software isn’t cheap. A single Autodesk, Bentley, or Ansys seat can run into the thousands of dollars a year, and most organizations buy in bulk to avoid the risk of a denied checkout. The result: license pools that look full on paper and sit half-empty in practice.
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License
optimization
Track real-time usage and reclaim idle licenses. Reduce unnecessary spend across departments.
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Centralized
control
Get a single dashboard view of all license activity across locations and teams—floating, node-locked, or dongle.
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Global access and availability
Ensure software access for engineers across regions—so your teams can work without delays.
One platform. Every engineering license.
Everything you need to control license
cost, compliance, and access
OpenLM supports 100+ license managers, including FlexLM, DSLS, Sentinel RMS, and LM-X, so you monitor Autodesk, Bentley, Ansys, Dassault Systèmes, Siemens, Hexagon, Altair, and IBM software from one console.
Real-time usage monitoring
See exactly who’s using which license, on which machine, for how long, right now and historically, with usage graphs by day, week, quarter, or year.
License harvesting
Automatically reclaim licenses left idle. Sessions are saved and returned to the pool after a threshold you set, without losing anyone’s work.
License access control
Decide who gets a license, when, and under what conditions, through options file management, so allocation policy is enforced, not honor-based.
Compliance and audit trail
Run scheduled compliance reports against vendor agreements and keep a full audit trail, so you respond to audit notices with data, not scrambling.
Reporting Hub and Analytics
Third-party integrations
AI FinOps
OpenLM
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ServiceNow
Engineering software governance, native to ServiceNow
If your organization already runs ServiceNow SAM Pro, OpenLM plugs directly into it. Standard SAM platforms aren’t built to instrument concurrent, network-based licenses the way CAD, PLM, EDA, and simulation tools need, which leaves a blind spot in your Now Platform data. OpenLM closes that gap, feeding real-time usage, denial tracking, and user behavior for FlexNet, Autodesk, CATIA, and more straight into ServiceNow, so your engineering estate lives in the same system of record as the rest of your IT assets.
100+
License managers supported
$200K
Average per-seat asset value tracked
100%
CSDM 5.0 compliant
Zero
Additional agent footprint
Listed on ServiceNow Store
Alerts Integration & Incident Management
A license shortage, denial spike, or dongle failure becomes a ServiceNow incident automatically, with the right priority. Built on Flow Designer, with four monitored severity levels and configurable duplicate-alert suppression.
Listed on ServiceNow Store
License Automation Tool
Requires SAM Pro
OpenLM Adapter Integration
Syncs engineering software usage data directly into ServiceNow SAM Pro’s Engineering Application tables, replacing manual exports and spreadsheets with a live governance pipeline.
Automotive and manufacturing customers using OpenLM’s ServiceNow integrations see a 15–25% reduction in wasted license spend by identifying zero-activity users, idle token pools, and misallocated CAD/PLM seats.
Up and running before your next renewal
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Connect your license managers
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See usage in real time
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Reclaim, optimize, prove compliance
Harvest idle seats, right-size your next renewal, and generate the reports your next audit will ask for.
Real savings, verified by the teams who run these licenses every day
28%
~$1.7M
2,800%
$30K
$100K
25–30%
In their words
What license managers and
CAD teams say after switching to OpenLM
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Autoneum achieved a 28% reduction in software license spending through reporting, giving us the confidence to reduce and not harm our business.
Steven Bryant
IT Operations Manager, Autoneum
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We bought OpenLM to monitor our Autodesk and Esri ArcGIS floating licenses. Since installing OpenLM we now know exactly who, when, how long, and what everybody is using. Now we know for sure we don’t need to buy more licenses.
Willy Vanelderen
CAD & BIM Manager, Province Limburg, Belgium
“Working with OpenLM makes you feel like you have your own license expert on the staff.”
Steven Bryant
IT Operations Manager, Autoneum
Featured case study
Closing a $1.7 million gap in 30 days
Baker Hughes needed to right-size a 500-seat Ansys license pool after a company split disrupted years of shared capacity. Using OpenLM’s usage heat maps, they cut peak demand and closed a gap worth an estimated $1.7 million, in 30 days.
Enterprise-grade security, built in
SOC 2 certified
Independently audited controls for security and availability
ISO 27001:2013
Certified information security management
GSA contract holder
Deployment flexibility
OpenLM Cloud (US or EU) or on-premises to fit your infrastructure
Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing
Monitoring Plan
Complete visibility
- Monitor every application type — network, named-user, standalone
- Basic usage, denial, and inventory reporting
- Identify unused license features
- Directory synchronization
Automation Plan
Full control
- Everything in Monitoring, plus:
- Dongle and DLL monitoring
- License access control (options file management)
- ITSM alert integration, compliance, and SAM features
- Roles and permissions
Over 100 users? Corporate discounts are available — contact sales for a personalized quote. OpenLM also offers a discounted Academic Program for accredited colleges and universities.
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30-day free trial
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- License enforcement across 100+ license managers
- Real-time and historical usage reporting
- License harvesting and access control
- AI usage visibility
- Conversational reporting
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FAQ
Common questions
No. OpenLM monitors and manages the license managers you already run, including FlexLM, DSLS, Sentinel RMS, and LM-X. There’s no rip-and-replace involved.
OpenLM supports 100+ engineering and specialty license managers, covering vendors including Autodesk, Bentley, Ansys, Dassault Systèmes, Siemens, Hexagon, Altair, and IBM.
Most customers connect their first license manager and see live usage data within the same day. Full deployment timelines depend on how many license managers and sites you’re monitoring.
Yes. OpenLM offers a full 30-day free trial with no credit card required, available as OpenLM Cloud (US or EU) or on-premises.
Yes. OpenLM Compliance and OpenLM Audit System generate the usage reports and audit trails you need to demonstrate compliance with vendor licensing terms.
Yes. OpenLM Platform monitors floating, node-locked, named-user, and SaaS licenses from a single console, and extends the same governance model to AI tools through the Enterprise AI Gateway.
Yes. OpenLM has three certified, ServiceNow Store–listed integrations that feed engineering license usage, alerts, and deployment workflows directly into ServiceNow SAM Pro and ITSM, so your engineering software estate lives in the same system of record as the rest of your IT assets.
Stop guessing what your engineering licenses are worth
See your actual usage in 30 days, free.