Aerospace & Defence
You trace every part. Now trace every licence.
Nothing enters an aerospace build without a record of where it came from and who handled it.
Engineering software is the exception — a seven-figure estate spread across sites, programmes and secure networks, with no equivalent trail. OpenLM applies the same discipline to your licences.
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Extensive Coverage
Design, simulation, test,
avionics and manufacturing
Design, simulation, test, avionics and manufacturing — including dongle-protected and node-locked tools
Engineering software coverage
OpenLM supports the software environments used across aerospace and defence engineering workflows.
90+ licence managers supported
FlexNet, DSLS, Reprise, Sentinel RMS, LM-X, Bentley and more
CATIA / 3DEXPERIENCE (DSLS)
Siemens NX & Teamcenter
PTC Creo / Windchill
Ansys
Abaqus & Simulia
MSC Nastran / Hexagon
Altair HyperWorks
LS-DYNA
MATLAB & Simulink
Cadence
Siemens EDA
IBM DOORS
Autodesk
SOLIDWORKS
Sentinel HASP dongles
The Role of OpenLM
Make licence usage visible,
controlled and accountable.
Cost recovery: Turn licence spend into recoverable cost
- Chargeback, usage attributed by project, contract and cost centre
- Evidence for renewal negotiations with the vendor
Engineering productivity
- Real-time usage and denial visibility
- Harvest idle sessions instead of buying seats
- Priority access for critical programme teams
Secure networks: Bring classified and air-gapped estates into view
- Runs fully on-premise inside segregated and air-gapped environments
- No outbound connectivity required
- The same usage intelligence on secure networks as on open ones
Export control: Let access follow clearance, automatically
- License Access Control governs who can pull a licence, by group, site and nationality
- AD/LDAP sync keeps entitlements current automatically
- ITAR, EAR and UK export control obligations met at checkout, not reviewed after the fact
Audit & compliance
- Continuous compliance position against entitlements
- Timestamped usage logs mapped to user identity and to geographical or project rules
- Retained usage history across long programme lifecycles
Consolidation
- One consolidated view across sites, servers and legal entities
- Shows where contracts overlap and duplicate
- Leverage at the negotiating table well before the renewal date
Homepage & Navigation
- Continuous compliance position against entitlements
- Timestamped usage logs mapped to user identity and to geographical or project rules
- Retained usage history across long programme lifecycles
- Tailored reporting for various stakeholders
Deployment —
deploy where your data is allowed to live
On-premise
Air-gapped
OpenLM Cloud (EU / US)
Case Study
A leading US defense and space
technology company
A leading US defense and space technology company, Dynetics (a Leidos company), managed CAD/CAE licensing — ANSYS, Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE, SOLIDWORKS, IBM DOORS — by relying on users to self-report when they couldn’t get a license or needed a standalone seat. OpenLM replaced that guesswork with heat-map usage reporting and denial tracking, giving the team clear, data-backed justification for every seat added.
The result: roughly $150,000 saved on SOLIDWORKS MCAD alone, around 30 unnecessary seats avoided, and an ROI north of 2800% on the initial investment — with denial and usage data now referenced as part of day-to-day license management.
$150,000
saved on SOLIDWORKS MCAD alone
30
unnecessary seats avoided
2800%+
ROI on the initial investment
“The obscene ROI is possible due to being able to visually see the actual software usage and track denials, and not just rely on users reporting that they cannot obtain a license or trying to justify standalone seats – which is what the majority of our users had before we started tracking licenses.”
The result: roughly $150,000 saved on SOLIDWORKS MCAD alone, around 30 unnecessary seats avoided, and an ROI north of 2800% on the initial investment — with denial and usage data now referenced as part of day-to-day license management.
Aerospace & Defence
You trace every part. Now trace every licence.
Nothing enters an aerospace build without a record of where it came from and who handled it.