OpenLM for Semiconductor & EDA
See every EDA license. Control every seat.
~$1.7M
Ansys expansion avoided by Baker Hughes after one month of OpenLM data
20+ vendors
and 30+ license servers in one view for a 25,000-person research organization
28%
planned seat increase cut back by MKS Instruments, a semiconductor equipment supplier
- Free brochure: license intelligence for chip design teams
Tool coverage by design stage, ROI method, and a renewal-prep checklist for Cadence and Synopsys contracts.
Trusted by leading innovators
The problem
Your scarcest tools are also your least measured
Checked out isn't in use
A license server reports a Virtuoso or VCS checkout. It can't tell you the session has sat idle since lunch.
Hoarding looks like demand
When seats run short, engineers hold onto them. Peak usage inflates and the next purchase is sized to the hoarding.
One pool, many sites
Design centers in different time zones share expensive pools. Without one view, each site buys for its own peak.
Chip design lifecycle: where seats get stuck
01
Circuit & schematic design
Idle Virtuoso and ADS sessions left open overnight
02
Simulation & verification
Regression runs grab VCS, Xcelium and Questa seats in bulk
03
Physical layout
Innovus and IC Compiler II licenses queued at crunch
04
Manufacturing checks
Calibre and PrimeTime demand spikes right before tape-out
Case studies
AEC firms cutting license waste with OpenLM
See usage vs. idle time
Session-level tracking
Checkout time, active time, and idle time, per user, per project, across 100+ license managers.
Automated idle harvesting
Configurable thresholds release unused seats automatically. No one has to remember to log off.
Per-project breakdown
Usage rolls up by users, teams, or client projects, and feeds straight into cost accounting.
One console, every office, every project
Multi-office pooling
Share one elastic license pool instead of managing each office separately.
Project-level billing data
Tie usage to project codes for accurate client billing.
Reporting in minutes
Ausenco cut semi-annual reporting from 1–2 days to an automated export.
Negotiate renewals with data, not guess
At renewal, OpenLM gives a granular-level usage telemetry of your Autodesk and Bentley licenses.
Gap analysis
See where you're over-licensed or running too close to the edge, by product and by office.
Chargeback data
Project-level usage feeds finance systems directly.
True-up protection
Continuous monitoring means entitlement always matches peak usage.
Every denied seat is a deadline at risk
With OpenLM, organizations can log and attribute every denial, so patterns surface before they become schedule problems.
Spot the pattern
see which tools and time windows generate the most denials.
Quantify the cost
denial-duration tracking turns "annoying" into a dollar figure.
Near-zero denials
idle seats auto-return to the pool before the next request comes in.
Built for your AEC stack
Feature-level monitoring
CAD & design
AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D, MicroStation, ArchiCAD, Rhino
BIM & modeling
Navisworks, Tekla Structures, OpenBuildings, Vectorworks
Civil & infrastructure
OpenRoads, OpenRail, InfraWorks
Structural & simulation
STAAD.Pro, AutoPIPE, SOFiSTiK
GIS
Esri ArcGIS
What changes, by team
Your next Autodesk true-up is already on the calendar
Get the ROI benchmarks and team-by-team breakdown before it arrives.