OpenLM Cloud

OpenLM Cloud is software license administration solution that gives you monitoring, auditing and reporting of engineering software usage without worrying about server allocation, version updates, data backup, operating system compatibility or any of the other issues that can cause headaches with on-premise installations.

You need to install just one simple component, called the OpenLM broker to link up you license manager with OpenLM Cloud.

You can easily migrate from the OpenLM on-premise version to the cloud version and vice versa if you want to switch between hosted and non-hosted deployments.

Benefits of OpenLM

OpenLM provides benefits to many different people in the organization that uses concurrently licensed engineering software including IT managers, license administrators and engineers. Each has different needs as outlined below.

IT Manager

Know your engineering software license inventory
Better plan license procurement
Reduce costs by cancelling maintenance for licenses that are not used
Get accurate software usage information to report to management

License Admin

Real time usage management and troubleshooting
Extract license usage statistics information and patterns
You will have accurate software usage information that you can use to get better deals with software vendors

CAD/CAM Manager

Your team will get engineering software resources it needs
Projects won’t get delayed due to excessive denial of service of engineering software.

Financial Analysts and Economists

Distribute costs and better allocate your budgets
Identify unjustified expenses on software that is not used

License Manager Support

Works with a wide range of license managers. See the full list.
Handles leading license models including floating, node-locked and borrowed licenses.

Software License Auditing

Review license inventory in real time.
Concurrent monitoring of multiple license servers on multiple time zones.

Software Compliance Reporting

License activity reports
Usage statistics and patterns

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