Are you investing in your engineering software wisely? Maximizing your engineering software assets can help you: Eliminate redundancies Consolidate licenses Navigate licensing agreements Stay on top of contract renewals Better software negotiation Improve resource utilization Questions to Consider: What engineering software assets do you own? What’s being used? What’s expired or out of compliance? What’sContinue reading “Make Cost Management of Engineering Licenses Simple”
Category Archives: Best Practices
Engineering Software License Optimizaton: In-House Solution or Trust an Expert?
Do you have the tools needed to optimize your engineering software applications? Many companies may be running their own scripts. Read our whitepaper on this topic – License Asset Manager vs. Do It Yourself / Home-Grown Solutions for License Monitoring. Considering writing your own scripts and think you will save company resources? Remember that thereContinue reading “Engineering Software License Optimizaton: In-House Solution or Trust an Expert?”
Create A Data-Driven Culture: Optimize Your Engineering Resources
Looking to better understand how the engineering and R&D teams are using engineering software? Increasingly more companies are having open conversations about data-driven analytics and decision making. Is your company or organization working on better monitoring engineering licenses? Data about engineering software usage can help company leaders make important data-driven decisions. It’s important to considerContinue reading “Create A Data-Driven Culture: Optimize Your Engineering Resources”
Automating Costly Manual Processes
Your team may have had basic processes for managing licenses over the years. But how well are you managing these licenses and at what level are you on the engineering software license asset maturity index? Is there a way to automate costly manual processes of managing renewals and looking at how the engineering team isContinue reading “Automating Costly Manual Processes”
Engineering Software License Asset Maturity Index
Our team has put together a scale of how companies use engineering software licenses. With the economies of scale, you can also see how tool cost per engineer goes down as you move to the right. Level 1 – Reactive Most companies are Reactive here. Some have some In-house LMSTAT reporting tools. A script isContinue reading “Engineering Software License Asset Maturity Index”
Product Development, Corporate Evolution & Engineering License Management
There are any number of different ways teams and divisions are structured, which has impacted the software they use and how. This in turn has impacted the product development cycles. In this example, we will take a look at engineering license management across the various product lines. Historically, each of the product groups had the autonomyContinue reading “Product Development, Corporate Evolution & Engineering License Management”
Corporate Evolution at the Division Level
Why do engineering teams use different engineering licenses? There are any number of different ways teams and divisions are structured. But in this example, I will use R&D teams dedicated to product lines. Each Product division had the autonomy to make the decisions on which software they could purchase. The Product 1 team has beenContinue reading “Corporate Evolution at the Division Level”
Engineering Licenses Remix Time
Are you late to prepare for Vendor Renewals or License remix? Most vendors offer an opportunity to remix licenses every 3 or 6 months. How much do you know about your current engineering licenses? With many companies facing staffing changes, have your license needs for CAD, CAX, EDA, PLM, Simulation, Analysis and many others change?Continue reading “Engineering Licenses Remix Time”
Can Centralization Help You Manage Your Engineering Licenses?
The number of license managers / servers has increased and we often get asked which license managers we support (check out full list here). In these changing times, managers often face the challenge of rearranging engineering license estates or managing different licenses at different times of the product lifecycle. Would not a centralized engineering licenseContinue reading “Can Centralization Help You Manage Your Engineering Licenses?”
Questions to Consider About Engineering Licenses
Engineering teams are looking for ways of saving money. You are probably spending a lot on CAD / CAE / CAM / PLM software. Ask us how we can help you save ~20% of that cost. If you are hiring more people on your team or making any adjustments in staffing, are you familiar withContinue reading “Questions to Consider About Engineering Licenses”