A CIO article reported about a study that highlighted that “U.S. organizations wasted $30 billion on unused software over the course of a four-year study.” Does your company spend money on engineering licenses that the team does not use? How much is your company and engineering team wasting on these unused resources? To gain competitiveContinue reading “How Much is Your Company Spending on Unused Engineering Software?”
Category Archives: Best Practices
How Can Engineering License Monitoring Solutions Help Improve Communications?
Often times, the engineering teams are spread across the world in various functions. What is the most effective way to communicate who is using which FlexLM (or a different engineering) license, when and where. LAMUM provides a bird’s-eye view of all the engineering licenses. This will help with greater transparency with which users, departments, andContinue reading “How Can Engineering License Monitoring Solutions Help Improve Communications?”
Ensuring Engineering Teams Are Productive Post-Pandemic
In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, companies are re-evaluating the needed commercial engineering and R&D tools. Many teams are returning back to the office, but the future is still unclear. Teams do know they now need to move even quicker in their decision making processes to survive. The working environments are becoming increasingly fluidContinue reading “Ensuring Engineering Teams Are Productive Post-Pandemic”
Hiring Talent? Look at Existing Engineering Software Inventory
Look at Existing Engineering Licenses Before Buying more – Don’t buy more licenses than you need. This past week, there have been a number of defense companies announcing major hiring events. Managers need to understand current usage trends and inventory levels to make educated decisions. How can companies save on existing licenses? One of theContinue reading “Hiring Talent? Look at Existing Engineering Software Inventory”
See the Full Picture About Your Engineering Licenses
As growth resumes, engineering managers need to be agile and well-prepared with reporting and information available to them. How can you best respond to the constantly changing times? Having information and statistics about your engineering licenses will be helpful. Engineering teams know they need to spend money on expensive engineering software, but many tools startContinue reading “See the Full Picture About Your Engineering Licenses”
Considerations for Right-Sizing Engineering Software
You may be wondering how many licenses do I need? What are some of the considerations for right-sizing engineering software – Solidworks, Autodesk, NX or any other? How is the engineer productivity impacted by availability or lack of engineering licenses? Current Inventory The first step is knowing what you have. Take a look at theContinue reading “Considerations for Right-Sizing Engineering Software”
Innovating While Monitoring Engineering Applications
Many companies are challenged with the question of “How do you innovate?” In our recent blog, we talked about innovation. Today’s world is becoming increasingly dynamic with a wide variety of tools. How can you keep up with ever-evolving and changing environment? The digital industrial revolution is here. How can you stay competitive while reducingContinue reading “Innovating While Monitoring Engineering Applications”
Adapting with Changing Times
Has the pandemic affected your organization? Are there changes in staffing, priorities and geographies? Make sure you have an up-to-date, accurate software inventory. Did you know that there is an easy solution to monitor and manage all of your engineering software licenses and usage reports that go along? A tool like LAMUM can help you:Continue reading “Adapting with Changing Times”
Right-Sizing Engineering Software During Staffing Changes
Did you know that you can save close to ~$50,000 on CAD / CAE / EDA / PLM tools? COVID-19 has forced many engineering organizations to downsize. With downsizing, your need for CAD / CAE / EDA / PLM tools will decrease. But by how much? In order to properly size your engineering license inventory,Continue reading “Right-Sizing Engineering Software During Staffing Changes”
Are You Managing EDA License Consolidation & Optimization?
You are probably using a number of different engineering software programs for design. But do you have a method currently to track whether you have more licenses for the software than is needed? Or where use is so low on some software, it would be more economic to move the users to a different solution?Continue reading “Are You Managing EDA License Consolidation & Optimization?”