On-demand Reports are one-click, commonly needed reports. The data in these reports is real-time and includes most current data. LAMUM offers 3 ways to create on-demand reports. “Favorite” in your browser Create the report you want. Save the URL as a Favorite in your browser. Give it a user-friendly name. When clicked, the Favorite willContinue reading “On-Demand Reports”
Category Archives: LAMUM Features
Types of Automated Alerts
Are you managing expensive licenses such as Cadence, Mentor, NX, ProE, Ansys, Matlab, among others? Your team or manager may want to get notifications pertaining to those licenses. There are automatic Alerts available in LAMUM for better engineering license management: Contract Renewal Alert Get an email Alert 30 or 60 days before a Contract RenewalContinue reading “Types of Automated Alerts”
Reports With LAMUM
LAMUM is a very useful usage reporting tool that engineering teams can use to have a more detailed view on license utilization, bottlenecks and requirements. Companies can look at the reports to see general trends as well as more specific detailed analysis. Engineering teams have liked a number of reports such as: Real time/current usageContinue reading “Reports With LAMUM”
How Does LAMUM Gather Data?
You may be wondering how does LAMUM gather data. Here we discuss how LAMUM collects data for Inventory/Asset, Renewal and Vendor and Usage data (for the various license types). Inventory/Asset, Renewal and Vendor data: Quickly import (anything in an Excel spreadsheet). Manual entry also is fast and easy. GUI is very intuitive and it takesContinue reading “How Does LAMUM Gather Data?”
IT Chargebacks for Engineering Applications
Chargebacks for IT software & services can surprisingly be an emotive topic for managers in most organizations. Issues can be summarized as: Typically Engineering Directors feel they are hit with escalating costs on a yearly basis, with very little transparency as to how these were calculated. The IT functions understand their staffing and project costs but lack theContinue reading “IT Chargebacks for Engineering Applications”
Planning an EDA, CAD, FEA, PLM or ALM upgrade? How well do you know your users?
Looking back a few years, I remember the urgent conversations during a scaled-up User-Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase; “Why are Robert and his team using the advanced features on the model viewer? I am not sure we have enough licenses now with the change in functionality at this new software version. Why didn’t we pick up onContinue reading “Planning an EDA, CAD, FEA, PLM or ALM upgrade? How well do you know your users?”
Added Functionality: JSON Export for Tableau
In LAMUM, our Engineering Software license intelligence platform, we deliver hundreds of reports through interactive, on-demand favorites or batch delivered (Take a look at our YouTube videos to learn more about various functionality). By always innovating, we also now deliver our data as an export JSON format for further analysis in data visualization tools suchContinue reading “Added Functionality: JSON Export for Tableau”
Understanding Usage Patterns & Trends
User Dashboards are easy so that anybody, any Manager, can create and maintain their own Dashboards. How can I set up the User Dashboard? There are certain checkout status or historical usage reports that you will want to see from time to time, on-demand, with the most current data. There are a couple of waysContinue reading “Understanding Usage Patterns & Trends”
Understanding Current Checkouts
We have received questions about how do the checkout reports work and how can these be used to get the most value? Providing a dashboard with live license check-out information allows users to ‘self regulate’ license use. Which in turn, reduces the system administration burden for explaining denials to users. What can you see underContinue reading “Understanding Current Checkouts”
10 Ways LAMUM Can Help You
1 – Knowing What You Own Good License Asset management begins by having an accurate idea of what you currently own, how/when you bought it, its cost, its restriction of use, and its expiration date. From there you can decide if you need more or less, or a different kind of License. Can you moveContinue reading “10 Ways LAMUM Can Help You”