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Lan Licenser

Lan Licenser. Software Metering Solution. Why Lan Licenser ?. Engagent is the leading provider of software usage metering and monitoring technology. Compliance Lan Licenser ensures legality throughout the Enterprise. Reporting Lan Licenser provides custom reporting of software usage.

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Lan Licenser

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  1. Lan Licenser Software Metering Solution

  2. Why Lan Licenser? • Engagent is the leading provider of software usage metering and monitoring technology. • Compliance Lan Licenser ensures legality throughout the Enterprise. • Reporting Lan Licenser provides custom reporting of software usage.

  3. Engagent Statement of Direction The Engagent solution provides • Business intelligence for your computer environment • Return on investment • Procurement assistance • Lower software costs • Better management of resources • Improved help desk assistance • Improved people management & training • Network communication capacity with users

  4. The Ability to: Monitor all applications running on the network Know Number of active users Number and Types of applications running Frequency of use Software Asset Management Software metering is an essential component of Software Asset Management (SAM) designed to reduce costs and give you control of your enterprise What is Software Metering?

  5. Features of Lan Licenser • Meters all applications throughout the Enterprise • Applications from servers, CD’s, floppies and H/D’s • Control applications by: • users • workstations • time • groups and cost centers • Scalability • Scales from a single server solution to multiple server solution configurations • Fault tolerant • Low Resource Requirements • Minimal network traffic

  6. Flexible metering capabilities: • Active metering • Enforce License Limits or restrict access • Passive metering • Gather usage data with no restrictions • Laptop Support • License check-out for laptop users • Offline metering • Active or passive metering for mobile users` • Product start-up messaging • Notify users and help desk of products not supported • Notify users of software policy, real-time

  7. Inventory Plus License Metering Gives An Accurate Picture Inventory What’sout there? Who’s using it and how much? ABC Lan Licenser Report Wizard Combined Inventory / Metering Report

  8. Other IT Areas that Benefit • Asset Management-Find out how many people are using the app and who they are. • Service Desk- Establish what were the last 3 apps that ran before the workstation crashed. • Maintenance-Decide on which versions of an application you need to support (and which can you eliminate). • Security- Investigate what unauthorized or restricted apps are being used where and by whom. • Hardware- How much disk space on thenetwork can we recoup?

  9. Architecture

  10. Site Server (NT4.0 or Win 2000 Server) MS SQL DB Database Resides here Tier 1 Data Cache Software Metering Servers (NT, Win 2000) Tier 2 Data Collection Client Agent (Win 3.x, Win95 / 98, Win NT, Win 2000) Tier 3 Lan Licenser Architecture: A Typical Site Able to dynamically add servers as needed and provides fail-over support

  11. New York HQ Site (Parent) London Site (Child) Tokyo Site (Child) Licenser Enterprise Manager Architecture Centralized management of licensed product, combined with flexible local management Advanced data management capability over a global enterprise Dynamically share licenses enterprise wide Increased scalability for global organizations

  12. All the controls at your fingertips with interactive Help Screens

  13. Create as many Metering Servers as you need!

  14. Customized Scheduling of Internal Functions

  15. Client Operation and Protocol Customization

  16. Standard or Custom Client Messaging

  17. Scheduled Summarization of Data for efficient Storage

  18. Significant Events are Logged for viewing

  19. Event Log Entries Copied or Moved to NT Event Log

  20. Define any Software for Metering and Customize Access

  21. Unlicensed Program Launches and Registered Products are Tracked

  22. Wizard Driven Reporting Comprehensive Set of Reports Customizable Data Ranges Any Time Period Crystal Reports Engine affords Customization and ease of use

  23. Graphs are a SNAP! Select a Style A Data Range A Time Period You’re done!

  24. Executables can be ignored for more efficient Reporting Wildcard notation allows for easier Exclusions

  25. NT Style Resource Manager included Fully Importable User Manager will use current User Groups PC’s are listed by Machine Name Cost Centers can be created and assigned to individual users, or Groups, for tracking usage

  26. Lan Licenser • Easy to Use • Fully Customizable • Scalable to any Size Organization • Accurate Usage Data Collection • Custom Reporting • Full Application Access Control

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