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Meter IT, Optimize IT with Open iT Software Usage Metering and Optimization Tools.
1. Meter IT – Optimize IT
Open iT - Global Hub for Usage
Signe Marie Stenseth, V.P.
sms@openit.com
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2. Open iT Company
• Open iT is an independent software vendor present in the Americas, Europe
and Asia.
• Broad customer base spanning multiple industries, with accumulated high
renewal rate of support and maintenance (>95%).
• R&D budget between 20-30% of revenue each year.
• Financially solid, debt-free.
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3. Traditional Way of Cutting Costs...
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4. Key to IT Optimization
• Standardize the justification process for new IT investments
– Based on measurable IT usage data
– Document how assets have been used over time
– Document shortages
• Do not let politics be the enemy of a sound investment decision
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5. Prepare for Multiple Views
• Multiple views provide
critical insight:
– By business unit/ location
– By application/ application
suites
– By users/User-group
– By fixed vs. variable costs
– By vendor
– By project
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6. Back up Software License Agreements with Usage Data
• Server-based, CPU, or core-based licensing
– Licenses for each eligible server, CPU, or core
• Named-user licensing
– One license for each named person that has access
• Concurrent licensing
– Licenses shared among users
• Enterprise licensing
– Open-ended or high number of
licenses to cover global enterprise
• Actual-use licensing
– Paying license fees for actual use
• A combination of the above
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7. Global Hub for Usage data
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8. What customers say…
“$ 1.35 Million in documented first year savings.”
“47% annual savings on our engineering applications.”
“10 % cost reduction on overall software licenses.”
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9. Burlington Resources
Cost of Savings over $5 Million
-36% software maintenance cost (Year 1)
-19% software maintenance cost (Year 2)
-3%
software maintenance cost (Year 3)
Y0 Actual Y1 Actual Y2 Actual Y3 Actual
Maintenance New Software
Usage metering tool used: OpeniT
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10. Framework for Incorporating Usage Data into Decision Making
Analysis
Modeling
Integration
Degree of
Interaction
with the
Usage Data
Question:
Monitoring at the Beyond:
License Manager Level
What’s the difference between CPU
Monitoring
the # licenses we purchased &
- Start/stop metering DB
& the # licensesfeature being
Reporting
- Feature by actually
- License Manager
checked by server
Server out? Application Network
(Server) (Desktop) Storage
Spectrum of Sources for Usage Data
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11. Get Answers
Question:
Monitoring What’s the difference between
the # licenses we purchased &
& Reporting the # licenses actually being
checked out?
License Manager
(Server)
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13. Framework for Incorporating Usage Data into Decision Making
Question: Question: the Client
Monitoring
(Application Location)
Monitoring What’s the difference between What’s the difference between
the # licenses purchased & the # licenses being checked out &
- CPU, I/O, mouse/keyboard
& Reporting the # licenses being checked out? the # and executables being used?
- DLL licenses actually
- Active vs. Inactive use
License Manager Application
(Server) (Desktop)
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14. Get Answers
Question: Question:
Monitoring What’s the difference between What’s the difference between
the # licenses purchased & the # licenses being checked out &
& Reporting the # licenses being checked out? the # licenses actually being
used?
License Manager Application
(Server) (Desktop)
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15. We Quanitfy whatthein Use
Help you Harvest is Savings
Max available (290)
35 licenses @ $50,000 = $1,750,000 { Max total concurrent (265)
115 licenses @ $50,000
= $5,750,000
Max active concurrent (150)
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16. Framework for Incorporating Usage Data into Decision Making
Question:
Modeling How can we best restructure or
(Higher Level remix our license agreements
with our software vendors?
Analysis)
Question: Question:
Monitoring What’s the difference between What’s the difference between
the # licenses purchased & the # licenses being checked out &
& Reporting the # licenses being checked out? the # licenses actually being used?
License Manager Application
(Server) (Desktop)
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17. Get Answers
Question:
Modeling How can we best restructure or
(Higher Level remix our license agreements
with our software vendors?
Analysis)
Question: Question:
Monitoring What’s the difference between What’s the difference between
the # licenses purchased & the # licenses being checked out &
& Reporting the # licenses being checked out? the # licenses actually being used?
License Manager Application
(Server) (Desktop)
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19. Framework for Incorporating Usage Data into Decision Making
Establish: Establish:
Modeling How can we best restructure or How can we establish and
(Higher Level remix our license agreements configure a rules-based
with our software vendors? framework to actively recapture
Analysis) licenses based on actual usage ?
Resolve: Resolve:
Monitoring What’s the difference between What’s the difference between
the # licenses purchased & the # licenses being checked out &
& Reporting the # licenses being checked out? the # licenses actually being
used?
License Manager Application
(Server) (Desktop)
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20. Framework for Incorporating Usage Data into Decision Making
Establish: Establish:
Modeling How can we best restructure or How can we establish and
(Higher Level remix our license agreements configure a rules-based
with our software vendors? framework to actively recapture
Analysis) licenses and support change
back?
Resolve: Resolve:
Monitoring What’s the difference between What’s the difference between
the # licenses purchased & the # licenses being checked out &
& Reporting the # licenses being checked out? the # licenses actually being
used?
License Manager Application
(Server) (Desktop)
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22. Do You Have the Insights You Need Into IT Usage?
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23. THANK YOU!
Signe M. Stenseth, sms@openit.com
Direct: +1 832 689 4647
WWW.OPENIT.COM
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Hinweis der Redaktion
We will cover the basics of Open iT’s software; I will show you our enterprise version with its dashboard, some sample reports, and show how Open iT can optimize your business results, and by so doing, boost your career.
Many of our customers have simular stories to tell. Some say they are afraid to tell us their story – because then we would feel that we sold our product too cheap... But here are a few more stories :One of these customers said: I saved $250,000 when I generated my first report!I saved 1.38 million after one year of using Open iT. This company made the savings public and presented at an Data Management conference. Murphy Oil Corporation.Another mature customer said: After 5 years with Open iT as the global hub for our application usage data, we have saved $10 million.
Here is another story: Burlington Resources saved $5 million on software costs in two years – 36% reduction the first year and an additional 21% the second year.In addition they received an improved mix of software to better support their business. They measured the business value to be 20 times higher than the cost savings.
So what do we do ? Why are we unique?In order to explain this to you – we have developed four quadrant for Software Usage Metering and Optimization...
Create advanced reports which span data sourcesReports can be delivered via e-mail or to a file share, on schedules such as daily, weekly monthly, etc.Easy to add calculated and filtered totals for better comparison and data context.Standard MS technology – Broad range of 3rd party extensions/plugins, training classes and consultants.
Create advanced reports which span data sourcesReports can be delivered via E-mail or to a file share on schedules such as daily, weekly, monthly, etc.Easy to add calculated and filtered totals for better comparison and data context.Standard MS technology – Broad range of 3rd party extensions/plugins, training classes and consultants.
Let me tell you a simple customer story: They knew what they had bought: The green capacity line shows you that: 300 concurrent user licenses of Magic Earth.Blue line shows how many licenses had been checked out, and the Red line shows how many licenses were actively in use after being checked out. This was a hosted environment.This customer saved 5,75M in license costs.
Excel dashboards can be created by exporting a report from the Analysis webpage.