FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications: Features

New! Track and Report across your High Value Applications—For enterprises running multiple license servers you can now consolidate your reporting from those servers on to a centralized interface. You can now use FlexNet Manger to centralize your usage date, report on, and optimize these licenses too – all within a single interface and workflow. Take advantage of the robust reporting engine for all your FlexEnabled, LUM, and a diverse mix of license system managed applications.

Track and Manage FlexEnabled Licenses— FlexEnabled applications are programs that have been instrumented with Flexera Software’s FlexNet licensing technology by their respective software vendors. There are over 20,000 FlexEnabled applications on the market from software vendors such as:

As the makers of FlexNet, Flexera Software is uniquely capable of providing organizations access to the most complete and meaningful insight into the software usage of these valuable applications.

New! Track and Report on LUM-enabled Applications—If your organization relies on CATIA, ENOVIA SmarTeam, and other LUM-enabled applications, you can now use FlexNet Manager to report on and optimize these licenses too - all within a single interface and workflow.

New! Common Report Log —FlexNet Manager 14.1 introduces Common Report Log functionality. This new functionality enables enterprises to define a report log format and import it using FlexNet Manager interface or at the command line. This functionality enables enterprises to import non-FlexNet (and non-LUM) report logs for usage reporting and tracking purposes. FlexNet Manager provides comprehensive reporting across your engineering and technical applications and enables you to do consolidated planning for your enterprise-wide software licensing needs.

Track and Manage Windows-based Applications—Track, manage, and report on the usage of your high-value Windows-based applications, such as Visio, using FlexNet Manager.

FlexNet Manager software license management capabilities allow you to track and report on actual software license usage across your organization. It catalogs all usage data in a centralized database that you can access anytime using FlexNet Manager's powerful reporting engine. This solution also offers a way to analyze usage and denial trends in relation to license terms, costs and organizational structure.

With usage reports provided by FlexNet Manager, you now have a complete understanding of your organization's actual licensing needs, so you can save money by making accurate software purchasing decisions. You can cut costs further by identifying underutilized licenses that can be shared among departments and determining which annual support plans no longer need to be renewed.

Get answers to critical business questions more quickly and easily using FlexNet Manager’s new Software Investment Planner. Its flexible data model allows you to test various scenarios and get answers to any number of questions that begin with, “What if…?” Now you can better understand things like the benefits or pitfalls of new licensing models or pinpoint the most efficient way to distribute licenses across the organization.

Unlike any other tool on the market, it recommends purchase quantities based upon past usage trends and other customizable factors. This helps you to more accurately plan and budget for the future, identify the most efficient way to distribute licenses across the organization, and determine the right mix of software to purchase or retire in order to minimize software costs, effectively manage denials and address license compliance issues.

FlexNet Manager provides a single console view of all the licenses and license servers in your environment, enabling a single administrator to effectively manage and maintain licenses, even from remote locations.

Using FlexNet Manager's Web-based interface, you can view in near real time which licenses are in use and who is using them, making it easy to determine and resolve license availability and compliance issues.

Use several chart and graph options to make data more meaningful and easier to digest. Import your LDAP organizational structure to quickly identify software usage by business unit or user.

Get a summary view of the current state of licenses across your organization, including the real-time status of servers and vendor daemons, the most heavily used application features, the most active vendor daemons, and more. The Summary page has an extra section listing the general status of all license servers, so you can see at a glance which servers are up, down, or experiencing an error.

New! Track and Report across your High Value Applications—For enterprises running multiple license servers you can now consolidate your reporting from those servers on to a centralized interface. You can now use FlexNet Manger to centralize your usage date, report on, and optimize these licenses too – all within a single interface and workflow. Take advantage of the robust reporting engine for all your FlexEnabled, LUM, and a diverse mix of license system managed applications.

Track and Manage FlexEnabled Licenses— FlexEnabled applications are programs that have been instrumented with Flexera Software’s FlexNet licensing technology by their respective software vendors. There are over 20,000 FlexEnabled applications on the market from software vendors such as:

As the makers of FlexNet, Flexera Software is uniquely capable of providing organizations access to the most complete and meaningful insight into the software usage of these valuable applications.

New! Track and Report on LUM-enabled Applications—If your organization relies on CATIA, ENOVIA SmarTeam, and other LUM-enabled applications, you can now use FlexNet Manager to report on and optimize these licenses too - all within a single interface and workflow.

New! Common Report Log —FlexNet Manager 14.1 introduces Common Report Log functionality. This new functionality enables enterprises to define a report log format and import it using FlexNet Manager interface or at the command line. This functionality enables enterprises to import non-FlexNet (and non-LUM) report logs for usage reporting and tracking purposes. FlexNet Manager provides comprehensive reporting across your engineering and technical applications and enables you to do consolidated planning for your enterprise-wide software licensing needs.

Track and Manage Windows-based Applications—Track, manage, and report on the usage of your high-value Windows-based applications, such as Visio, using FlexNet Manager.

FlexNet Manager software license management capabilities allow you to track and report on actual software license usage across your organization. It catalogs all usage data in a centralized database that you can access anytime using FlexNet Manager's powerful reporting engine. This solution also offers a way to analyze usage and denial trends in relation to license terms, costs and organizational structure.

With usage reports provided by FlexNet Manager, you now have a complete understanding of your organization's actual licensing needs, so you can save money by making accurate software purchasing decisions. You can cut costs further by identifying underutilized licenses that can be shared among departments and determining which annual support plans no longer need to be renewed.

Get answers to critical business questions more quickly and easily using FlexNet Manager’s new Software Investment Planner. Its flexible data model allows you to test various scenarios and get answers to any number of questions that begin with, “What if…?” Now you can better understand things like the benefits or pitfalls of new licensing models or pinpoint the most efficient way to distribute licenses across the organization.

Unlike any other tool on the market, it recommends purchase quantities based upon past usage trends and other customizable factors. This helps you to more accurately plan and budget for the future, identify the most efficient way to distribute licenses across the organization, and determine the right mix of software to purchase or retire in order to minimize software costs, effectively manage denials and address license compliance issues.

Powered by Cognos 8, you can run queries against the FlexNet Manager database to quickly generate detailed, accurate licensing reports. You can also use third-party or custom reporting tools of your choice to query the database.

If you're currently using SAM products, you will instantly notice how the speed and accuracy of this new database-powered engine makes FlexNet Manager reporting far superior to SAM.

Use several chart and graph options to make data more meaningful and easier to digest. Import your LDAP organizational structure to quickly identify software usage by business unit or user.

Many organizations have multiple orders with any given vendor, and those orders are made up of several applications that are deployed in various ways. With such complexity, there may be times when organizations aren’t really sure what they own.

Software Investment Planner can serve as your system of record for this complex data. You can input all the terms of your contracts and replicate real-world structures by grouping terms under multiple pools. For example, pools may be associated with different regions or a vendor may want to separate their newer technology with their legacy technology. Vendor acquisitions may also drive unique terms. Now you can easily see how your complex contract terms and costs map to usage trends in order to address compliance issues and test different scenarios to identify the optimal way to purchase and allocate licenses.

Your procurement team understands the contract terms that refer to products, not features. But your usage reports are based on features, sometimes with cryptic naming conventions that even license administrators can’t decipher or understand.

Rather than rely on time-consuming manual spreadsheet manipulation, use the power of centralized software management in FlexNet Manager to map complex product-to-feature relationships so you can provide procurement with reports on how your organization is using the products listed on your software contracts.

With FlexNet Manager v. 14, you can now fully leverage the power of centralized software license management to maintain user data in two ways. You can make major updates by importing XML files or make minor updates using a new GUI. This new interface makes it easy to keep this important information updated by providing you with greater visibility into your hierarchical structure.

FlexNet Manager includes a built-in report that makes it easier for you to anticipate and prevent license denials.

The report displays trends in your license usage, showing you the days and times when it's at its maximum and minimum, so you can see when the probability of denials will be high and take appropriate action.

Whenever upcoming maintenance could cause server downtime, you can use this report to only notify people using the impacted features.

FlexNet Manager’s software license management system allows you to track and process your licenses globally.

FlexNet Manager now makes it easy for specific administrators to be assigned responsibility for server and agent subsets.

You can customize FlexNet Manager so each administrator only sees activity and receives alerts for their assigned server and agent sets, no one else’s. It helps improve security while saving administrators the hassle of filtering through the activities of every server to find their own.
 

FlexNet Manager provides a single console view of all the licenses and license servers in your environment, enabling a single administrator to effectively manage and maintain licenses, even from remote locations.

Using FlexNet Manager's Web-based interface, you can view in near real time which licenses are in use and who is using them, making it easy to determine and resolve license availability and compliance issues.

Get a summary view of the current state of licenses across your organization, including the real-time status of servers and vendor daemons, the most heavily used application features, the most active vendor daemons, and more. The Summary page has an extra section listing the general status of all license servers, so you can see at a glance which servers are up, down, or experiencing an error.

FlexNet Manager has enhanced search and sorting capabilities that make it easier for license administrators—especially those managing a high number of license servers and reports—to find specific licensing data.

Save time and better manage licenses by using scripts to automatically respond to FlexNet Manager alerts.

For example, upon receiving a concurrent license usage threshold alert, a script could trigger an email to your users requesting they close the application when not in use.