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Manage
your software resources and prepare for future buying or upgrading
decisions
- Quickly analyze changes in usage behavior
- Understand the effects
of financial changes
- Identify the benefits
or pitfalls of new licensing models
- Provide timely answers
to critical business questions/forecasting
- Meet new business
demands - remixing
- Audit the use of products within your organization
- Stretch your software
dollars
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Software
Investment Planning (SIP)
- The ability to achieve the most efficient
mix of software products to achieve your organization's
goals
- Understand the effects of software/hardware
purchasing decisions
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Analysis
On-Demand
- Quickly answer the management 'What if?'
- Test budgeting scenarios
- Analyze service level commitments based
upon software purchased
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Remix/Forecasting process requires large
data models, history and trend, making the process difficult
- Cubed data model dramatically improves
analysis times on large data models.
- Intelligent Data responding dramatically
reduces analysis times on large data models.
- Business Intelligence built into the analytics
engine dramatically reduces the need to understand the mechanics
of licensing, allowing more time to perform valuable analysis.
- Tracker provides a periodic rollup capability
that reduces data to daily and monthly totals.
- No longer fear remixing and forecasting.
Tracker makes it simple.
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Companion Capabilities to FLEXnet™
Publisher
- Tracker utilizes data generated by
Macrovision SAMsuite™
- Tracker analytics engine increases
the value of SAM-generated data by providing advanced analysis
capabilities.
- Tracker imports FLEXnet™ Publisher
usage data via GUI admin tool and command line batch tools.
- Tracker's built-in advanced Product to
Feature Mapping capabilities simplifies the users task by
mapping the feature's usage to the actual products.
- Tracker provides advanced
product use resolution based upon product-to-feature mappings
defined by the user or imported from the Product Mapping
Library.
- Tracker utilizes a
periodic rollup of feature license data into daily and monthly
totals by FLEXnet™ Publisher Feature and Product.
- Tracker generates graphs and charts
of historical peak software utilization by:
- FLEXnet™ Publisher Feature
- Product-to-Feature Mapping
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Analysis by Product, Not by Feature
- Product level analysis for FLEXnet™
Publisher licensed applications
- Tracker provides analysis by Product
instead of the traditional Feature
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Tracker Remix Calculator assists you in
determining the proper mix of software to purchase/support.
The Remix Calculator displays the following information about
each product in a use-defined software pool:
- Current License Count
- Peak license use count
for time period
- Peak count during time period
- Denial count during time period
- 'Effective Peak' - the peak software count
that would allow a user-defined 'acceptable denial' percentage
- The peak software use trend (up/flat/down)
- Recommends license count based upon the
above data, as well as a user-defined additional use and
denial scenarios and buffer percentage
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Tracker Remix Calculator displays dollar
costs for the software pools:
- Cost of current pool
- Cost of pool at peak
- Cost of pool at suggested count
- Cost of pool at user-defined count
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