SMARTLIC is a new generation enterprise software resource management solution

SMARTLIC is a new generation enterprise software resource management solution, that activates software resources under the circumstance of regulations, avoids the waste and increases software license usage, and provides enterprises with evaluation of renewal and maintenance costs. At the same time, SMARTLIC can provide rich charts and analysis reports for enterprise , and assist managers in various departments to make various business decisions.

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  Gartner Says Organizations Can Cut Software Costs by 30 Percent Using Three Best Practices

In more than 800 Gartner client inquiries regarding SAM tools between May 2015 and March 2016, organizations with mature software license optimization processes that were automated using SAM tools reported reducing software expenses, on average, by 30 percent within the tools' first year of operation.

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  Gartner Says Organizations Can Cut Software Costs by 30 Percent Using Three Best Practices

In more than 800 Gartner client inquiries regarding SAM tools between May 2015 and March 2016, organizations with mature software license optimization processes that were automated using SAM tools reported reducing software expenses, on average, by 30 percent within the tools' first year of operation.

  What SMARTLIC can do to help companies?

Management objectives to reduce software procurement costs.

(1) Improve software usage and reduce software cost of new purchases and maintenance.

(2) Effectively help develop accurate software annual purchasing plans and budgets.

Accurately evaluate the ROI of software purchased.

(1) Evaluate whether the business applications (such as ERP, PLM, etc.) are in normal use?

(2) Is the trend of usage activity of each system are in good condition? Require to continue maintenance or upgrade?

Risk management of license management

(1) What type of software (such as Office, ERP, CAD, ...) is most frequently used?

(2) Does the number of licenses exceed the number of purchases by the company? Are there employees who use non-compliant software privately?

Deeply mine software usage behavior, help IT departments comprehensively enhance ther value to enterprises.

 Automotive industry – Help purchase software precisely

A car company encounters many problems in manage those high-priced CAx software usage:

(1) User departments apply software purchase separately. CIO is very difficult to approve the purchase When the overall procurement budget is tight!

(2) Due to the lack of accurate data base, it is hard to formulate an annual software procurement plan and budget.

(3) Costs of various CAx software maintenance fee is high, the company's management requires IT department to make an accurate assessment of the existing usage for more than 20 software to determine how maintenance is carried out.

(4) Some software has relatively few licenses, it raise malicious preemption is serious. The user will login for a long time without logout, resulting license being wasted and wasted of software resource due to user’ bad habits!

The benefits of the company's implement of SMARTLIC system effectively solved the above problems:

(1) SMARTLIC is able to accurately provide data and analysis information to support future procurement plans and budgets for software procurement.

(2) Based on the historical software usage data by SMARTLIC, CIO can quickly decide whether to approve

(3) SmartHOLD maximizes the benefits of software, effectively solves the problem of malicious preemption license problem, and increases the software license utilization rate.

 Transportation industry - Effective management the rental expiration time of software

A rail transit equipment company uses CATIA as the main design software. The company needs to know the lease expiration time and usage of each module at any time to decide how to renew it next time.

The company implemented SMARTLIC to manage the software for renting and using data analysis. Because of the excellent efficiency of SMARTLIC, the project put all CAx software into management (more than 20 kinds of software). The management benefits after implementation include:

(1) The expires are notified in time for each software module.

(2) Overall licenses statistical of software can be operated different operating system platforms.

(3) Keep track of the real-time data of the number and expiration time of software such as CATIA.

(4) Improve the utilization rate of software such as CATIA through the system's utilization optimize mechanism.

(5) Provide a variety of statistical reports based on different types, time periods, and analysis dimensions.