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Efficient Software Investment Planning with LinkRight's Tracker Solution

Join LinkRight, LLC for a presentation on Tracker, an advanced software investment planning tool. Established in 2003, LinkRight focuses on providing authentication and tracking solutions for enterprise users. This session includes a demo of Tracker, which automates the analysis of software usage, helping organizations optimize their software resources and make timely decisions. Learn about key features like usage over time, peak utilization insights, and the Remix Calculator, designed to ensure effective software license management and cost efficiency.

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Efficient Software Investment Planning with LinkRight's Tracker Solution

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  1. CELUG Tracker Presentation March 10, 2004 1

  2. Agenda • Who is LinkRight, LLC ? – 15 minutes • Demo – 30 minutes • Question and Answers – 15 minutes 2

  3. Who is LinkRight , LLC ? • Founded in July, 2003 by John Cooper and Rodney Chew to provide Authentication and Tracking solutions for Enterprise users of software • LinkRight, LLC has extensive experience in delivering enterprise class solutions • Milestones • Samson Single Signon Solution v1.5 released Oct. 2003 • Tracker v1.0 released Mar. 2004 • Customers • Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville 3

  4. Tracker Motivation • LinkRight recognizes the need for end-user tools that allow the efficient analysis and utilization of software resources • Licensing teams are being asked to answer more questions about licensing with less time to perform the analysis • Automation is required to make the process more efficient • End-user organizations attempt to create tools but are constrained by cost, programming resources and time • Analysis on Demand • Quickly answer the management “what if ?” • Automation allows more questions to be answered • Intelligent data repository • Cubed data model dramatically improves analysis times on large data models • Remix process requires large data models, history and trend making the process difficult. • Process begging for automation • Automation facilitates more efficient remixing 4

  5. Tracker Purpose • Software Investment Planning (SIP) The ability to achieve the most efficient mix of software products to achieve your organizations goals ! • Manage your software resources and prepare for future buying or upgrade 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 business questions • Meet new business demands - remixing • Audit the use of products within your organization • Stretch your software dollars • Understand the dynamics of acquisitions or divestitures • 1 + 1 = 3? Or 1.5? 5

  6. Design Goals • Tracker provides companion capabilities to FlexLM ™ • Tracker utilizes data generated by Macrovision SamSuite ™ • Tracker increases the value of SAM generated data by enabling advanced analytic capabilities • Tracker imports FlexLM™ usage data via GUI admin tool and command line batch tools. • Tracker provides advanced product use resolution based on product to feature mappings defined by the user or imported from Product Mapping Library. • Tracker utilizes a periodic rollup of feature use data into daily and monthly totals by FlexLM ™ feature and Product. • Tracker generates graphs and charts of historical peak software utilization by: • FlexLM ™ Feature • Product to Feature Mapping 6

  7. Design Goals - 2 • 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) • A suggested license count based on the above data, as well as a user defined additional use and buffer percent. • The Calculator also displays several dollar costs for the software pools: • a.Cost of current pool • b.Cost of pool at peak • c.Cost of pool at suggestebd count • d.Cost of pool at user defined count 7

  8. Features • Usage Over Time - helps you quickly determine what licenses to renew and which to drop. • Peak Utilization - reveals the peak usage over time to optimize your license purchases to manage peak demand and avoid the productivity issues associated with license denials. • Effective Peak Usage - the quantity of licenses required to ensure users do not encounter denials an "acceptable denial percentage" of time for a given period. • Usage Efficiency - enables you to understand what percentage of each license is being used, helping you evaluate new purchase and renewal decisions. 8

  9. Architecture 9

  10. Demo DEMO 10

  11. Future Implementation • Rollups of data by user, host • Export of graph and remix calculator data to Excel • Ability to gather/track software not licensed with FlexLM. • Expanded product/feature mapping library • Chargeback Module 11

  12. Summary • Software Investment Planning (SIP) requires automation to efficiently perform the process! • Enterprises need tools to better manage the software resources available • Tracker provides an efficient, easy to use environment for SIP • Tracker speeds up the analysis of license usage, making decisions regarding usage and budget more btimely and accurate. • Tracker provides significant intelligence in the never ending battle to manage your $$$ software budget $$$ 12

  13. Contact Us • For more information about Tracker:Rodney P. Chew – President rchew@linkright.bizStephen Kowalcyzk (ko-wall-check) – Vp of Development stephenk@ linkright.bizLinkRight Software, LLC. 15010 N. 78th Way, Ste 103Scottsdale, Az 85260 480- 596-0096480-596-0264 (FAX) email: info@linkright.biz 13

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