
How License Harvesting Actually Works: Idle Detection, Grace Periods and Save-State
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Open iT is a solution for metering, analyzing and optimizing the usage of technical and engineering software tools to generic applications, servers, storage, databases and services across an entire organization.
Primary tool for software usage metering, analysis, and optimization for all business and technical applications

This includes real-time monitoring and historical reporting on a wide range of on-premise and Cloud applications, proactive alerts, and customizable dashboards.

This level includes all the features of Level 1, and it also meters the activity levels of all applications (standalone or server-based, Cloud or on-premise) to determine whether the applications are truly being actively used.

This level expands the capabilities of Levels 1 and 2 to provide better control in managing license resources by uncovering and terminating or suspending applications that are not in active use.

An AI-powered query module built into LicenseAnalyzer™. Ask about your license data and quickly receive answers.
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Forecasting and anomaly detection tool that analyzes current and historical usage data to predict future trends in license usage. 
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Advanced system that provides administrators a centralized portal for the administration and management of license files and license servers.
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Aligning IT with business strategy boils down to how business unit managers make decisions about financing.
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Dedicated to Analyzing Storage and Grid Computing environments.

Provides full visibility of storage resources (files, file systems, disks and backups, etc.), thus enabling optimal data storage management.

Monitoring a wide variety of system resources with extension for metering distributed grid computing environments.

Helps Ansys users manage their resources investment and ensures maximum utilization and ROI of these valuable assets.

Helps cut software license costs and reduce wastage on license usage by monitoring activity levels of Autodesk applications.

Helps in maximizing the usage of MathWorks software licenses, resulting in value optimization and improved user productivity.

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Powerful and complete solution to effectively control an organization’s SAP license usage and efficiently manage SAP licensing costs.
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The Open iT product suite is an enterprise analytics platform that enables organizations to measure, analyze, and optimize software licenses, applications, compute, and storage usage across complex IT environments.
Open iT manages usage data for license-managed applications, standalone software, SaaS and cloud applications, engineering tools, compute workloads, and storage resources.
Yes. Open iT is vendor-neutral and supports multiple license managers and software vendors.
Yes. Open iT supports 27 cloud-based and SaaS platforms, in addition to 90+ license managers. This enables unified visibility across SaaS, subscription, concurrent, and on-premises licensing models within a single analytics platform.
Yes. Open iT supports vendor-specific rules and licensing structures, including feature-level tracking where applicable.
Yes. Open iT supports token-based, concurrent, named-user, subscription, and consumption-based models.
Yes. Open iT supports highly customizable reporting.
Yes. Dashboards can be tailored by role or user.
Yes. Open iT supports role-based access control (RBAC).
Yes. Open iT integrates with a wide range of license managers.
Yes. Open iT integrates with Active Directory and identity systems.
Yes. Open iT supports integration with ITSM platforms.
Yes. Data can be exported and integrated into BI tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
Yes. Open iT provides APIs for integration and automation.
Yes. Open iT is designed for large-scale, global enterprise environments with high data volumes.
Open iT scales through distributed data collection and centralized analytics, supporting multi-region, multi-time-zone, and multi-vendor environments.
Yes. Open iT is designed for hybrid IT environments.
Yes. Open iT supports monitoring across virtualized desktops and servers.
Open iT collects data from license servers, applications, operating systems, and infrastructure components. The data is normalized, processed, and aggregated to provide real-time monitoring, historical trends, and advanced analytics.
Open iT consolidates data from multiple vendors, servers, and environments into a single centralized analytics platform, providing enterprise-wide dashboards and reports.
Yes. Open iT provides real-time monitoring of supported license-managed applications, including current usage, availability, and concurrency levels.
Yes. Open iT stores and analyzes historical usage data, enabling trend analysis, forecasting, audit support, and renewal planning.
Open iT enables optimization by identifying inefficiencies, redistributing licenses, reducing idle usage, and aligning license quantities with actual demand.
Open iT provides configurable alerts when usage approaches or exceeds defined thresholds.
Yes. Administrators can configure custom thresholds and alert triggers.
Yes. Open iT generates accurate, defensible, audit-ready reports.
Open iT supports audits by maintaining historical usage records, entitlement comparisons, and standardized reporting.
Organizations with complex licensing environments, high software spend, and enterprise-scale deployments benefit most from Open iT services.
Port 7478 was the default port used by earlier versions of Open iT's licensing server. It may still apply if you're running one of those older installations, but current versions no longer require this port by default.
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