Eracent Customer Success Story
Maximizing Software Value Across the Enterprise
Achieved significant cost reductions by optimizing software usage, eliminating waste, and improving IT asset visibility across a complex enterprise environment.
- Problem Addressed
Over licensing of software purchases
This organization previously had a policy of purchasing software licenses without verifying if existing licenses were available through non-use. This led to significant unnecessary expenditure and inventory bloat.
- Environment Scale
50,000+ computer environment
Desktops, Virtual Machines, and Servers
- Discovery Strategy
Implemented Eracent’s Software Usage toolset to determine license utilization.
Identified thousands of underutilized licenses eligible for redeployment
Results:
- $13 Million US Direct savings achieved through license harvesting and redeployment.
Impact across 4 Key Applications:
- Visio
- Project
- Hummingbird
- Borland Developer Studio
Eracent Solutions Utilized:
Software Usage:
- Granular monitoring of software utilization to distinguish between installed vs. actively used applications.
Methodology:
- Automated discovery of all installed assets across 50k endpoints.
- Detailed metering of application launch and focus duration.
- Comparison of usage data against entitlement records.
