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CELUG

• Tracker Presentation
• March 10, 2004

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Agenda

• Who is LinkRight, LLC ? 15 minutes
• Demo 30 minutes
• Question and Answers 15 minutes

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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.

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Architecture
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Demo

• DEMO

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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

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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

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Contact Us

• For more information about TrackerRodney P.
  Chew President rchew_at_linkright.bizStephen
  Kowalcyzk (ko-wall-check) Vp of
  Development stephenk_at_ linkright.bizLinkRight
  Software, LLC.
• 15010 N. 78th Way, Ste 103Scottsdale, Az 85260
• 480- 596-0096480-596-0264 (FAX)
• email info_at_linkright.biz

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