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Overview
Software Asset Optimization provides comprehensive license management, aiding in budget planning and usage tracking. Despite the lack of a native mobile app, the platform’s extensive reporting capabilities, predictive analytics, and strategic benefits make it a compelling choice for optimizing complex engineering portfolios.
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Starting Price
Custom
Software Asset Optimization Specifications
Analytics and Reporting
Escalation Management
SLA Management
Self-Service Portal
What Is Software Asset Optimization?
Altair Software Asset Optimization (SAO) is a centralized analytics solution designed to visualize and analyze global software inventories and utilization rates across facilities, divisions, and departments. By aggregating data from various license managers, it enables organizations to right-size their software portfolios and pinpoint underutilized assets. The platform includes predictive modeling tools that allow IT managers to simulate capacity scenarios, ensuring optimal budget allocation, and reducing unnecessary IT expenditures for engineering and high-performance computing environments.
Software Asset Optimization Pricing
The Software Asset Optimization pricing is custom based, tailored to users’ needs.
Software Asset Optimization Integrations
Who Is Software Asset Optimization For?
Software Asset Optimization is ideal for a wide range of industries and sectors, including:
- Automotive
- Aerospace
- Manufacturing
- Energy and utilities
- Electronics
Is Software Asset Optimization Right For You?
If your organization spends a significant budget on engineering or HPC software, Software Asset Optimization software is likely the strategic fit you need. Its standout capability is the SAO Predict module, a ‘what-if’ simulator that allows IT leaders to forecast capacity needs and model the financial impact of changing license configurations before spending a dime. By combining this predictive power with granular, hierarchical reporting, it transforms license management from a clerical task into a high-value business intelligence function. The platform is particularly valuable for enterprises seeking to facilitate accurate internal chargebacks and reduce audit risk.
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Software Asset Optimization Features
This advanced feature offers a virtual license manager to simulate ‘what-if’ scenarios. It enables organizations to explore configuration alternatives—such as reducing seat counts or changing mix ratios—to predict the impact on denial rates and user wait times with high statistical confidence.
The costing module empowers businesses to optimize software purchases by allocating spending based on actual usage metrics. It facilitates precise chargeback models, ensuring that specific departments are billed accurately for the resources they consume, promoting fiscal accountability.
Administrators are equipped with extensive management tools to handle the full lifecycle of asset tracking. This includes managing license expirations, configuring vendor daemons, defining user roles, and building complex organizational hierarchies to map usage to business structures effectively.
Users gain a comprehensive bird’s-eye view of license usage through over 70 configurable reports. These analytics provide extensive drill-down capabilities, allowing managers to dissect data by region, department, or individual user to identify usage trends and inefficiencies.
