Nationwide centralization of CATIA licenses

06 May 2009, 10:19am

FRIMO Group is one of the world’s leading developers and providers of system solutions for the manufacture of high quality plastics components. In the course of a process optimization, the CAD license usage has recently been centralized at the five German engineering locations in order to give every CATIA user at FRIMO access to all available CATIA licenses. The objective was to enhance the utilization of the expensive CATIA licenses so that in future, fewer licenses have to be purchased despite an increase in the use of CATIA. In comparison to the site-specific licensing, where license shortages and questions regarding the license usage could be answered easily by asking the designers on-site, special tools are required to monitor the nationwide usage of the licenses.

Infotech Enterprises GmbH, a leading provider of digital design communication solutions could provide the right solution to FRIMO: License Statistics. With this tool, organizations can find out about the license usage of their applications through detailed queries. The knowledge about peek times, free capacities and much more enables companies to optimize their license pool.

With License Statistics, all CATIA users at FRIMO can directly see which licenses are currently available in all locations, which licenses are currently in use and which employee is using a required license. “License Statistics ideally supports the centralization of our CATIA licenses – through a very transparent monitoring of the current license situation”, Arno Driemeyer, Head of Information Technology at FRIMO Group explains. Besides, the open interface of License Statistics allows the integration into existing systems. This way, a performance-linked cost allocation based on SAP R3 could be realized, and each FRIMO location is charged for the exact hours of CATIA usage per month.

All together, FRIMO could realize immense cost savings by using licenses statistics because a nationwide license pooling would have been difficult to realize without this tool. To sum up, the results of using License Statistics at FRIMO are rated as outstanding: Through its open structure, this tool could be implemented into existing solutions without difficulties and has fully satisfied all expectations.

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