Talk:Open iT

Edit Request
May I kindly request the following 18 changes due to outdated content on the Wiki page. The source is https://openit.com/. Thank you!

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From: "Open iT, Inc. is an independent software vendor that specializes in metering, analyzing, and optimizing usage of critical IT assets. It was founded in 1999 by Eistein Fosli, who obtained his Master of Science in Information Technology from the University of Oslo.

Open iT originally started in Oslo, Norway, and has its main offices in Houston (Texas, US), Oslo (Norway), and Lucena City (Philippines). The company's main operations are in North America, Europe, and Asia."

To: "Open iT, Inc. is a software development company that was founded in Norway in 1991 by Eistein Fosli. The company offers IT asset management solutions specialized in engineering applications from various vendors, including but not limited to Altair, Ansys, Autodesk, Aveva, Dassault Systèmes, MathWorks, MSC Software, Petrel, Bentley, Siemens, Schlumberger, and Hexagon. They also provide solutions for business applications such as SAP and Adobe. The company offers a partial list of metered applications on their website.

Open iT, Inc. currently has offices in 6 countries – USA, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Japan, and India. Their clients come from multiple industries including energy, engineering, banking & finance, construction, automotive, electronics & IT hardware, government, architecture, aerospace & defense, manufacturing, bio & pharmaceutical as well as healthcare."

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From: "Open iT Suite of IT asset management tools meter and report on usage of applications, servers, storage, databases and services across an entire organization, from a total enterprise view down to each individual user. It is built on a client/server infrastructure and includes reporting tool mechanisms.

Collected data is periodically sent to the Open iT Core Server, where it is processed and stored. Two types of reporting tools, the Open iT Reporting Server and the Open iT Analysis Server, may then pick up these stored data to generate customizable reports on a web browser."

To: "Open iT products meter, analyze, and optimize hardware, storage, and software usage. They track stand-alone, license manager-enabled, and SaaS based applications. The company’s solutions provide customers with enterprise-wide monitoring, assistance in implementing IT chargeback, ROI analysis, as well as the data needed in vendor negotiations."

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Remove: "Modules The Open iT Software Suite has 6 modules. These are LicenseAnalyzer, LicenseOptimizer, ApplicationTracker, SystemAnalyzer, StorageAnalyzer, and UsageAnalyzer."

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From: "Open iT LicenseAnalyzer is a software usage metering and optimization tool used for managing software licenses. This module provides an enterprise-wide view of software license usage, allowing companies to align purchases and maintenance with user needs. There are more than 30 license managers that are being supported such as Abaqus / Elan, Aladdin Hardlock (NetHASP), Altair, Animator, Bentley SELECT (on local servers), Beta LM, ClearCase, Codemeter (Dongle), Dassault Systemes License Server (DSLS), EasyCopy, Encom, Enterprise Architect License Manager, EOD (Exceed onDemand), Fekete License Manager, FlexNet/FLEXlm, Gemalto License Manager, Green Hills License Manager (GHSlm), Honeywell ULM License Manager, HQMS, IBM-LUM, Jazz Team Server, LM-X, LS-DYNA, MathLM, Olicense, OrcaFlex (Orcina License Manager), Parasoft License Server, Peloton, Reprise License Manager (RLM), Sentinel HASP (NetHASP), Sentinel RMS, SlickEdit, SmartPlant, STI License Manager, Vector (Dongle), Wibukey (Dongle), etc. Some of this module's primary functions include the following: builds information about trends and usage patterns across an organization meters license usage across an enterprise optimizes deployment of expensive license resources minimizes the cost of purchasing licenses generate license usage reports for chargeback accounting"

To: "LicenseAnalyzer 2022 is a software asset management tool that offers three levels of functionality – Runtime Usage, True Active Usage, and Managed Usage. This product provides an enterprise-wide view of software usage and has drill-down capabilities that covers both real-time and historical usage. Some of its features include: Collects data about trends and usage patterns across an organization from a wide variety of sources Advanced reporting and analytics Automates license harvesting Proactive Alerts Simulation of different licensing models, e.g, local vs global concurrent, named-user, token, and pay-per-use"

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Remove: "ApplicationTracker Open iT ApplicationTracker is a software asset management solution that monitors activity levels of all applications on Windows, Unix and Linux platforms. ApplicationTracker has advanced reporting capabilities and enables tracking of software usage, independent of licensing method, allowing companies to manage even wider selections of expensive software, such as CATIA, MATLAB, Solidworks, ANSYS, MATLAB, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, Autodesk, ESRI, Dassault Systemes Software Suite and many others. ApplicationTracker generates reports showing detailed usage of CPU and elapsed time, keyboard, mouse and I/O usage, portraying each application, where and when it is running, and who is running it."

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Remove: "LicenseOptimizer Open iT LicenseOptimizer monitors several applications’ activity levels on Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms. Some of this module's primary functions include the following: optimizes license usage by disabling unused applications disables and recalls licenses for others to use allows a license to be reinstated into the program when a license becomes available"

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Remove: "SystemAnalyzer Open iT SystemAnalyzer is a software module for those who require better control of their software and hardware resources. Some of this module's primary functions include the following: provides necessary computer usage statistics, e.g. what applications are running, how long an application is running, who is running the application (user), and what the application's host(s) is/are."

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Remove: "UsageAnalyzer Open iT UsageAnalyzer tracks each user's keyboard and mouse activities enabling personalized user training. Some of this module's primary functions include the following: collects data on keyboard and mouse activities provides information on whether an application is really being used or just kept open helps analyze an application based on its User Interface components"

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Add: "LicenseAnalyzer 2022 Plug-Ins

CLIMS Centralized License Integration and Management System (CLIMS) is a centralized portal for the administration and management of license files, options files and license servers. It includes the discovery of available license daemons, the issuance of remote commands to license servers, and a detailed version tracking and rollback function.

LicensePredictor LicensePredictor analyzes trends and usage patterns to forecast advanced license usage. It also has the capability to detect anomalies and send e-mail alerts to administrators.

LicensePlanner LicensePlanner helps organizations implement a fair and accurate chargeback system. It provides access to a complete and detailed vendor information and can be integrated with advanced invoice generation. It also includes license feature to price book mapping and software contract management."

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Add: "ComputeAnalyzer ComputeAnalyzer provides a centralized view of GRID, high-performance computers, and server utilization by metering CPU, memory and I/O usage. This enables accurate and flexible IT budgeting and chargeback as well as performance maximization for system resources."

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From: "Open iT StorageAnalyzer delivers an overview of disk and backup data so managers can improve data storage management. Some of this module's primary functions include the following: provides valuable information about disk usage shows how full each device is delivers storage trend reports plans storage management enables the accounting of NetApp files’ setup and use of quotas"

To: "StorageAnalyzer discovers storage usage trends by monitoring files, file systems, disks and backups. It includes reporting on used disk space vs file age, reporting on unmodified files, as well as disk space per user."

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From: "Analyzer for ANSYS® Software Open iT Analyzer for ANSYS Software helps ANSYS users manage their resources investment and ensures maximum utilization and ROI of these valuable assets. It provides a rich set of enterprise-wide software usage reports and powerful real-time views of current usage so managers can easily see how their IT assets are being used across the organization.

Analyzer for Autodesk® Licensing Open iT Analyzer for Autodesk Licensing helps cut software license costs and reduce wastage on license usage by monitoring activity levels of all Autodesk applications regardless of licensing type."

To: "Analyzer for Autodesk® Analyzer for Ansys® Analyzer for MathWorks® Analyzer for SOLIDWORKS® Analyzer for Siemens NX® Analyzer for Materialise® Analyzer for Bentley® Optimizer for SAP® Licensing"

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Remove: "Server Extension LicensePredictor LicensePredictor is a forecasting tool designed to help organizations in decision making, proper planning and allocation of IT resources by providing essential inputs regarding their projected software license usage over the next 18 months. It also detects and alerts users of possible data anomalies, which is key in maintaining system integrity."

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From: "Open iT Software Suite supports almost all Windows and UNIX platforms. These include but are not limited to AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive), Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows 8, and Windows 10. LicenseAnalyzer also runs on Windows Phone and Android (operating system)."

To: "Open iT software supports Windows, Unix, and Linux platforms."

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From: "Open iT Software Suite supports several License Managers. These include Abaqus / Elan, Aladdin Hardlock (NetHASP), Altair, Animator, Bentley SELECT (on local servers), Beta LM, ClearCase, Codemeter (Dongle), Dassault Systemes License Server (DSLS), EasyCopy, Encom, Enterprise Architect License Manager, EOD (Exceed onDemand), Fekete License Manager, FlexNet/FLEXlm, Gemalto License Manager, Green Hills License Manager (GHSlm), Honeywell ULM License Manager, HQMS, IBM-LUM, Jazz Team Server, LM-X, LS-DYNA, MathLM, Olicense, OrcaFlex (Orcina License Manager), Parasoft License Server, Peloton, Reprise License Manager (RLM), Sentinel HASP (NetHASP), Sentinel RMS, SlickEdit, SmartPlant, STI License Manager, Vector (Dongle), Wibukey (Dongle) and other license manager can be added on request."

To:

"Open iT supports over 35 license managers. These include Abaqus / Elan, Aladdin Hardlock (NetHASP), Altair, Animator, Bentley SELECT (on local servers), Beta LM, ClearCase, Codemeter (Dongle), Dassault Systemes License Server (DSLS), EasyCopy, Encom, Enterprise Architect License Manager, EOD (Exceed onDemand), Fekete License Manager, FlexNet/FLEXlm, Green Hills License Manager (GHSlm), Hexagon ISL Cloud License Server, Honeywell ULM License Manager, HQMS, IBM-LUM, Jazz Team Server, JetBrains Floating License Manager, LM-X, LS-DYNA, Materialise LM, MathLM, Olicense, OrcaFlex (Orcina License Manager), Parasoft License Server, Peloton, Reprise License Manager (RLM), Sentinel HASP (NetHASP), Sentinel RMS, SlickEdit, SmartPlant, STI License Manager, Vector (Dongle), V-Ray License Server, and Wibukey (Dongle). Other license managers can be added on request."

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Add: "Supported Applications Open iT supports more than 6000 applications. The website lists names such as Actran Acoustics, CREATOR, Ada, Adams, Altera, Ansoft Designer, ANSYS CFX Solver¸ ANSYS DesignModeler, ANSYS Explicit STR, ANSYS Geometry Interface for CATIA V5, ANSYS HPC, ArcGIS, ARIES, Aspen Dynamics, Aspen Hydrocracker, Aspen Hydrotreater, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Raster Design, AVEVA Review™¸ Avocet, BlueMarble, Catia, ChipScope Pro, ClearCase¸ ClearQuest, COMSOL, COMPASS, Magic Earth, LITHOTECT, Enovia, Flow 3D Flowmaster, FlowCheck, GeoFrame, GeoGraphix, GlyphWorks, HyperCrash¸ HyperForm, HYSYS, I-DEAS, IMEX, Inventor Suite, PetrisWINDS, Delmia¸ LabView, PowerINSPECT, Wind River, Mathcad, MatLab, Matrix, Maximo, Maya, MSC Fatigue, Nastran, Navisworks, Omega, OptiStruct, OriginPro, Integrity RTOS, Petrel, Petrosys, PI System Management Tools, PIPESIM, PLM, PSpice Advanced Analysis, RokDoc, Simulink, Simscape, SolidWorks, SPECCTRA, Cadence Design, Vericut, and WellCAD among others. If the application is not listed on the table, customers can confirm the availability for support through the website’s contact page."

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From: "Most of Open iT's customers are listed Fortune Global 500 companies. These include BHP, Cairn Energy, General_Electric, ConocoPhillips, Ecopetrol, EP Energy, Freeport-McMoRan, Landmark Graphics Corporation/Halliburton, Maersk Oil and Gas, Marathon Oil Corporation, Murphy Oil Corporation, Pemex, Pluspetrol, Shell, Statoil, TNK – BP, Woodside Petroleum, Avio, Lockheed Martin/US Army ARL, Oshkosh, UTC Goodrich, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Autoliv, Calsonic Kansei, Mazda Motor Corporation, Elpida Memory, Inc. and Seagate Technology."

To:

"Open iT customers range from Global Fortune 100 companies, some of which have more than 50,000 engineers worldwide, to small engineering businesses with as few as 10 engineers."

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From: "Number of locations - 4 (2014)"

To: "Number of locations - 6 (2022)"

TechEmployee (talk) 13:14, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Please break this down into separate, small and straightforward requests using secondary coverage. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:39, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you for checking this request. Since we are proposing 18 changes, I will separate it into 18 requests. However, I am not sure what "using secondary coverage" means. May I kindly ask for a Wikipedia link/guide on how to write in this manner? Thank you for your time! TechEmployee (talk) 12:35, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Stonetoss
There is no reliable source confirming that Stonetoss is in fact who they are claimed to be (a lack of response is not considered confirmation for Wikipedia purposes). Therefore the statement about Open iT employing them is inappropriate. ... disco spinster   talk  23:23, 28 May 2024 (UTC)