Investment Planning

FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications’s investment planning functionality enables your enterprise to analyze product usage trends. You can use this information to forecast future product license needs and product license distribution for the entire organization.

Using the investment planning functionality available from the Planner tab, you map licensed features to the software products that are used in your organization. This feature-to-product mapping enables FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications to report on product usage, in addition to feature usage. Using the product-usage reports, you can identify usage trends, and use this information to optimize your product license purchases by remixing your contract pools according to the terms specified in your license contract.

Key investment-planning features include the following:

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The ability to input and manage contractual data.

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Feature-to-product mapping to facilitate product-based usage reporting.

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Remix calculations and analysis to show where license re-allocation may benefit your enterprise.

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Combined with organizational-structure functionality, investment planning enables you to accurately calculate chargebacks for different departments and project groups within your enterprise. (See the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications 2025 R1 Reporting Guide and the online help for information about organizational structures.)