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managing licenses

Michael Alestra
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I'm curious as to how others are managing their Bentley product licensing. We have a situation where we only have a few seats of LEAP Steel, LEAP Concrete, Open bridge modeler, Inroads, microstation, etc... and we have many users, when at any time will need to use any of it. Bentley has decided to not allow any of us to hardcap licenses and would rather charge us for overages that we have no ability to directly manage. WE have enough licenses, just no means with which to organize the users access to them. We need to figure out a solution that keeps Bentley from sending us a quarterly bill for thousands of dollars.

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    Custom activation groups isn't a solution. We need to have the users access to the software from their machines (please don't recommend a remote login) we just don't want them using it without checking to see if a license is available.

    I don't understand why Bentley cant give us the ability to hardcap and benefit from open access. Why cant we get a dialog that says something like "No licenses are currently available, are you sure you wish to use this software? Overage charges will be incurred."

    right now we have no idea if we are going over until we get a bill. That's information that we should at least know or have access to. We need the ability to see how many licenses are in use at any given time. Whats the point of using software that saves time when its takes time to use it.

    right now the only option i see is to have the users check a shared calendar.

    its 2016, we shouldn't need to jump through these hoops to manage software.
  • 0 Offline in reply to Michael Alestra
    Apparently, Bentley can't provide this functionality, but 3rd party apps can. Search on this subject, and you should be able to find links. A Google search should also turn up license management tools.
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