License Statistics custom graphs

When tracking licenses, you need the flexibility to view exactly the types of reports that you care about. For example, what if management asks you for a report that compares application A with application B? Or how about showing the combined behavior of two departments as one graph?

These may seem like common, simple tasks, but actually delivering on these kinds of requests certainly is not trivial to accomplish. We've witnessed users creating their own customs scripts to solve such reporting challenges with a varying degree of success.

Now we are able to provide you with custom graphs as they should be done. Effortlessly.

Working closely with our customers, we have created an open engine that allows you to make custom graphs beyond the extent of what License Statistics competitors offer. Best of all, custom reporting is available at no extra cost when you purchase License Statistics, starting at only 150 EUR.

Our custom reporting utility lets you generate almost any type of report you could imagine, based on usage, users or groups. All of these reports include graphs representing usage based on your specifications. You can select the start and end time of a report; define whether you want to see daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or even yearly statistics; narrow down results using filters that include or exclude applications, users or groups; and control what the results look like.

All in all, our custom graphing engine gives you more than 15 different graph types, letting you provide your organization with the results needed. It is an ideal tool to let you quickly answer questions such as, "What is our usage of XYZ compared with ABC?"

Here are just a few examples of custom reports you can create:

- A user-based graph that shows user performance on a monthly basis for a specific product
- A usage report of products A, B, C and D within a single graph that shows a side-by-side comparison of each product's usage
- Weekly graphs showing group-based usage
- An annual report of servers A and B merged together as one graph -- even though the servers are in different physical locations



The above figure shows an example of a custom report. Here we have 5 applications compared with one another within the same view, represented as a monthly report.

Custom reporting is easy to set up and can be scheduled to give you updates on an automatic basis. Additionally, you can share the HTML pages throughout your organization without installing 3rd party software on all your machines, making it easy to distribute usage tracking information to your group or department.