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Avio Aerospace Case Study
1. Cutting costs by metering
engineering applications
usage: a real life success story
in the aerospace industry
Enrico Girotto, Aviogroup
Massimo Dal Vecchio, Open iT
Francesco Dipasquale, Polimatica
Turin, October 28th 2009
2. Managing Software Costs
Open iT, Polimatica and Aviogroup
Aviogroup Requirements
The solution
Phase 1
Phase 2
Results
Next steps
Conclusions
3. Open iT
Mission:
Enable companies to optimize their IT resources.
Leading worldwide vendor of enterprise IT resource
usage metering and optimization solutions:
LICENSEAnalyzer速
LICENSEOptimizer速
SYSTEMAnalyzer速
Visit us on the web: www.openit.com
4. Open iT Key Figures
Worldwide presence:
USA Houston, TX
Europe UK, Germany, Norway
Far East Philippines
Reference markets
Oil & Gas
Aerospace, Automotive, Hi-Tech Engineering, EDA
Serving most of the Fortune 500 companies
5. Polimatica
An ITC solution provider and consulting company
founded in 1982
Active in the following market sectors:
IT Security & Business Continuity
Cost Reduction on IT infrastructure and IT asset
PDM/PLM & Content Management Systems
Supply Chain Management and Execution
Turn Key Custom Projects & Developments on
Embedded and Real Time Systems
6. Polimatica - Key Figures
Turnover:
3,8 M (2008 Fiscal Year)
People:
58 Highly skilled engineers and professionals
Partnerships:
Strong relationships with all market leaders in the
relevant ITC industries
Visit our website: www.polimatica.it
7. Aviogroup
Business Activities
CIVIL
Modules and Components
for civil aviation aeroengines
& aeroderivative engines
GEnx
MILITARY
Complete propulsion systems
and services
Space propulsion & LEO EJ200
SPACE Launchers
(solid & liquid)
CIVIL Civil aeroengine
MR&O MR&O
Vega
Maintenance
9. Aviogroup
Worldwide Locations
7 in Italy: Turin (3), Colleferro (Rome), Brindisi,
Pomigliano dArco (Naples), Acerra (Naples)
2 in South America: (French Guyana)
1 in the Netherlands: (Eindhoven)
1 in Poland: (Bielsko-Biala)
10. Aviogroup
Locations in Italy
Sangone (Turin)
Rivalta di Torino (Turin) Covered area m212.200
Covered area m 163.000
2 94 people
1765 people Developement Testing:
Mechanical Transmissions Engine, components
Rotating Parts Getti Speciali Borgaretto (Turin)
Covered area m2 22.000 226 people
Casts for aeronautical
components
Colleferro (Rome) Brindisi
Covered area m 157.918 470 people
2 Covered area m248.403 642 people
Space Solid Propulsion Military engine assembly
Military MRO, Naval Package
Pomigliano dArco (Naples)
Covered area m284.418 772 people Acerra (Naples)
Combustors, Structural Parts Covered area m236.309 362 people
Civil MRO Airfoils
11. Aviogroup Requirements
Key priority
Getting actual data on SW resources usage was
becoming essential and "in-house" or existing
commercial solutions were not holding up to cost and
feature constraints
The starting point
We were looking for a supported product working with
multiple License Manager vendors
We needed flexible and powerful analysis capabilities
Our target was to implement optimization strategies
12. Aviogroup
Engineering IT infrastructure
Open)iT
Centralized Server Bielsko Biala
Rivalta di LM
Server
Torino (Torino)
LM
Server
LM
Server
Colleferro (Roma) Brindisi
Acerra (Napoli)
Pomigliano dArco
(Napoli)
14. The solution
After evaluating the alternatives we:
Selected the Open iT platform
Enrolled Polimatica for helping in the project
The project:
License Managers (FlexLM, LUM & Sentinel) were
instrumented with the LICENSEAnalyzer速
Workstations and Pcs were instrumented with
LICENSEOptimizer速 and SYSTEMAnalyzer速
A single, centralized, database started to log all the data
15. The Project
Select the group of users to be involved
Install Open iT on a dedicated centralized server
Start system's instrumentation
Deploy the LICENSEAnalyzer速 client on 13 License
Servers
Deploy the SYSTEMAnalizer速 data acquisition module on
500 clients (workstations & Pcs)
Define the methodology for the analysis and the
required reports
18. Phase 1
The target is to find actual usage levels and patterns
The initial focus is on:
LICENSEAnalyzer速
This module collects and analyzes application license
usage providing insight on several utilization metrics.
SYSTEMAnalyzer速
This module collects and analyzes how HW and other
system resources are used on each client providing
insight on actual system obsolescence and on local
applications usage
19. Phase 1 Findings:
Actual Level of Concurrency
MAX AVAILABLE CONCURRENT LICENSES
64
Max Concurrent Licenses Used between July 2007 and July 2008
46
21. Phase 2
The target is implementing optimizing actions
The focus is on LICENSEAOptimizer速
This module detects active application usage. Inactive
applications can be suspended and forced to release the
acquired license
It allows for enforcing a better usage policy resulting in
a faster circulation of available licenses among users.
This policy can be fine tuned to assign different levels of
service to different user groups
22. Phase 2: The Targets
The target is to define the optimal number of
licenses in the following scenario:
Achieve the maximum efficiency level
Acknowledge a 15% increase in demand forecast by the
business
Grant the same service level without any impact on the
users
23. Phase 2:
The Optimal Number of Licenses
MAX CONCURRENT LICENSES AVAILABLE
64
Max Number of Concurrent Licenses forecast for 2009 (15% increase over actual 2008)
53
Max Concurrent Licenses Used between July 2007 and July 2008
46
Optimized Number of Concurrent Licenses Required for 2009
(assumes 15 licenses being reclaimed by LICENSEOptimizer速)
38
25. Project Results
Phase 1:
40% reduction in yearly costs/engineering apps
Phase 2:
15% increase in the user demand
14% further reduction in yearly costs
Total yearly cost reduction achieved: - 47%
Project Payback:
Less than 6 months
26. Next Steps
Extend the metering to:
More Engineering application
Other locations worldwide
Leverage available historical data for:
Finding further areas of savings
Optimizing office productivity application usage
Implementing active HW obsolescence policies
27. Conclusions
Open iT proved to be a valuable tool
High ROI
Fast Pay Back
Effective
Open iT long term benefits are just emerging
A comprehensive database enables further discoveries
Support for a wide range of metrics allows to address
many sides of IT infrastructure optimization