Development teams are often spread across multiple geographies and data centers. Coupled with the increased complexity in today’s development that drive up the cost of expensive software licenses such as those used in EDA, organizations have an increasing need to maximize the sharing of a common software pool in order to manage their total spend. While sharing a common pool of licenses can achieve the overall cost objectives, the migration from site specific licenses to shared software resources can present multi-sited organizations with challenges. LicenseAllocator is designed to address the license sharing needs of multi-sited organizations.

LicenseAllocator works in conjunction with license monitoring and workload scheduling solutions such as Runtime’s LicenseMonitor and NetworkComputer. It keeps track of total number of licenses in the pool, those in use, and allocates the available licenses across geographic sites or business units via comprehensive resource management policies.