Historian

[Glen Davies]

Hi

Haven't had experience with Historian but WinU from 
Bardon(http://www.bardon.com) has usage tracking which seemes to work 
ok, but it is a complete Win95 menu/security system, the tracking 
doesn't come separate. 
If you want to really splash out there is Softrack 
(http://www.on.com/) which can  track all usage of programs on a  server and 
workstations as well as license metering. This is useful as you can get special 
concurrent licenses from some vendors that allow you to load software 
onto say 20 workstations but only have a 10  concurrent user license, as long as 
you are running Softrack. If all 5 licenses are in use the user gets a message 
telling them so and they can then go into a queue to get a license 
when one becomes free. There are NT and Novell versions. 
I have used the Novell version and it seemed to provide accurate 
statistics on usage by user, hour, day, license etc. Very usefull for 
finding out if you really need a 20 user license for Microsoft Office or if you 
could get away with 10.

> Greetings!
> 
> Here at the University of Evansville, we have been on the lookout for
> software that would accurately track usage of computer programs.  
> Fortress Grand Corp. has a program called Historian that seems to fit
> the bill.  Does anyone have any experience using this program?  Any info
> would be appreciated.
> 
> TIA, 
> Margaret Atwater
> 
> Reference/Instruction Librarian
> University of Evansville		phone:	812-479-2487
> 1800 Lincoln Avenue			fax:	812-471-6996
> Evansville, IN  47722			email:	ma35 at evansville.edu
> 
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Glen Davies
Information Technology Librarian
Christchurch College of Education
Christchurch
New Zealand
glen at rimu.cce.ac.nz
64-3-343 7737
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