1. Industrial Project: Winter 2011-2012 A License Management Application Supervised By : Nir Orlev, BMC Software Done By : Afik Avnon, Dmitriy Rudnik

2. Introduction Large Organizations:  Have many employees and computers.  Purchase all kinds of software.  Manage many software licenses. Managing licenses is not a trivial task. A license management & analysis tool is required.

3. Goal To develop a prototype for a SaaS that will handle the license management task. Assigning license to employee. Retrieving license from an employee. Receive renewal alerts. Updating license validity upon renewal. Produce different kinds of reports and graphs : Licenses by expiration date. Licenses by company business unit. Licenses by employee. Licenses by software.

4. Project Scope Research: Learn about Groovy, Grails, LDAP and research types of software licenses. Design: UI and report presentation. Development: Code a prototype for SaaS license management. The project is a POC. Not a fully operational product!

5. Methodology Grails for RAD of client-server app. LDAP to access an organizations employee directory. Three short agile development cycles. SQLLDAP License management Tool UserAdmin Browser

6. Milestones 7/11 – Kickoff Meeting 8/11 – Research and Design Cycle. 27/11 – First Development Cycle. 18/12 – Midway Presentation Mockups and Design. Demo of basic features. 25/12 – Second Development Cycle. 15/1 – Finalizing. 22/1 – Final Presentation.

7. Risks A full support for all license types may be hard to achieve. Some features may be too complicated for the project's time-line. Due to the project being a POC, such features will be scoped-out.

8. Deliverables A working version deployed on a web server. Project’s Code. Documentation. An application Demo. Summary Presentation.