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title: "Find Details About Software Utilization"
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# Find Details About Software Utilization

This video demonstrates how to find details about software utilization.

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## Video Transcript

To get a better idea of software usage, we can examine the software packages observation. The basic perspective shows general consumption and activity, but the usage details perspective is a great place for app managers to see if users are truly using the software that they have purchased.

If I filter by Adobe, for example, I can see how many installations of Adobe Reader exist, how many users are utilizing it, and how many different systems are actually using it. If users haven't used it in more than 90 days, I can click on those values to get a list of users or systems.

It isn't unusual to see zero users if the application is run as a system account and not in the user context, such as security software used for virus scans.

The named user versus per device licensing perspective helps determine which type of software license makes the most sense for your organization.

The configuration details perspective shows dependencies for .NET and runtime libraries. Pay attention to old versions here, as this can be a security concern. If an application requires a lot of GPU resources, it could be a challenge in a VDI environment.

Note that we measure GPU and graphics intensity using OpenGL and DirectX, and not in GDI objects.

Also, from a VDI perspective, you might not want to create a special image for software packages that are only being used by a few users.

If we want to see how complex these packages might be to virtualize, we can switch to the Application Virtualization observation.