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MEGA Solution Platform Overview

Collaborative Ecosystem for Transformation Lifecycle Management
 Mega – Platform Components
Architecture Modules

IT Business Business Process Information IT Portfolio Integrated Risk

IT Architecture Audit
Management Analysis System Management Management

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Archimate Zachman UML BPMN SOA Micros-services

Common Platform Capabilities

Common Modeling platform

Social Visual Predictive

Alerts Workflows Gap Analysis Planning Assessment Reports Dashboards Portals Intelligence Intelligence
Collaboration

Engage Transform Communicate Artificial Intelligence

Strategy Business Data Application Infrastructure Security

Unified Meta Model

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Power Studio Power Supervisor

Administration Modules

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 HOPEX IT Business Management allows you to describe company strategy in depth at each level
IT Business Management of the organization and evaluate its alignment with the business initiatives. The modules also
provides the ability to define, assess and plan business capabilities and to develop and manage
the strategic initiative portfolio of the organization

Align to strategic goals

Step 1 Plan: • Capture your company’s
• Capture vision, objectives, strategy, and strategy including
tactics ​ objectives and tactics.
• Map business capabilities and functionalities • Define transformation
• Create value streams ​ stages and then plan
• Build strategic roadmap business capabilities
• Define mission, vision, goals • Value streams define the • Map applications to required for each stage.
and strategy for the whole stages necessary to satisfy business capabilities in
enterprise customers. business capability maps
• Define objectives and tactics • Link business capabilities to • Multiple criteria
for each transformation each stage of the value stream. rendering are available
stage thanks to user-defined
• If capabilities are missing, icons and color coding Improve IT Strategic Planning
identify the actions required to
Step 2 Optimize: develop or acquire new • Build an IT strategic
• Automatically collect IT assets business capabilities (build vs roadmap by connecting
• Build a data glossary as central partner) applications and projects
to planned business
documentation for IT projects
capabilities.
• Rationalize IT portfolio​(apps, technology) • Assess the impact of
• Create, share dashboards and ID cards of change on the existing IT
applications, technology and data ​ landscape and quickly
adjust as needed.

Transform: Focus Investments on strategic

Step 3 • View how applications use the • Perform impact analysis to • Prioritize projects based on
• Identify IT transformation projects ​ data of a data dictionary understand the impact of assessment such as strategic
projects
• Perform what-if analysis using transformation • Connect applications and data an asset on the business alignment, deliverables and • Prioritize future
scenarios ​ through data stores. and IT landscape impacted capabilities investments and IT
• Prioritize projects based on strategic projects based on strategic
alignment.
alignment ​
• Turn ideas into projects aligned to business
outcomes ​

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 With Business Process Analysis, analysts can document, assess and analyse their operating model
Business Process Analysis including organization structure, functions, people roles and responsibilities, processes, risks,
policies and procedures and compliance requirements based on internal and international
standards.

Improve business efficiency

Step 1 Improve:
• Model your business process groups and
their associated organizational processes
• Develop organizational process maps and
assign participants
• Develop organizational models
• Assign business processes to portfolios and
assess processes based on custom criteria
Step 2 Delight:
• Design customer journey per persona
• Define pain points and customer
expectations
• Map journey steps to related touchpoints
from the operating model
• Assess customer journey steps by channel
and define action plans
• Describes main business
processes
• Describes a sequence of
operations and participants
• Assigns participants to
organizational units of the
company.
• Design improved processes
and Automatically
highlights differences
• Model, analyze and
standardize your business
processes to improve business
efficiency and support new
business models
• Describes company • Automatically build
organization (structures, diagrams from a table
departments, functions, entry
people etc.) and external • Improves user efficiency
organization (clients, and helps save time
customers, partners) • Allows users to focus on
the process itself instead
Deliver Superior Customer
Experience
of spending time to
• Map customer journeys to
design it
design optimal processes and
deliver superior customer
experience

• Enable users to assess • Manage end-to-end • Enables user to include risks Ensure Compliance with
Step 3
Mitigate: processes through customer experience, map and controls in process Policies and Regulations
• Define, classify and assess risks questionnaires, and standard and rank touchpoints in models
• Map risks to their related operating model and custom criteria such as order to identify where to • Contextualize risk by linking it • Maintain business process
components execution (design, knowledge, optimize/invest first to the different operating models in a single repository,
• Define risk mitigation strategies IT support) and performance • Link touchpoints to model components to identify areas of concerns, and
(business value, efficiency and organization’s internal improve analysis and design improve operations to drive
• Define internal controls risks) processes, and check how of mitigation strategies compliance initiatives
• Evaluate effectiveness of controls and internal processes support
calculate residual risks the customer journey

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 HOPEX Information Architecture provides the timely, in-depth information that enterprise
Information Architecture information managers and business architects need to manage knowledge and data as an
enterprise asset. With our solution, stakeholders can make collaborative, well-informed decisions
about information usage across the various functions of your organization.

Get Visibility Into Your Data

Model:
Step 1
• Build your data glossary to unify data
definition based on business terminology
• Model your conceptual and logical data
models
• Reverse engineer your physical data models
• Map your data entities to business domains
• Generate data reference model based on
business domains with data criteria overlay
Step 2 Explore:
• Define data lineage across internal and
external applications
• Explore data flows and auto-generate data
lineage views
• Explore the relationship between business
concept and a technical data automatically
• Based on data dictionary, a
full working Business
Glossary can be initialized
• Enrich glossary concept
includes definitions,
pictures and synonyms
• Share the glossary across
the organization
• Includes all entities, their
relationships and attributes.
• Understand data requirements
to achieve business objectives
• Build and leverage a data
dictionary and a business
glossary to improve business
efficiency and ensure
• Map data by business domains everybody shares a common
• Gives a comprehensive view on understanding
data per business domain to
improve decision making
• Assign data criteria such as
data category (sensitive and
golden data) to the business Ensure Data Integrity and
domains Lineage
• Map data lineage and view
how data is transformed
• Understand data usage by
linking data to applications
and processes
• Assess data quality using the
six dimensions of data quality
• Analyze impact of change

• Describe the transformations
Step 3
Enforce: that happen to the data
• Categorize your data entities including:
• Assess your data entities based on specific set • Applications and
of criteria in line with the applicable technologies for external
systems.  dictionary
regulatory requirements • Data origin, processing
• Evaluate data compliance state based on type, control
applicable data regulatory requirements measurement and
subject.
• Different types of flows
• Understand how a business
concept and a technical
data are tied each other
• View how applications use
the data of a data
• •
Connect applications and
data through data stores.
• Understand where data is
used in processes to
improve compliance
• Assess data quality under the
six dimensions of data quality
including Completeness,
Uniqueness, Timeliness,
Consistency, Validation and
Accuracy.
Categorize data as sensitive or
golden.
• Evaluate data compliance
requirements
Demonstrate Data Compliance
• Assign data governance roles
• Upload and describe
regulations or policy chapters
and articles
• Define the business rules
related to articles
• Tie rules to business processes
to ensure their enforcement

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 HOPEX IT Architecture provides IT Architects with an IT asset view, and helps them consolidate
IT Architecture and update a consistent picture of applications and the technical infrastructure. It shows gaps in
services, redundancies, the resources supporting different processes, and how the architecture
aligns with business goals.

Get a Clear Picture of Your IT

Describe: Systems
Step 1 • Map applications and
• Define your applications’ environment
scenarios to depicts external context technologies, and how
• Define your applications’ structural views to they interact with one
describe your applications construct another to identify
• Develop your application workflow models to • An environment • Provides a structural view of • Describe workflows and efficiencies and avoid
express the logical sequence of execution architecture diagram the Application System sequences of tasks performed disruptions
represents the main Environment. by applications
exchanges between • It shows all the objects and • Tasks can be assigned to
applications communication paths that participants that represent
• Enables user to depict the must exist in order for the applications, IT services or org-
same application in scenarios to work. units (for interactive tasks). Tackle Continuous Business
• Use Service Oriented
Step 2 Align: multiple scenarios
Architecture to provide
Changes
• • Describes all flows between • Keep current with agile
Define your application functionalities detailed description of
applications and interfaces developments and design
• Map your applications to business application interactions
capabilities to understand and evaluate future IT systems. Ensure
business X IT alignment that your IT stays ahead of
• Auto-generate your business capability x the needs of the business
functionality map to explore how IT is
supporting the business

• Map applications to
Step 3
Deploy: capabilities in business
• Define your application technology capability maps
components and their relationships • Map applications to
• Depict your applications’ technical functionalities in
deployment and infrastructures functionality maps
• Ensure optimal technology usage and • Grouping Functionalities by
deployment infrastructure capability helps identify
business needs and identify
overlaps.
• Describes one possible
configuration of the
deployment of an
application
• Describes how the different
application technical areas
are connected to each
other and the technologies
and communication
protocols they use.
• Describes the servers, Speed up Application
workstations, network and Deployments
exchange protocols.
•
• Precisely describe how
Communication Channels
show physical connections technical components of an
between IT infrastructure application can be deployed
objects. to avoid potential pitfalls
• Interactions show exchanges
of information between
processes hosted on
infrastructure devices.

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 HOPEX IT Portfolio Management solution makes it easy to streamline your IT assets, optimize
IT Portfolio Management costs, and improve flexibility. It uses a three-step methodology to help you take an inventory and
perform a comprehensive assessment of your IT assets, and then develop and manage any
necessary transformation plans.

Get visibility into IT landscape

Inventory:
Step 1
• Collect your application information
• Define your application functional and
financial context
• Capture your application business
environment
• Define your application lifecycle
• Collect your application data related
information
Rationalize:
Step 2 • Group your applications into portfolios
• Define your portfolio assessment criteria
and weights
• Plan and execute application assessment
campaigns
• Auto-generate application rationalization
recommendations
• Monitor rationalization execution
• Describe business areas
supported by applications
• Get a comprehensive view of
the functional scope of an
application
• Define Application and
Technology Lifecycle as well
as deployment timeline
• List all underlying technology
components used in
applications
• Provides enhanced monitoring
of technologies lifecycle,
Obsolescence and Compliance
• Categorize your
technologies by domain
and View technology state
• Build a complete inventory of
your IT assets including
applications, technology and data
by automatically collecting data
• Get insight into the fitness of
your IT landscape through
• Describe application input dashboards and ID cards of
and output data flows applications, technology and
• Includes one or many data.
business data items within
the same Application flow
• Define the data used by
Reduce Cost
each application
• Set how the application
• Quickly identify the
processes data
applications to eliminate or
modernize using a
collaborative approach
• Clearly understand the impact
of removing an application

• Launch campaigns to
Step 3
Resolve: business and IT owners to
• Define your technology catalog assess business value,
• Capture your technology lifecycle functional support, and
• Define your company technology standards technical efficiency
and • View application
• Auto-identify technology conflicts based on assessments including
Business Value, Functional
application and technology lifecycle evolution
Support and Technical
Efficiency
• Recommends actions on
applications (Renovate,
Maintain, Enhance..)
based on assessment
criteria
• Shows application
portfolio evolution over
time integrating
application lifecycle
• Decide the technologies that Mitigate Technology Risks
comply with the IT policy rules
• Get visibility into technology
• Ensure that development
teams don’t use rogue lifecycles and manage technology
obsolescence
technologies that jeopardize IT
Solutions • Define approved or unapproved
• technologies based on IT policy
Detect application conflict
• View the impact of an obsolete or
periods due to obsolete
unapproved technology to
underlying technologies
applications and business
capabilities.

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 HOPEX IRM uniquely leverages information managed by IT, Business or Privacy compliance to better
Integrated Risk Management understand risk context and their impact on the business. Combined with other HOPEX solutions,
companies can effectively manage risks globally, ensuring employees share a common understanding of
the enterprise assets, processes and technologies while ensuring data privacy compliance.

Improve Risk visibility

Manage: • Collect your risks
Step 1
• Collect your risk information • Assess your risks
• Contextualize your risk information by • Define your risk mitigation
connecting it to surrounding organizational strategies
components
• Plan and execute risk assessment campaigns • Create a new Risk, capture all • prepare and launch an • Create & define Controls and
• Consolidate risk assessment results and relevant information and set assessment campaign to describe how the Control is to
calculate net risk value Risk Target & treatment automatically send out risk be implemented (processes), by
method. assessment questionnaires whom (entities) and what
• Define the context of a Risk (applications).
• Risks can be assessed in all
by specifying which • specify control methods and
Processes, Entities, their possible contexts with corresponding execution steps.
new assessment templates Strengthen Controls
Control: Applications and Business • Several Control execution steps
Step 2 • Lines are affected. can be created
Define risk mitigation strategies • Design your controls
• prepare & launch automated
• Design internal control activities required to Control execution campaigns • Define control execution steps
implement the selected mitigation strategy • Assess your controls
with the control execution steps • Define action plans
• • Compute residual risk
Conduct periodical control execution
• Manage incidents and corrective
assessments to evaluate controls’ actions
effectiveness and compute residual risk

• Contributors can declare a • Define applicable • Carry out analysis such as Risk Enhance Compliance
Step 3
Comply: new Incident from their frameworks Trend or Risk Reduction. • Define your regulatory
• Define regulatory requirements (internal and dedicated Interface and • Create framework • Define and monitor KRIs
frameworks
requirements • Track KRIs performance
external) provide all the relevant • Define your compliance
• Specify what parts of the through indicator status,
• Define regulatory requirements information. requirements
measurement freshness, and
• Contextualize regulatory requirements and • Contextualize the Incident Organization have to • Assess your compliance
time to failure
comply with the effectiveness
specify related implementation components by specifying the •
Requirement Define your compliance action
• Conduct periodical compliance assessment materialized Risk, the plans
• Assess effectiveness of
campaigns and define associated corrective failing Control and other
implemented Controls
actions information

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 HOPEX Audit allows you to manage your Internal Audit activities , manage your Auditors and
Audit generate work programs/activity plans automatically. It helps you capture all background
information relevant to an activity as well as generate checklists for your Auditors. It also allows
you to document Findings, issue Recommendations, and launch follow-up Audits.

Ensure Audit Effectiveness

Plan: • develop a consolidated schedule
Step 1
• Define your audit list for all audit plans
• Schedule your audits based on importance • Ensure best fit assignment of
and effort auditors based on skills and
• Assign your audit team based on skills and availability
• Ensure consistency of audit
availability • build a Work program for the • Audit Activities are sent to the • Auditors can follow their audit activities using audit checklist
• Prepare your audit check list or copy it from Audits they are assigned to. Auditors they have been check list on the system templates
an existing template • Each Activity can have assigned to. • They can document any
Workpapers and any • Auditors can then complete Findings and write the
background information corresponding
the Activity and any Test
necessary for the Auditor to Recommendations
carry out his/her tasks. Sheets he/she has been given • Use audit everywhere mobile
to fill. Improve Audit Efficiency
Execute: • If an Audit is recurrent, app to perform your audits
Step 2 • Auditors can « cloning » an online
Receive audit assignment • ensure online access to audit
already existing Audit’s Work
• Access audit background information program background information
during audit execution • Capture in real time all audit
• Capture findings against audit checklist and findings
• Define recommendations
define recommendations
• Generate consolidated audit
• Consolidate audit team findings and report
generate audit report

• The Lead Auditor can
Step 3
Follow up: consolidate and approve
• Convert recommendations into audit action the audit results.
plans • the Lead Auditor can
• Assign action plan owners produce a draft Audit
• Track action plan execution Report and submit to the
Audit Director.
• The Audit Report presents
all Information relevant to
the Stakeholders.
• Recommendation • Recommendation Owners can Govern Audit Action Plans
Owners can define follow-up on Action Plans
• Convert recommendations into
Action Plans to • Contributors can provide
progress updates and monitor action plans
implement • Enable real time monitoring and
Recommendations and their Actions.
follow up
assign them to the right • Ensure audit trail for all corrective
Action Owners actions
• Improve accountability though
visibility of progress of audit
action plans

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 Power Studio

HOPEX Power Studio provides admin users and configuration experts with the ability to customize the entire system to enable your
organization’s enterprise architecture practices and standards. The power studio allows you to customize your metamodel structure,
RTF reports, publisher portal, workflows, and various diagrams.

Metamodel Reports Configuration Publisher Configuration Workflow Configuration Diagram Customization

Configuration

System Process

1 R e a liz ed Syste m Proc ess

-E le m e n t in D ia gram -
{Ba se Type }
-C om p os ite R e a liz at io n-
{Comp osite R e aliza tion}
S yst em Proc e s s Ba tc h Re aliza tion
System P ro ce ss
-D e s c r ib e d E le m e nt- Batch Realization

Own ed Syste m Proc ess R e a liza tion

-Lib rary Ele m e nt-
-C o m po s ite c las s ifie r-
{Own ed R e a liza tion}
-Pro p e rty O w ne r- -R e quire m e nt-d riv e n Ele m e nt-
{Re alize r C omposite }
1 R e a liz er Ba tch P roc es s
-B a t c h P ro c e s s -

B atc h Be ha vio r 1 1 Ba tc h Nod e O wne r Ba tch C all Ow ne r 1 Ca lle d Ba tch Proc es s

{Ba tc h Node Owne r}
-Fe atu re T y p e -
-Fe a ture T yp e - -R e qu ire me nt-d ri v e n Ele me nt-

Own e d Ba tc h Se que nc e Own ed Ba tc h Node

Batch Sequence Pre d ec es sor -Ba tc h No d e -
Batch Sequence Name
Ne xt Se que nc e 1

Suc c e s sor
Pre vious Se qu e nc e 1

-C la ss ifi e r Co m po ne nt -
{Ow ne d Ba tch Node }
Owne d Ba tc h Ca ll Ba tc h Ca ll

-B at c h C all-

• Configure you metamodel, • •
Study the reporting
classes, attributes, and requirements and make sure
relationships. the required metamodel
• Use the available configuration configuration is in place.
as your base to leverage the • Use RTF descriptors to feed
out-of-the box functionality. the data into your report.
• Include diagrams, catalogues,
and matrices into your RTF
reports as needed.
Study the publisher portal
requirements and make sure the
required metamodel configuration
is in place.
• Use HTML descriptors to feed the
data into your portal.
• Leverage MEGA’s accelerator
template to bootstrap your
configuration.
• Include Diagrams, Catalogues,
Matrices, Dashboards, and other
outcomes in your publisher portal
• Give portal access to your
organization members without
any extra licenses.
• •
Use MEGA’s easy diagram
modeler to configure your
workflow.
• Assign the action
performers, state
transitions, and special
events.
• Write various scripts to
execute actions, make
calculations, lock objects,
and send automated
notifications.
Use MEGA’s out-of-the box
TOGAF and Archimate stencils
as a baseline for your
diagrams.
• Configure the various diagram
stencils to include/exclude
objects as needed.
•
Customize the diagram and
object look and feel to fit the
organization’s brand identity.
• Automatically set any
object’s shape based on
specific attributes.

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 Power Supervisor

HOPEX Power Supervisor provides power users with the necessary functionality to maintain the MEGA repository. It is the essential
tool set required for administrators to efficiently and effectively manage role-based access rights and permissions, confidentiality
areas, repository backups and management tasks scheduling and other administration features.

Environment &
User Access Rights LDAP Integration Database Backups Transaction Management
Repository
Management
Management

• Create your environment

• Specify the location where the
DB will be created
• Create the repository associated
with the environment to store
your information
• Schedule periodic DB backups
• Use or expand on the out-
of-the box MEGA user
profiles to conform with the
required access rights.
• Create new user profiles
from scratch or copy an
existing user profile.
• Define the access
permissions on the module,
diagram, object, page, and
attribute level.
• Enable LDAP authentication
using MEGA’s out-of-the box
adapter.
• Choose which users can
access the system via LDAP
and who can access using
MEGA native
authentication.
• Backup and restore the
MEGA application database
to easily backtrack any
changes or errors.
• Choose and select
particular blocks of your
configuration to publish to
production with minimal
conflicts and issues.
• Keep a watchful eye on the
application usage by
monitoring the currently
authenticated users and
the content they are
working on.
• Maintain an audit log of
the user access and change
history to easily track and
debug system errors.

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 Visual Intelligence
Environment Graph
Automatically construct relationships-
based environment graph view showing all
meta classes connected to a specific object
with the ability to filter the relationships
displayed
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Dendrograms 360 Matrix Timeline
Automatically construct multi-level Develop connected tabular views between Auto construct timeline views from date
relationship tree views with the ability to related metaclasses to list relationships attributes captured on the metaclasses
expend and collapse the different nodes information for the specific object type you
want to analyze
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 Predictive Intelligence

Automatically build time based predictive model for the impact of target Automatically predict technology obsolescence conflict based on
architecture and transformation roadmap on business capabilities application lifecycle and technology lifecycle

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 MEGA Use Cases MEGA comes with a library of use cases to enable the deployment of enterprise architecture in support of different scenarios.
The common aspect across all use cases, is the use of the enterprise information to drive the adoption of those different
practices. MEGA not only provides the modeling conventions to support each of those domains, but also enables specialized
functionality and reporting in addition to automating underlying processes using advanced workflow capabilities

7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4

7 Implement Solution Implementation Governance Software Development Project Change Management Process Automation

6.1 6.2
6 Transform Architecture Transformation Planning Demand Management

5.1 5.2 5.3

5.4 5.5 5.6
5 Optimize Application Portfolio Business Process Technology
IT Service Costing Cloud Transformation Process Mining
Rationalization Excellence Obsolescence

4.1 4.2
4 Plan Strategic Planning Performance Management

3.1 3.2 3.3

3 Control Governance, Risk, & Compliance Audit Management Data Governance & Compliance

2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4

2 Manage Business Continuity Management Data Glossary Management Policy / Contract Management Quality Management

1.1
1 Analyze Baseline Architecture

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 Uses Cases Playbooks Each use case comes with the following three key components necessary to implement the specific capabilities required for each
scenario:

Business Drivers Methodology Business Outcomes

Understand the key Define the sequence of Define the list of business
challenges activities necessary to outcomes required to
complete the use case support the use case

• Key Stakeholders • Methodology phases • Data collection

• Business Challenges • Methodology steps requirements
• Benefits • Usage and benefit
• Data collection
requirements

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 MEGA License Structures

User Types License Types

Perpetual Licenses
Permanent licenses paid once and use on ongoing basis. An
annual maintenance cost of 21% is due to ensure upgrade
and support. Licenses will continue to work even if AMC is
not paid

On Premise Subscription Licenses

Licenses are rented on annual basis. The licenses are installed
on local machine provided by the client. The rental is
inclusive of annual maintenance cost. When subscription
period expires, the system will not be accessible anymore.

SaaS Subscription Licenses

Licenses are rented on annual basis. The licenses are installed
on a rented infrastructure included in the subscription fees.
Super User Contributor Viewer
When subscription period expires, the system will not be
accessible anymore.

• Enter and maintain information
• Develop and update diagrams
• Collaborate
• Participate in workflows
• Navigate Repository
• Generate reports
• View dashboards
• Enter and maintain specific
information
• Collaborate
• Participate in workflows
• Navigate repository
• Generate reports
• View dashboards
• Navigate repository
• Generate reports
• View dashboards Access Type
Named Users Concurrent Users
Client can define a limited Client can define as many users
number of users as per license as they want but access is
quantity. Access is granted for limited to any defined users up
those specific users by name. to the license quantity.

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 Hank you
F I T S C O N S U L T I N G

P R O B L E M . S O L V E D .

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