Embarcadero® All-Access™ XE is a powerful solution that transforms the way you buy tools by making it easier than ever to acquire, deploy, use, and manage the tools you need to design, build, and run your software applications and databases. All-Access XE reduces total cost of ownership, streamlines license management, and drives greater productivity by providing developers, architects, and DBAs with access to an entire tool chest of Embarcadero’s award-winning, multi-platform tools.

All-Access XE offers several cost benefits, and can even be a key component in positively affecting a company’s bottom line for their application development and database tool needs.

All-Access XE provides all of the benefits of Software as a Service without any of its drawbacks. Most SaaS models require you be connected to a third party in order to use the software, subjecting your critical systems to the inconsistencies of WAN and internet connectivity, and often times placing sensitive data outside your firewall. All-Access XE, by contrast, lets you run your software in house, centralizing the management of your own licenses inside your firewall and providing centralized provisioning of the tools.

• What Does All-Access XE Include
• Benefits of All-Access XE
• Vendor Consolidation
• Ease of Asset Provisioning and Management with Instant-On
• Greater License Transparency
• Reduced Hard Costs for Tools
• Greater Capability for the Technologists
• In Summary

What Does All-Access XE Include

• The industry’s only comprehensive multi-platform ToolBox for developers, architects, and DBAs
• Perpetual licenses for the products your team relies upon
• Privileged access to download and unlock products online or onsite, as you need them
• Access to any new products that may be introduced into your membership level
• Annual membership that includes support and maintenance to ensure your products are always up-to-date

Benefits of All-Access XE

• Lowers your overall cost for software management for developer, architect, and DBA tooling
• Reduces the complexity of license acquisition and management
• Provides the broadest multi-platform coverage available across the languages, frameworks, databases, and technologies your team needs to run your information systems

Vendor Consolidation

Because All-Access XE provides access to a complete ToolBox of both application development and database tools that span the most common programming languages and database platforms in use today, users can reduce the number of vendors they rely on and pay maintenance dollars to for their tooling needs. Companies can also realize an overall reduction in cost of tools per role because of the breadth of roles covered by the tools in All-Access XE, the price point of an All-Access XE membership, and the flexibility of concurrent licensing. Based on an internal study, it was determined that the cost of outfitting a single DBA with tools necessary to do their job is approximately $10,000 to $12,000. Moreover, you would have to deal with three to five vendors in order to acquire all of the tools necessary to support the full database lifecycle including modeling, implementation, administration, performance analysis, and change management. All-Access XE offers a comparable solution from a single vendor at an entry-level price of less than one-fourth of the cost.

Ease of Asset Provisioning and Management with Instant-On

Applications of an on-demand nature that leverage application virtualization technology are rapidly maturing, and could significantly reduce the TCO and change how IT departments buy and use software. Gartner Research recently reported, “Virtualized applications can reduce the costs of testing, packaging, and supporting an application by 60%.

Because each All-Access XE license enables access to all of the products in a given membership level, consolidating multiple license assets into one, IT organizations spend much less time and resources deploying and managing applications. Before an enterprise environment deploys an application, the IT department typically spends some amount of time and effort to integrate, test, and tune the application to insure it is well behaved within the existing IT landscape. All-Access XE helps companies reduce this cost with a feature called Embarcadero® InstantOn™, which enables the user to access any product through a “click-and-run” installation-free deployment model.   Aimed at simplifying deployment, enabling side-by-side versioning of products, and breaking down the barriers to use, InstantOn is also great in locked-down desktop environments, since the product does not affect any system files or system registry settings.

The All-Access XE client, called the Embarcadero® ToolBox™ is a lightweight client application that lets users see all of the available products, and launch them.  The ToolBox is used to launch products that are installed using the normal installation process, products for which you have one or more InstantOn executables on your local machine. The ToolBox can automatically obtain new software and licenses from the corporate ToolCloud.

Greater License Transparency

Embarcadero ToolCloud controls and manages licenses, while tracking license usage to offer greater license transparency. Administrators can easily control and report on software asset utilization via network licensing, and optimized utilization with Network Concurrent and Network Named User licensing.

Improved Asset Flexibility and Utilization with the ToolCloud

The key to flexibility for lean, agile teams is being able to easily reallocate licenses within teams or across the company. Licenses tied to individual desktops are difficult to share and move. Through the ToolCloud, both end users and software asset/license managers have the optimal model. For asset managers, they know exactly how much and who is using the licenses, so future purchases can be determined. For end users, once given access to a tool, they can get it on demand, have the latest versions, and even switch back and forth between versions.

Additionally, administrators can allow users to run in a disconnected mode for up to 30 days, and float licenses between different users and roles in the organization to maximize tool usage.

Reduced Hard Costs for Tools

Based on research into the costs associated with comparable tools of those included in All-Access XE, it can be shown that the cost of a single All-Access XE license (good question, I don’t hear it used a lot now. Lets use license to be safe.) is equivalent to the license and maintenance cost for roughly three typical included products over a 5-year term.

Greater Capability for the Technologists

Besides the hard costs associated with applications, there are a number of soft costs that are sometimes difficult to measure, and are frequently overlooked. Nevertheless, these costs are important and significant, and can sometimes outweigh simple license and maintenance costs. Factors such as developer productivity, application reliability, and code quality translate directly into savings or costs; depending on their level or magnitude in a given project.

In Summary

All-Access XE is changing the way companies look at software acquisition. It is a very different solution compared to the traditional software acquisition model, and provides a number of unique advantages that reduces the overall cost of managing software tooling.

For more information on Embarcadero® All-Access™ XE, please visit our website at http://www.embarcadero.com.pl/produkty/all-access