Case Study: Bajaj Auto achieves right-sized PLM software investments and optimized license utilization with Altair's HiQube SAO solution

Right-Sizing PLM Software Investments

Bajaj Auto, one of the world’s largest motorcycle and three‑wheeler manufacturers, struggled to consolidate and manage PLM, CAD, CAE, CFD and NVH software licenses across multiple sites and departments. Manual snapshots and fragmented license servers left R&D and IT without reliable utilization data for capacity planning and procurement. To address this, Bajaj Auto partnered with Altair to deploy a Software Asset Optimization (SAO) solution based on Altair’s HiQube business analytics platform.

Altair implemented a turnkey SAO stack—data collection agents on license servers, a consolidated RDBMS, HiQube analytics and web/mobile dashboards—delivering consolidated, near‑real‑time visibility within days. The Altair solution gave Bajaj actionable dashboards for inventory, usage by title/shift, denial alerts and what‑if simulations, enabling data‑driven procurement, quantified migration progress between CAD platforms, reduced license denials and better license utilization. According to Bajaj, every PLM license purchase is now supported by a business case using insights from Altair’s HiQube SAO implementation.

Bajaj Auto

S. Vishwanathan

General Manager, Research and Development Division