The goal of the usage analysis is that you receive information about how much the users in your network use specific products. This is not about spying on your employees. The goal is to identify unused license potential, to save license costs. It doesn’t make sense to have Microsoft Office on all computers of the network if nobody ever uses it on certain PCs. If the users only need outlook, they don’t need a complete office. The usage analysis helps you find possible savings and display them.
After you have collected data during a specified period of time, you can access interesting reports that can be the base for your license optimization. For example, you get to know that 30% of all office installations are useless, because no one uses them. You can save those licenses and possibly scale down your license agreements next time. This way license management starts to help you save costs effectively. This helps especially in larger companies where volume agreements are signed just because of rough guessing.