Elm - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Excerpts from a real customer's success story:

The elm Solution
The Company chose elm from evoleap several years ago and has never looked back. elm gave the Company immediate and dramatic efficiency improvements and delivered the business insights needed to grow in a new way.

Real Return on Investment
Now, maintenance of the licensing solution and support of the end-user community takes much less time. The Company was able to save over $200,000 per year by reassigning employees from the Support Team to another functions. Additionally, the refocusing of the Sales Team on selling, the refocusing of the Development Team on Product functionality enhancements, and the reliable business insights into product utilization and customer personas were key to enabling the company to doubling revenue in 3 years. This translates into tens of millions of dollars of increased Company valuation.

Efficiency
The ability to reliably manage thousands of users with just a few mouse clicks allowed the Support Team to reclaim workload that had been taken on by other teams. The online portal that enables administrators within client companies to manage their own cloud and desktop users, within the bounds of the license agreement, further reduced this workload. One employee was able to be reassigned from the Support Team and up to 20% of the Sales Team’s time was reallocated to revenue generation. This equated to over 70 hours per week of additional capacity.

Confidence
The customer portal for license management made allies of once adversarial relationships with customer IT Teams, modernized the software deployment experience, and reduced hassles associated with annual customer contract renewals. The improvement in customers’ perception of the brand’s IT maturity and application reliability was immediately apparent.

The reliable, cross-platform data on product utilization gave the Sales Team confidence that they were well-informed when engaging customers for upsells, cross-sells, and renewals. Likewise, the Company leadership team was able to make data-driven decisions about product management and optimize licensing and pricing models.

Affordability
At the outset, taking on elm was an incremental cost vs. the legacy solutions. However, the low, fixed price structure compared to other comparable solutions made the decision easy. The annual spend on this product was easily determined to be less than the internal billing hours spent by the development and support teams alone. Further, having a fixed cost structure for licensing a large end-user community that was expected to grow substantially made elm significantly less expensive than the competition.

Sustainability & Scalability
The Development and Support Teams realized significant productivity gains by trading the legacy solutions for elm. They receive reliable support and regular updates from evoleap, relieving the internal teams with added tasks of maintaining software licensing and utilization analysis solutions.

Now, the teams focus on their core areas of expertise in improving the user experience for mechanical and chemical engineering calculations, and rest assured that the licensing solution will remain reliable as the user base grows and each user spends more time using the Company’s products.