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Increase Revenue and Protect Software with Flexible Licensing and Advanced Security

Documentation

Increase revenue and protect software from unauthorized use without impacting your customers.
This FAQ is for FLEXnet Licensing publishers who want information regarding FLEXnet ID dongle hostid types. This document applies to FLEXnet ID Drivers v2.0.

Case Studies

Foray Technologies is the developer of a comprehensive suite of sophisticated digital asset management and authentication products. Its custom imaging and chain of custody solutions are used by law enforcement professionals worldwide – a customer base that is growing rapidly, thanks to the streamlined licensing and entitlement processes enabled by Acresso FLEXnet Suite for Software Producers.
MapInfo transformed its global licensing operations with FLEXnet Operations and FLEXnet Publisher. They have been able to implement licensing and entitlement management across their MapInfo Professional product line, broadening the licensing models available to customers without causing pains internally or to customers.
Visual Numerics, with its long history with Acresso and confidence in the quality of its products, found it easy to make the decision to switch from one product to another. The company began the switch to FLEXnet Publisher by putting an evaluation team together. After a three month review of the product and documentation, Visual Numerics was confident that the change would not affect their customers or their engineering team.
In considering licensing solutions, reliability, longevity and support for all SlickEdit platforms topped the list of criteria. On all counts, FLEXnet Publisher stood out as the market leader. Adding to the solution’s credibility, key customers were requesting that SlickEdit bring in FLEXnet Publisher.
National Instruments lacked an electronic licensing solution, making it tough for their worldwide customers, such as Motorola and DaimlerChrysler, to keep up with licenses. With customers requesting license management, National Instruments knew it needed a more effective solution. National Instruments chose FLEXnet Publisher, which enables software producers and high-tech device manufacturers to flexibly price, package and protect their product offerings, as well as profitably manage licenses throughout their lifecycle.
BASIS International faced an ongoing challenge in keeping its licensing strategy secure given the considerable number of product ports. BASIS supports a variety of client/server platforms — from SCO UNIX, Windows, Linux, and other NIX's, to any platform supporting a Java Virtual Machine. BASIS literally supports more than 100 different product ports on various platforms. Managing the licensing of this dynamic and complex landscape became a growing concern. BASIS turned to Acresso solution suite to protect all of its software development products.

Testimonials

"IT buyers wish to focus on allocating resources more efficiently and generating ROI, which means negotiating the most beneficial license agreements. In this environment, FLEXnet Publisher can help software vendors deliver customized licensing solutions and the terms to go with them."

Amy Konary
Analyst
IDC

"Adobe outlined an extensive set of business and technology requirements for electronic license management, and the new FLEXnet Publisher platform proved to be the \most capable product in the market. FLEXnet Publisher enables Adobe to provide enterprise customers with a more effective means of managing their Adobe software licenses and monitoring usage throughout their organizations. Macrovision’s expertise and technology address the unique requirements within our consumer, enterprise and education market segments, and will ultimately help us provide new licensing models and better answer the evolving needs of our customers."

Drew McManus
Director of anti-piracy operations
Adobe

 

 “Our customers expressed a desire to pay for the software they used in a more accurate way and wanted greater flexibility in applying licenses across the entire product suite. FLEXnet is helping us to remain competitive in the market, and we can now relate and adapt to our customer's needs more quickly and effectively. As we continue to evolve our product line, we see FLEXnet as a key component of keeping us agile and customer-focused.”

GaryDransfield
Commercial Manager
AVEVA Engineering

White Papers

This white paper describes how the core concept of software licensing management is changing from value-exchange model based on one-off transactions to an integrated model built on an ongoing relationship between a software publisher and the customer.
Written by IDC and Sponsored by Acresso.
Increasing Customer Satisfaction with Improved License Implementation
(FLEXible License Manager™) to License their Software

Webinars

View this informative webinar for the latest strategies for cutting fulfillment and support costs and realizing faster revenue recognition.
A recent study by McKinsey & Co found that software publishers miss out on 20% of gross revenues, which translates into 5 - 10% lower gross profits. Disparate licensing schemes coupled with a rapidly growing product portfolio can result in a complex license environment that is hard to secure, increases time to market and reduces revenues. Listen to licensing experts discuss best practices of software licensing that can help you achieve lowered support costs, deploy new products quickly and ensure continuous compliance.