How do I harness the power of the license manager? What rights should I give to my customers? Let's first look at basic elements of a license that you can control, then look later at some other important parameters that can further refine your licensing policies.
Computer Modeling Group, LTD Licenses The Reprise License Manager (RLM)
Summary: Computer Modeling Group, Ltd., the world’s largest independent reservoir simulation vendor and the largest supplier of advanced processes modeling, has licensed the Reprise License Manager (RLM). “RLM’s simplicity, capability and value were apparent to us early on in our evaluation of various vendors,” stated Rob Eastick, Manager of Visualization and Deployment. “What made the …
Digitally Signing Licenses using Public Key Technology
Since software license keys contain entitlement information, it makes sense to protect those data from tampering and corruption. It would be tempting for an unscrupulous user to change a license count from 10 to 100 by simply tacking on an extra zero, or to upgrade your v2.0 licenses to v5.0 with a similarly simple edit.
PQ Systems turns to the Reprise License Manager (RLM) for concurrent-user Licensing Solution
Summary: “The license sharing feature provided in RLM’s product was another important component of PQ Systems’ decision-making. The company wanted to consume only one license token even when a user runs multiple instances of a protected application on a computer. Other vendors did not offer the license sharing, nor did they allow sharing licenses on …
Kineo Licenses the Reprise License Manager (RLM)
Summary: “Kineo CAM chose to migrate to the RLM system because of the overall value that Reprise Software was offering. RLM is simple, stable, and it is priced attractively. Reprise Software’s support and sales teams are very responsive.” About Kineo: Kineo Computer Aided Motion “Kineo CAM” is an independent software developer and the leading provider …
Use a License Manager to help Maximize your Recurring Revenue
Independent software companies are increasingly relying on innovative software licensing and pricing strategies to create steadier revenue streams. They are looking for smoother and more predictable revenue growth to make financial planning easier and to increase business efficiency and to maximize value to shareholders.
Cardiovascular Simulation, Inc. Licenses the Reprise License Manager (RLM)
Summary: “… One of our key contacts recommended RLM since they were using it already. We have been very happy with our experience to-date, and would highly recommend RLM to any small start-up such as ours that wants to focus on what makes you great and leave license management to the pros.” About CVSim: Cardiovascular …
Virtual License Pools
An important but easily overlooked aspect of a software license management system should be its support for and use of multiple license servers. The customers of software applications typically have more than one server machine on which to deploy license servers.
Pricing Strategies for Sublicensed Software Development Toolkits
Software pricing and licensing experts agree that optimal pricing strategies are rooted in value pricing. This means that the customer and the vendor find a satisfying middle ground where the value that the user receives from the software is proportional to the price that he pays.
Achronix Semiconductor Licenses the Reprise License Manaager (RLM)
Summary: Reprise Software Inc. today announced that Achronix Semiconductor, developer of the world’s fastest field programmable gate array (FPGA) called Speedster, has licensed the Reprise License Manager (RLM). ”The Reprise License Manager’s capability, simplicity and value were a good fit for our company,” said Raymond Nijssen, chief software architect at Achronix Semiconductor. “We were impressed …