Top 10 Features
Premier Edition Professional Edition NEW! Entitlement-Based Software Delivery
Send applications and updates to users based on their maintenance status, ensuring that only eligible customers - such as those with valid maintenance and support contracts - receive your software and updates.
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Only FLEXnet Connect has n-tier software distribution, enabling you to stay connected to customers managed by IT administrators.Promotional Campaign Support
FLEXnet Connect makes it easy for you to execute promotional campaigns by automatically sending a series of HTML messages at predefined times (such as whenever they click on a certain product feature) to the people using or evaluating your software.Global Software Manager
The Software Manager is a shared desktop tool enabling your end users to view the list of available applications, updates, and messages for all their FLEXnet Connect-enabled software. Including the global Software Manager with your software and having it list your products is fully optional and can be done with zero engineering.Display Updates in 33 Languages
Show your commitment to your international customers by providing application and update messages in their local language. FLEXnet Connect localizes your runtime strings according to Microsoft's exacting translation guidelines, enabling you to deliver your message text in any of the 33 supported languages.Customer End-User Reporting
If your relationship with your enterprise customers permits, you can generate reports on when and how their end users are using your products, which updates they have installed, and more.Detailed Usage Reporting
Get the facts on your installed base of customers and their current software version. FLEXnet Connect reporting component tells you how many active customers you have and what release each specific customer is running.Unique Usage or Total Usage Reporting
FLEXnet Connect reports can be run against unique usage or total usage. Unique usage measures the number of unique users of your software, while total usage measures the total number of times that users have interacted with FLEXnet Connect.Scalable to Millions of Users
ISVs can invest in FLEXnet Connect with confidence, knowing that no matter how big your user base gets, FLEXnet Connect will effectively scale to meet the increased demand while requiring a minimum of additional servers.Target Using Custom Client and Server Extensions
FLEXnet Connect has pre-built conditions that allow you to target your updates to the right users. If you need to extend this targeting, you can author custom client or server-side conditions to determine if an update should be applied.
