Vendors need flexible licensing solutions that let them quickly create new pricing models and product configurations so they can target new market segments effectively. At the same time, they need license-compliance solutions that ensure software security.
Macrovision FLEXnet™ Publisher Licensing Module is the only licensing solution that gives technology companies complete flexibility in deciding which licensing terms and pricing models to use in packaging and selling their products.
For software security, the Licensing Module provides a cursory level of protection against unauthorized use—by essentially helping “honest customers stay honest.” For added protection, the Enhanced Security module offers an excellent complement to the Licensing Module with its award-winning tamper-resistant technologies.
KEY BENEFITS
- Creatively price for broader market penetration and deeper account penetration
- Increase product revenues through flexible product bundling and product configuration
- Recapture revenues lost to piracy and unlicensed use
KEY FUNCTIONALITY
- Price products the way customers want
- Rapidly customize product licensing and packaging terms to penetrate new customer segments
- Package software flexibly to meet market demand
- Protect products and prevent revenue leakage
Price, Package and License Software Any Way Your Customers Want
In today’s market, software and hardware vendors need flexible licensing solutions that let them quickly create new pricing models and product configurations so they can target new market segments effectively. At the same time, they need comprehensive license-compliance solutions that ensure software security, prevent ongoing revenue loss from unauthorized software use and are scalable and extendible to support their customers’ future needs.
Macrovision FLEXnet™ Publisher Licensing Module is the only licensing solution that gives technology companies complete flexibility in deciding which licensing terms and pricing models to use in packaging and selling their products. For software security, the Licensing Module provides a cursory level of protection against unauthorized use—by essentially helping “honest customers stay honest.” For added protection, the Enhanced Security module offers an excellent complement to the Licensing Module with its award-winning tamper-resistant technologies.
Once a software product is FLEXenabled, the Licensing Module enables vendors to change their pricing and packaging without changing their products. All licensing changes are incorporated in the plain text digitally signed electronic certificate sent to the customer. In addition, the Licensing Module allows users to rapidly introduce products with simple licensing models, like locked licensing, and then easily migrate to more sophisticated ones, like floating licensing and product bundle licensing—without infrastructure upgrades.
Benefits to Software and Hardware Vendors
- Creatively price for broader market penetration and deeper account penetration
- Increase product revenues through flexible product bundling and product configuration
- Recapture revenues lost to piracy and unlicensed use
Product Detail
Price products the way customers want
- Deploy licensing models that price discriminate between “heavy,” “medium” and “light” users
- Select from over 1,000 licensing models, including Locked, Floating, Named User, Site, Capacity (CPU, Memory, Disk), Subscription and Time Limited
- Offer unique usage terms for licensed products, including temporarily detached use of a network licensed product (i.e., “Pack & Go”)
- Obtain premium prices for allowing concurrent access to licensed products, while enforcing a maximum limit on the number of users (or connections)
- Create and enforce volume licensing terms for single user software sold into enterprise accounts
- Easily change pricing and licensing terms at a moments notice:
- Switch between licensing models easily with no product modifications
- Control availability of licensed applications by department, location and more
Package software flexibly to meet market demand
- Quickly create “lite,” “standard” and “premium” product versions that target different customers or markets by using electronic license certificates to turn software features on and off
- Change usage terms after shipment to maximize product revenues when customer usage patterns shift
- Cross-sell and up-sell products licensed together as packages and suites, including products acquired from other vendors
Protect products and prevent revenue leakage
- Ensure only authorized users (or a predetermined maximum number of users) can access the product
- Lock products so they can only be installed and run on authorized machines
