As software and hardware vendors expand their product offerings, their packaging and licensing environments become more and more complex. Multiple licensing schemes result in inefficient back-office license management, slowing time to market and decreasing gross revenues by as much as 20 percent.
Macrovision's FLEXnet™ Operations simplifies license management by giving vendors a single view across multiple Macrovision FLEXnet and homegrown licensing technologies. The easy-to-use software provides a complete back-office operations solution for automating the creation and management of packages, licensing schemes and entitlements – reducing fulfillment and support costs while maximizing upgrade and renewal revenues.
KEY BENEFITS
- Increase revenues by proactively tracking licenses and entitlements through the entire license lifecycle
- Enhance efficiency by building flexible processes and systems to cost-effectively test and implement new pricing and packaging
- Reduce operational and software distribution costs throughout the organization by making it easy to create and maintain products, entitlements and licenses – across multiple licensing schemes
KEY FUNCTIONALITY
- A single operations view to integrate products across multiple licensing schemes
- Automated license renewal tracking and management to recoup lost revenue
- Web-based self-service portal for license generation and change management
- Full integration with ERP & CRM systems
- Advanced entitlement management configurable for complex products and sales channels
As software and hardware vendors expand their product offerings, their packaging and licensing environments become more and more complex. Multiple licensing schemes result in inefficient back-office license management, slowing time to market and decreasing gross revenues by as much as 20 percent.
Macrovision's FLEXnet™ Operations simplifies license management by giving vendors a single view across multiple Macrovision FLEXnet and homegrown licensing technologies. The easy-to-use software provides a complete back-office operations solution for the creation and management of packages, licensing schemes and entitlements.
FLEXnet Operations allows companies to automate the entire license management and entitlement lifecycle, maximizing upgrade and renewal revenues while reducing fulfillment and support costs. Vendors can flexibly define license models, and generate and fulfill licenses – all without involving IT or development staff. By integrating FLEXnet Operations with accounting and CRM applications, it's possible to automate order entry, license generation, fulfillment, and change requests from customers.
No matter how you configure FLEXnet Operations, you will maximize the value of all your Macrovision FLEXnet and homegrown licensing solutions.
Benefits to Software and Hardware Vendors
- Increase revenues by proactively tracking licenses and entitlements through the entire license lifecycle
- Enhance efficiency by building flexible processes and systems to cost-effectively test and implement new pricing and packaging
- Reduce operational and software distribution costs throughout the organization by making it easy to create and maintain products, entitlements and licenses – across multiple licensing schemes
Product Detail
Grow revenues
- Maximize upgrade revenue for products and/or support by proactively tracking version levels and upgrade entitlement
- Optimize renewal revenue for licenses and/or support by proactively tracking expiring licenses and support contracts
- Build new revenue streams with the ability to flexibly create and package products
Lower license generation and fulfillment costs
- Bring products with multiple licensing schemes under a single operations view
- Allow order entry staff to rapidly generate and email licenses
- Empower end users and channel partners to view entitlements and self-serve their licenses 24x7, including the ability to fulfill partial orders
- Eliminate manual data entry by automatically flowing orders from ERP and CRM applications to create entitlements and licenses
- Enable sales reps or prospective end users to self-serve demo/evaluation licenses
- Minimize IT application costs associated with maintaining an in-house system
- Easily customize, generate, print and email entitlement certificates to customers
Minimize support costs
- 24x7 online support available – Empower end users and channel partners to return/rehost licenses or reassign entitlements without calling your support staff
- Hands-free activation available – Automatically activate products without involving customer support
