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Benefits
..."What we need is a simple to buy and simply to deploy system that doesn’t cost the earth. One that doesn’t need lots of maintenance and capital cost would be great too."
A hosted model meets these needs and without the hassles and engineering demands of “rolling your own” application licensing system.
In addition, it's a significantly more flexible and lower cost way to get access to a modern and powerful licensing and software copy protection platform.
Quick overview of the benefits of
the Nalpeiron Licensing Service (NLS)
Increase revenue
- Reduce casual piracy - Making your products easily available but controlling their use with the NLS helps increase revenues by reducing piracy and increasing market share. Of course the service controls how many PCs that can use your Software and can't be easily tampered with to re-start the trial period. More than the allowed number of activations will be met with a simple message, configurable by you, preventing further installations.
An automated solution that is always operational enables you to deliver software to your users with the confidence that they can purchase the full product or carry out upgrades at any time. This also makes it possible to sell software more easily across multiple time zones and geographic regions, maximizing your revenue opportunities.Nalpeiron provides many unique ways to prevent casual piracy too, such as blocking cloning (Norton Ghost, MS VirtualPC and VMWare).
- Increase license agility - NLS allows you to control, market, measure, report and manage their applications plus capture license abuse - all online. It also enables you to price, package and protect your software in a variety of flexible ways. Selling software any way your customers want to buy it. This flexibility enables you to use feature, subscription, leasing and usage-based models to maximize revenues. We call it Total License Agility.
There’s nothing more annoying to customers than just being locked out of their software so the Nalpeiron Licensing Service uses an automated ‘Overdraft’ facility to handle any “over use”. If someone within an end user exceeds the license limit, the license code and the associated registered user details are flagged along with the details necessary to enable customer service staff to contact the user of the code to find out more. You then have the choice of either allowing the use to continue, or to ask for more license fees.
- Total trial
flexibility -
Instead of simply having a 30 day trial on a cut down or full
version of your product, how about having a trial on a set of
functionality such as the ability to print or run certain
processes. What about offering all the features for a period and
then having them degrade until you get paid. How about having a
sub-set of features on trial while others are are already fully
functional to encourage an upgrade. You can make trials from 1
minute to months long and attach the trial time or usage to a
set of features rather then the whole program enablng you to
tease the end user unto buying more or upgrading to a more
functional product - all generating more sales and better
margins.
Grow market share
Grow your product's revenue by increasing the number of trials, enabling it to have a greater presence in the marketplace. NLS enables end users to evaluate fully functional versions of your software — not stripped versions — which may increase the likelihood of them purchasing your product. Plus, the streamlined and hassle-free product activation process — the trial version of your product seamlessly converts itself into a purchased product in one simple step; no need to re-ship a 'full' version.
Reduce operational costs
One attraction of the Activation and Registration Service is that it is automated and managed for you, so freeing you from the need to devote expensive resources to handling the licensing side. This has many benefits and reduces the overhead on skilled staff spending time issuing authorization keys and sorting out licensing. You also get the ability to manage everything in one place with a total end user license history including which machines they are licensed on and when they activated. Manually issuing licenses via the phone or email is time consuming and very expensive compared to issuing them automatically via the Internet. Of course you can also offer manual and self-service activation to ensure that all your users are happy and to minimize any calls to your service desk.
Reduce support costs
The Nalpeiron client side Protect-n-Forget (PnF) protection system reduces support calls in the following ways:
- Users who have reformatted or upgraded their Windows PCs can still use their licenses unlike other protection systems.
- The ‘minute-to-move’ license management system enables customers to move licenses between machines easily without technical help.
- An optional self-service system on the Nalpeiron licensing web site reduces phone interactions.
- NLS cuts down on calls from mobile users without connectivity because it does not require a connection to the Internet to monitor licenses.
- NLS reduces rekeying errors by avoiding long alphanumeric license keys.
Reduce capital costs
Using a service rather than setting up your own server with scripts saves a lot of time and hassle. It also saves you the cost of buying new servers or finding a reliable ISP that will host unauthorized scripts. Not forgetting the specialist coding skills, bandwidth costs and maintenance required to support authorization.
Reduce time to market
Products can be copy protected and placed into a license management framework in a single afternoon. As you can start using this service 'right out of the box' with all the utilities provided, that can be added to your products in an afternoon, you can start taking advantage of this exciting new way to distribute products right away - no delays.
Collect useful sales and marketing data
Use our customer portal to track how well a promotion is working, or to monitor how well a product release or a feature enhancement is performing in the marketplace. See who has activated your products and at what rates they are doing so.
Easy integration to your systems
The Nalpeiron Licensing Service exposes a full range of secure software and web services API’s so it can be controlled by your systems. In addition, it can securely deliver licenses to your e-commerce providers. Integration with Salesforce.com and Visual Studio make life even easier.