Innovation Insight: Original Solution Orchestrators Extend Innovation in the Demand-Driven Supply Chain
The manufacturing business is changing. To remain competitive and drive growth in the face of a demanding marketplace, device manufacturers are differentiating themselves by rethinking their business models and product strategies. Today, more and more manufactures are transforming their business models to be more solution centric, where software drives differentiation and value.
FlexNet Licensing: Resources
Protect and Monetize Your IP with Flexible Software Licensing–On-Premises, SaaS, Cloud, Virtualized and Embedded Applications
Why software license compliance management matters?
FlexNet Licensing empowers application producers to combat software piracy and increase revenues by easily enabling new pricing, packaging and software licensing models. It supports the full software licensing spectrum, from strict enforcement to usage-based trust but verify, and enables software protection, monetization and compliance of on-premises, SaaS, cloud, virtualized and embedded applications.
Datasheets
FlexNet Licensing Datasheet
Protect and monetize your IP with flexible software licensing–on-premises, SaaS, cloud, virtualized and embedded applications.
Compliance Management Solution for Application Producers Datasheet
Protect and monetize your on-premises, cloud, SaaS, virtualized and embedded apps with an array of software licensing models.
FlexNet Producer Suite for Intelligent Device Manufacturers Brochure
Innovate products faster, streamline device lifecycle and entitlement management, and simplify software delivery and updates to devices. Also available in German, Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.
FlexNet Producer Suite for Software Vendors Brochure
Innovate products faster, streamline entitlement management and simplify software delivery and updates. Also available in Japanese, German, Korean, Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Virtualization Complexities Impact Your Software Licensing Policy
FlexNet Licensing enables software vendors to embrace machine virtualization by providing various means to enforce software licensing on virtual machines. This white paper describes approaches and technologies available today and looks into those being considered in the future to address machine virtualization. Also available in Japanese.
Guides, Manuals & Help
FlexNet ID Dongle FAQs
This FAQ is aimed at software vendors and high-tech manufacturers who need additional information on the FlexNet ID Dongle Drivers v2.0.
Common Vendor Daemon FAQs
This FAQ is aimed at software vendors and high-tech manufacturers who need additional information on Common Vendor Daemons.
FlexNet Publisher Guides
Manuals for this product are available on the Flexera Software Product Support site for customers with current maintenance agreements. A log in is required to view the documents. If you don't have a user name and password for that site, click the "request a login" link on the site's main page.
Success Stories
Sentinel IC Technologies Reaps Immediate 300% Return On Investment in FlexNet Licensing
As a global provider of design productivity software for analog semiconductor design, Sentinel IC Technologies is committed to providing state-of-the-art technology to their customers. And increasingly, their customer base is seeking ways to harness the capabilities of cloud and virtualization technologies. This compelled Sentinel IC to search for a solution that allowed them to more effectively monetize their solutions in this space, while also minimizing revenue leakage. Also available in Japanese.
Convey Computer Delivers Value with FlexNet Producer Suite
Discover how Convey Computer uses FlexNet licensing technology to ship a single, complete version of its hybrid-core system and associated SDK to all customers, selectively enabling/disabling features for both the initial trial and any new requirements that emerge over time.
CPU Tech: Differentiating Its Security Hardware with Role- and Feature-Based Software Licensing and Entitlement Management
Learn how CPU Tech addresses the unique security needs of their company's defense contractor customers, and how embedded software licensing and entitlement managment enables those users to access secure devices with confidence and in full compliance of security regulations. Also available in Chinese.
PMDG Slashes the Business Costs of Software Piracy with FlexNet Producer Suite for Software Vendors
With FlexNet Producer Suite, PMDG has effectively eliminated revenue leakage, increased customer satisfaction with the activation process, and an 83 percent drop in support costs related to licensing and system activation.
Foray Technologies Expands Its Global Market by Simplifying Entitlement Management with FlexNet Producer Suite for Software Vendors
Foray Technologies is the developer of a comprehensive suite of sophisticated digital asset management and authentication products. Its custom imaging and chain of custody solutions are used by law enforcement professionals worldwide – a customer base that is growing rapidly, thanks to the streamlined software licensing and entitlement management processes enabled by Flexera Software FlexNet Producer Suite for Software vendors.
Pitney Bowes MapInfo Matches Its Solutions' World-Class Capabilities with Licensing Solutions from Flexera Software
MapInfo transformed its global software licensing operations with FlexNet Operations and FlexNet Publisher. MapInfo has been able to implement software licensing and entitlement management across their MapInfo Professional product line, broadening the software licensing models available to customers without causing pains internally or to customers. Also available in German.
BASIS International Ltd. Automates Its Highly Complex Software Licensing Environment with FlexNet Licensing
BASIS International faced an ongoing challenge in keeping its software licensing strategy secure given the considerable number of product ports. BASIS supports a variety of client/server platforms — from SCO UNIX, Windows, Linux, and other NIX's, to any platform supporting a Java Virtual Machine. BASIS literally supports more than 100 different product ports on various platforms. Managing the licensing of this dynamic and complex landscape became a growing concern. BASIS turned to Flexera Software to protect all of its software development products.
Testimonials
"In addition to effectively eliminating revenue leakage due to piracy, FlexNet Producer Suite has allowed us to improve customer satisfaction and reduce our operating costs. For a small software producer like PMDG, all of these benefits travel straight to the bottom line."
Robert Randazzo
Chief Executive Officer
PMDG
"IT buyers wish to focus on allocating resources more efficiently and generating ROI, which means negotiating the most beneficial license agreements. In this environment, FlexNet Publisher can help software vendors deliver customized licensing solutions and the terms to go with them."
Amy Konary
Research Director
Software Pricing, Licensing and Delivery
IDC
"We knew we would be gaining advantages by universally automating product licensing, but we wanted to make the transformation as seamless as possible for our customers and colleagues. We felt we were well-positioned to take what Flexera Software had and integrate it with our product line and create a combined offering that would be attractive to our customers."
Chuck Schwerin
Senior Product Manager of Licensing Technologies
MapInfo
"Our customers expressed a desire to pay for the software they used in a more accurate way and wanted greater flexibility in applying licenses across the entire product suite. FlexNet is helping us to remain competitive in the market, and we can now relate and adapt to our customer's needs more quickly and effectively. As we continue to evolve our product line, we see FlexNet as a key component of keeping us agile and customer-focused."
GaryDransfield
Commercial Manager
AVEVA Engineering
"As Foray Technologies expands its business globally, we really need the power and flexibility that we can get only from a mature solution like FlexNet Producer Suite. There's no way we could approach its level of speed and sophistication with an internally developed solution."
Mont Rothstein
Vice President of Product Development
Foray Technologies
Flexera Software's embedded software licensing and entitlement management solution enables CPU Tech to protect our intellectual property and allow the customer to operate in a classified/ secure area without internet access. We needed a solution that enables a solid revenue model without expanding our manufacturing costs."
"With Flexera Software we can now easily upgrade and downgrade our customers without deploying additional hardware as well as offer them licensing and pricing models based on roles and features."
Ryan Kenny
CPU Tech
"We are serving our customers better with faster velocity and greater agility. Flexera Software has helped Siemens Building Technologies to reduce the manufacturing complexity of a very sophisticated product line down to just a few models."
Duane Keenan
Manager, Integrated Solutions
Siemens Building Technologies
"We often talk about the virtues of demand shaping and increasing agility through postponement. But we typically think of the physical piece of equipment or machinery, not the opportunities to conduct these practices through smart management of embedded software. By using Flexera Software's software entitlement and compliance management products, however, manufacturers can reduce SKUs through flexible software configuration and provide self-service capabilities for managing software features, maintenance, and upgrades. For example, Siemens Building Technologies has reduced the number of physical models of automation systems from hundreds of SKUs to just a few. Cycle times have been cut from weeks to days with systems flexibly customized in the field."
Jane Barrett
AMR Research
Industry Value Chain Strategies "Cool Technologies for the Industrial Value Network
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White Papers
IDC Report: Hardware Companies Face Unique Challenges in Growing Software Revenue
This IDC Report discusses some of the unique software licensing challenges faced by hardware companies and includes recommendations for elevating the value of software in hardware companies as well as licensing trends that impact these firms.
Innovation Insight: Original Solution Orchestrators Extend Innovation in the Demand-Driven Supply Chain
The manufacturing business is changing. To remain competitive and drive growth in the face of a demanding marketplace, device manufacturers are differentiating themselves by rethinking their business models and product strategies. Today, more and more manufacturers are transforming their business models to be more solution centric, where software drives differentiation and value.
Software License Compliance Management: Optimizing Software Revenue and Customer Satisfaction
This white paper examines the pros and cons of traditional compliance management approaches, the impact technology has on compliance management, the increasing complexity of software licensing models, and the growing trend towards trust but verify compliance management approaches.
Software Business Impacts from Machine Virtualization: Protecting Monetization in a Virtual World
Machine virtualization has swept through enterprises, big and small - creating significant issues for both software producers and enterprise customers - and a wide "vendor-customer gap" in customer desires and application vendors' practices. Learn how application vendors traditionally have placed the burden on customers to close this gap; and how today it is shifting back to them and the steps needed to close the gaps.
Extending Your Software Revenue in a Virtual World
Virtualization technologies are posing new challenges for software vendors to enforce their software license agreements using traditional software licensing models. Learn how FlexNet Publisher will enable software vendors to embrace virtualization by providing various means to enforce licensing on virtual machines. Also available in French, German and Korean.
Embedded Software Is an Enabler of Demand-Driven Supply Chain Orchestration
This report, prepared by Gartner, discusses how the use of embedded software to create efficiency, grow revenue and increase customer satisfaction has spread across the discrete manufacturing industries. Flexera Software is featured prominently in this report.
Trusted Storage Unique Identifier Usage Guidelines
FlexNet Publisher Trusted Storage Unique Identifier Usage Guideline White Paper presents an evolution of the various methods that FlexNet Publisher Trusted Storage has utilized to identify a client system to its server with an emphasis on best practice recommendations of using the Unique Machine Number (UMN).
10 Reasons to Buy a Software Licensing & Entitlement Management Solution
This white paper, authored by Cris Wendt, a Strategy Principal Consultant with Flexera Software, explores the top 10 reasons why most software vendors and intelligent device manufactures choose to buy a COTS software licensing and entitlement management solution. Also availble in German.
Keep Your Customers Close and Your Channels Closer
This white paper provides five strategies for achieving customer intimacy and revenue growth. The white paper addresses the key channel management challenges and provides best practices and strategies for overcoming these challenges.
"Pay As You Grow" Electronic Licensing
A practical guide to achieving profitable growth with innovative business and license models for intelligent device manufacturers.
How Software Licensing Helps Manufacturers Generate Value from Embedded Software
This report, prepared by IDC, shows how increasingly, software licensing is helping manufacturers generate value from embedded software by providing an additional, high-margin revenue stream, protecting intellectual property (IP) from misuse, simplifying product packaging while allowing for more flexible configurations and lowering inventory costs by decreasing the number of SKUs needed to satisfy unique customer demands.
How to Grow SaaS Revenue, Profits and Market Share with Use-Appropriate Software Licensing and Pricing
The initial wave of software-as-a-service (SaaS) was characterized by "one-size-fits-all" pricing. This was largely because SaaS vendors were out to pioneer a new market—and simplicity was a cornerstone of their pitch to early adopters. The offer of extremely simple and economical pricing helped these vendors overcome whatever resistance they may have encountered to a new and unproven model for software delivery.
2012 Key Trends Software Pricing and Licensing Report
The 2012 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Survey, prepared with assistance from IDC, found that software vendors and their enterprise customers, increasingly challenged by the economy, are looking for better strategies to derive more value for their organizations through software licensing and pricing. While, not surprisingly, some of those strategies diverge between producers and consumers, many are complementary and serve to strengthen the positions of both.
Licensing and Customer Satisfaction Managing Entitlement: An Age-Old Problem in Digital Industries
Software licensing has evolved from simple licensing into Entitlement and Compliance Management. This white paper describes how the core concept of software license management is changing from value-exchange model based on one-off transactions to an integrated model built on an ongoing relationship between a software publisher and the customer.
On-Demand Webinars
Software Licensing and Entitlement Management Next Generation Best Practices Webinar Series
Thursday, March 05, 2111
View this Webinar series focusing on next generation best practices for licensing and entitlement management. The series is designed to help you succeed in the fast-paced and ever-changing software marketplace with use cases and strategies for increasing your software profitability.
Time-Based Licensing Models
Thursday, January 01, 2111
Flexera Software's Licensing Specialist Cris Wendt hosts this on-demand webinar, which is part of the Modernizing Your Software Licensing Approach series. During this Webinar, Cris will provide an introduction to this innovative licensing concept and the basics of different time-based licenses. Cris will also talk on how they are used by different software publishers to provide business benefits.
2011 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing and 2012 Predictions
Monday, January 26, 2111
Watch this Webinar with Flexera Software and special guest speaker Amy Konary, Research Vice President - Software Licensing and Provisioning at IDC for a review of the 2011 Software Licensing and Pricing survey results. You will hear a summary of the key software licensing and pricing findings from the survey and 2012 predictions, including areas such as:
- Software Licensing Enforcement
- Audits
- Licensing Effectiveness
- Entitlements
Growing Revenues Through Intelligent Device Monetization
Tuesday, July 07, 2111
Watch this Webinar to learn how the FlexNet Producer Suite empowers intelligent device manufacturers to unlock new revenue streams by utilizing licensing, pricing, and packaging to monetize intelligent devices, provision capacity and move to virtual appliances. You'll be updated on the latest enhancements and new capabilities offered in the suite and learn about specific high-tech use cases and success stories. Learn about ways to create incremental revenue streams by monetizing devices, software applications and feature enhancements as well as enable customers to electronically manage and service feature and capacity requests on-demand.
The Journey: Creating One Avid
Sunday, February 08, 2111
The 2011 SoftSummit Keynote Address featured Chris Gahagan, SVP of Products and Solutions for Avid.Chris outlined Avid's licensing framework requirements and from there describes Avid's journey of creating a unified licensing framework, including: getting started, getting smart, getting validation, getting committed, getting busy and finally going live.
Making the Most (Money) with Your SaaS Offering
Tuesday, July 07, 2111
Watch this information-packed SaaS webinar series designed to help you succeed in the fast-paced and ever-changing SaaS marketplace. You'll hear from SaaS industry experts, including Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies and Jim Geisman, Founder of Software Pricing Partners, as well as SaaS thought-leaders from Flexera Software. Each 30-minute webinar in the series addresses key issues and provides strategies for optimizing the monetary potential of your SaaS offerings.
Keep Your Customers Close and Your Channels Closer
Tuesday, July 07, 2111
During this Webinar, we'll provide five strategies for achieving customer intimacy and revenue growth. We'll address the key channel management challenges and provide best practices and strategies for overcoming these challenges.
Embedded Computing Design E-Cast
Tuesday, July 07, 2111
Speed Time to Market While Growing Revenues Through Device Monetization
In this E-cast, experts from both Flexera Software and CPU Tech will show you how to craft creative equipment licensing and lifecycle management approaches that will cut costs, create new revenue streams, and improve your competitive position.
In this E-cast, experts from both Flexera Software and CPU Tech will show you how to craft creative equipment licensing and lifecycle management approaches that will cut costs, create new revenue streams, and improve your competitive position.
Machine Virtualization—Is It Impacting Your Software Business?
Tuesday, July 07, 2111
This informational Webinar talks about our white paper research showcasing the current market situation, discusses how the industry got into such a state of limbo and details the steps needed to ensure a positive outcome for you and your customers.
Creative Licensing Approaches for Telcos and Their Vendors
Tuesday, July 07, 2111
Telecommunication and networking equipment providers are looking for ways to streamline license management, protect maintenance revenues, implement new revenue models quickly, and establish direct relationships with customers through multiple tiers of distribution, while efficiently managing activations, returns, upgrades/downgrades and firmware/software updates. During this webinar you will learn how they are using software licensing, device lifecycle and entitlement management to overcome these challenges.
Migrating from Traditional Node-Locked to Floating / Concurrent Licensing Models
Thursday, January 01, 2111
Flexera Software's Licensing Specialist Cris Wendt hosts this on-demand Webinar, which is part of the Modernizing Your Software Licensing Approach series. During this Webinar, Cris will talk about migrating from traditional Node-Locked to Floating / Concurrent Licensing models.
Why Software Publishers are Migrating from Certificates to Activations
Tuesday, July 07, 2111
Watch this Webinar to learn about the key reasons and benefits of moving from certificate based licensing to a trusted storage/activation licensing model. You will learn how activations can help you manage the license lifecycle, improve the customer experience and provide insight and visibility into the customer's activity.
Cut Through Cloud Clutter: Insights from Visible Ops Private Cloud
Monday, June 01, 2111
Join Andi Mann, VP Cloud Strategy for CA and Jeanne Morain, Director Alliances for Flexera Software as they provide prescriptive guidance for ISVs and Intelligent Device Manufacturers for cutting through the Cloud clutter. They will identify, dissect and discuss some of the key Cloud challenges as well as share best practices for licensing and porting applications to the Cloud (Private or Public). In addition, they will provide insights from key customer and consultant interviews (conducted for their recent book, Visible Ops Private Cloud) on Cloud bursting, licensing implications and regulation hurdles facing ISVs and their customer.
Creating a Customer-Centric and High-Performance Entitlement Management System
Friday, July 24, 2111
This Webinar shows how to maximize the revenue from your digital goods using priciples of high performance entitlement management.
Bridging the DevOps Divide by Automating the Handshake between Dev and Ops
Sunday, June 14, 2111
The agility, flexibility, and dynamic nature of cloud computing provides significant ROI to the business but only if IT can create and automate processes that provide compelling value to overall productivity of the company. As IT Ops becomes the "Cloud Broker" and is able to create virtual environments within minutes – Dev will need to automate the packaging, handoff and analysis to keep up.
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2012 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Report
Amy Konary from IDC shares findings from the Flexera Software survey.- Read the 2012 Survey
Get real-world data on the latest pricing and licensing trends and best practices in software and intelligent device manufacturing.
Compliance Management Solution for Application Producers Demo
See a demo of the solution that enables application producers to protect and monetize on-premises, cloud, SaaS, virtualized and embedded apps with an array of software licensing models.
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