Software License and Entitlement Management Trends


Randy Littleson, Senior Vice President, Marketing for Flexera Software, discusses how high-tech manufacturers are using software to differentiate themselves from competition and grow profitability, and how software licensing and entitlement management solutions can enable this transformation.

Software licensing and entitlement management: The Next Generation


Amy Konary from IDC shares findings from the newly updated IDC White Paper sponsored by Flexera Software.

  • 2009 IDC White Paper
    Read how companies are approaching the issues of licensing and entitlement management and experiencing dramatic results.
  • IDC White Paper Webcast
    This webcast will provide a summary of the capabilities that constitute a licensing and entitlement management approach.

"The Entitlement Management Solution from Flexera Software has helped Alcatel-Lucent improve the way we view and administer entitlements.  Now our license generators can be consolidated into a single system, saving us time and money while giving customers a more consistent experience."

Manish Sharma
Alcatel-Lucent

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FlexNet Operations: Resources

One System for Managing All Software License Generators and Technologies

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Datasheets

Cut support costs and increase revenue with efficient license management. Also available in Japanese.
Innovate products faster, streamline entitlement management, and simplify software updates and distribution.

Guides, Manuals & Help

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.

Case Studies

With FlexNet Suite, Sybase has been able to achieve operational efficiencies such as consolidating manufacturing in-house, and closing its European distribution center. In addition, customers give Sybase exemplary ratings based on their experience in accessing and using the company’s software.
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.
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.
Mobility. It's one of the key factors reshaping organizations around the globe. As businesses everywhere embrace the notion of real-time, anywhere, anytime access, Nokia needs to be ready with its enterprise solutions.

Testimonials

“The Entitlement Management Solution from Flexera Software has helped Alcatel-Lucent improve the way we view and administer entitlements.  Now our license generators can be consolidated into a single system, saving us time and money while giving customers a more consistent experience. We worked with Flexera Software as they developed this new release that will not only give us reports that detail our customers’ entitlement activities, but more importantly enables us to better serve our customers by providing them a clearer view into how their departments use our products so they can better manage their own entitlements.  We will also be able to dramatically reduce the time it requires us to give permission to use the requested application from a few days to a few minutes.”

Manish Sharma
Alcatel-Lucent
Program Director
One Alcatel-Lucent Software Initiative (OALSI)

"Our work with Flexera Software is continuing to help us enhance our productivity and customer experience.  The latest release of FlexNet Operations is a great example of how Flexera Software is committed to our success.  The new product provides us with end-to-end product activation capabilities that will increase customer satisfaction and simplify the process of product license activation for all users."

Chuck Schwerin
Sr. Product Manager, Licensing Technologies
Pitney Bowes MapInfo

"[FlexNet Operations'] Web services are going to help streamline integration between our Oracle Financials and Siebel CRM applications. This will help us serving our customers by enabling them to manage their software assets through the [FlexNet Operations] portal, reduce our cost and increase revenue."

Svend Lysemose
Project Manager
Brüel & Kjær

"Flexera Software has been responsive to our needs with their latest release of [FlexNet Operations]. We are happy to be partnered with a company that shares our vision of simplified management and control of licensing policies and processes."

Bruce Fortune
Senior Architect
Citrix

"Flexera Software is headed in the right direction with this latest release of [FlexNet Operations]. Using the new Web-based interface, we saw no performance degradation when our offices in San Jose, India and Taiwan all accessed [FlexNet Operations] at the same time. Plus, it's hard to believe that it's a Web-based application. It looks and acts like a client application. We're happy that we had a part to play in Flexera Software's development partner program."

Mikael Håkansson
Director of Operations
CoWare

White Papers

This white paper, authored by Cris Wendt, a Strategy Principal Consultant with Flexera Software, explores the top 10 reasons why most software vendors and high-tech manufactures choose to buy a COTS software licensing and entitlement management solution.
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.
What makes up a licensing and entitlement management system? Why software producers and high-tech manufacturers should consider an end-to-end system? Read how companies are approaching the issues of licensing and entitlement management and experiencing dramatic results. This white paper is also available in Japanese.
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.
This white paper describes the requirements software and hardware producers must consider when implementing a back-office electronic software licensing solution.
This White Paper outlines the business processes that make up the license lifecycle and introduces the five best practices for streamlining the license lifecycle.

Webinars

This web summit features Flexera Software, along with Amy Konary from IDC and Bob Mullen from Sybase sharing proven techniques to grow your business while eliminating manual, redundant operational processes
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.
Amy Konary from IDC will provide a summary of the capabilities that constitute a licensing and entitlement management approach, or what IDC calls software product life-cycle management (SPLM), as well as the ways in which the application of these capabilities can help software producers and high-tech manufacturers.
View this informative webinar for the latest strategies for cutting fulfillment and support costs and realizing faster revenue recognition.
Taking the complexity out of managing the entire process of productizing, monetizing, delivering, updating and monitoring software entitlements.
This webinar provides an in-depth look at how to enhance customer relationships by streamlining software entitlement management and collecting customer data.
This webinar focuses on the issues that cost you money in software licensing and distribution and how to solve them with simplified license management using FlexNet Operations from Flexera Software.