FlexNet Publisher

FlexNet Publisher software licensing makes it easy for software vendors and high-tech manufacturers to manage, secure, enhance, and grow market share through flexible pricing, packaging, licensing, and protection of their software.

Software vendors and high-tech manufacturers are looking for ways to boost sales and prevent revenue loss from unlicensed product usage. FlexNet Publisher software licensing technology gives you maximum flexibility to customize pricing, packaging, and software licensing terms for broader and deeper market penetration. It also helps you rein in unauthorized software use while still ensuring a first-rate customer experience.

And now FlexNet Publisher’s advanced Virtualization Option, allows you to expand your software revenue protection into virtualized environments. Flexera Software has collaborated with various virtualization platform manufacturers along with application vendors such as yourself to provide a rich set of capabilities that allow you to address revenue protection in a virtualized environment that recognizes the importance of customer satisfaction. Using FlexNet Publisher Virtualization Option you apply the appropriate enforcement strategy for a given customer based upon the level of trust you have with that customer.

FlexNet Publisher software licensing management is a core component of FlexNet Producer Suite, Flexera Software's Entitlement and Compliance Management Solution, which enables software vendors and high-tech manufacturers to increase revenues, get products to market faster and simplify customer relationships.

Maximize revenue and meet market demand

• Creatively price, package, and bundle products for broader and deeper market penetration
• Quickly create lite, standard, and premium product versions to better target customers and markets
• Create multiple software product offerings to address different markets and geographies from one single software binary
• Cross-sell and up-sell products licensed together as packages and suites

Prevent revenue loss from unlicensed software use

• Ensure only licensed users can access your products – according to your contract software licensing terms – without impacting usability and customer satisfaction
• Enable customers to manage software licenses as needed without negatively impacting compliance
• Turn off software licenses to prevent abuse during deactivation, transfers, or upgrades
• Enable customers to start using products faster with single-click activation

Part of Flexera Software’s Entitlement and Compliance Management Solution, delivering broad capabilities for software licensing, entitlement management, and electronic software distribution and updates, FlexNet Publisher is the industry leader, with over 20 years of experience and a proven track record, more than 3,000 customers and over 20,000 FlexEnabled applications. FlexNet Publisher was awarded the industry “Best Software Product for Software vendors” in 2007 by SIIA.