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Software Pricing and Licensing Webcast and 2009 Survey


Amy Konary from IDC shares findings from the Flexera Software sponsored 2009 Survey.

  • Webcast
    Learn about the key issues and trends on the minds of software vendors, high-tech manufacturers, and enterprise IT executives and managers.
  • Survey
    Get real-world data on the latest pricing and licensing trends and best practices in the software industry.

Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Webcast.  Register now

FlexNet Publisher

Enabling You to Increase and Protect Your Revenues with a Flexible Software Licensing System and Advanced Security

Datasheets

Increase revenues by using software licensing to protect software from unauthorized use without impacting your customers.
FlexNet Publisher 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.

Guides, Manuals & Help

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Case Studies

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.
Visual Numerics, with its long history with Flexera Software and confidence in the quality of its products, found it easy to make the decision to switch from one software licensing product to another. The company began the switch to FlexNet Publisher by putting an evaluation team together. After a three month review of the product and documentation, Visual Numerics was confident that the change would be positive for their customers and engineering team.
In considering software licensing solutions, reliability, longevity and support for all SlickEdit platforms topped the list of criteria. On all counts, FlexNet Publisher stood out as the market leader. Adding to the solution’s credibility, key customers were requesting that SlickEdit bring in FlexNet Publisher.
National Instruments lacked an electronic software licensing solution, making it tough for their worldwide customers, such as Motorola and DaimlerChrysler, to keep up with licenses. With customers requesting software license management, National Instruments knew it needed a more effective solution. National Instruments chose FlexNet Publisher, which enables software vendors and high-tech manufacturers to flexibly price, package and protect their product offerings, as well as profitably manage licenses throughout their lifecycle.
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

"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 Produce Development
Foray Technologies

White Papers

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.
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).
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.
Should software vendors and high-tech manufacturers buy a software licensing system? What are the benefits of licensing, and how are big and small companies approaching the issues of licensing?
Thousands of software vendors and high-tech manufacturers have successfully implemented FlexNet Publisher to reduce unlicensed software usage, enable new customer centric licensing models and improve their customers’ ability to manage their license assets. This white paper seeks to educate vendors and manufacturers on how to improve the quality of their software licensing implementations by providing a summary of the common issues end users face, and by outlining key implementation considerations vendors should bear in mind.

Webinars

Flexera Software welcomes Amy Konary of IDC as she presents the findings from the 2009 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Survey. During this webcast, Amy shares the key issues and trends on the minds of software vendors, high-tech manufacturers, and enterprise IT executives and managers.
As with many technologies, virtualization is challenging the way you price, package and sell your software. Many software vendors are not sure what to do with existing license models, and other vendors are avoiding the issue altogether. Yet, virtualization is continuing to gain momentum. Join our webinar to understand how to approach this brave new world to gain market and competitive advantages.
Taking the complexity out of managing the entire process of productizing, monetizing, delivering, updating and monitoring software entitlements.
This webinar provides information and best practices for using software licensing and entitlement management to deliver customer-specific device capabilities and capacity management through software customization, reduce the number of variations of devices you need to manufacture, and more.
View this informative webinar for the latest strategies for cutting fulfillment and support costs and realizing faster revenue recognition.