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This FAQ is for FlexNet Licensing publishers who want information regarding FlexNet ID dongle hostid types. This document applies to FlexNet ID Drivers v2.0.
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Case StudiesForay Technologies: Expands Its Global Market by Simplifying Entitlement Management with FlexNet Suite
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 licensing and entitlement processes enabled by Flexera Software FlexNet Suite for Software Producers.
MapInfo: Empowering Customers with Location Intelligence and Automated License Activation
MapInfo transformed its global licensing operations with FlexNet Operations and FlexNet Publisher. They have been able to implement licensing and entitlement management across their MapInfo Professional product line, broadening the licensing models available to customers without causing pains internally or to customers.
Visual Numerics: Creating a Flexible Platform to Meet Customer Needs in Licensing Advance Analytical Software
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 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 not affect their customers or their engineering team.
SlickEdit: Flexible, Automated Licensing Increases Customer Satisfaction, Revenues
In considering 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: Revenue Rises as Electronic Licensing Opens Door to More Flexible Sales Model
National Instruments lacked an electronic licensing solution, making it tough for their worldwide customers, such as Motorola and DaimlerChrysler, to keep up with licenses. With customers requesting license management, National Instruments knew it needed a more effective solution. National Instruments chose FlexNet Publisher, which enables software producers and high-tech manufacturers to flexibly price, package and protect their product offerings, as well as profitably manage licenses throughout their lifecycle.
BASIS International: Implementing Professional Licensing Solution Gives Software Producer a Global Edge
BASIS International faced an ongoing challenge in keeping its 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 solution suite 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 "Adobe outlined an extensive set of business and technology requirements for electronic license management, and the new FlexNet Publisher platform proved to be the \most capable product in the market. FlexNet Publisher enables Adobe to provide enterprise customers with a more effective means of managing their Adobe software licenses and monitoring usage throughout their organizations. Macrovision’s expertise and technology address the unique requirements within our consumer, enterprise and education market segments, and will ultimately help us provide new licensing models and better answer the evolving needs of our customers." Drew McManus
“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 White PapersVirtualization and FlexNet Publisher
Virtualization technologies are posing new challenges for software producers to enforce their license agreements using traditional licensing models. Learn how FlexNet Publisher will enable software producers to embrace virtualization by providing various means to enforce licensing on virtual machines.
Trusted Storage Unique Identifier Usage Guidelines
This whitepaper 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).
Licensing and Customer Satisfaction Managing Entitlement: An Age-Old Problem in Digital Industries
This white paper describes how the core concept of software licensing 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.
Electronic Licensing: The Build vs. Buy Decision
Should software producers and high-tech manufacturers buy a licensing system? What are the benefits of licensing, and how are big and small companies approaching the issues of licensing?
Best Practices in Licensing
Increasing Customer Satisfaction with Improved License Implementation
Why Software Publishers use FLEXlm®
(FLEXible License Manager™) to License their Software
WebinarsThe Brave New World: Software Licensing on Virtual Servers Webinar
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.
New Strategies for Increasing Revenue and Enhancing Customer Relations
Taking the complexity out of managing the entire process of productising, monetising, delivering, updating and monitoring software entitlements.
Strategies for Innovating Products Faster While Simplifying Manufacturing Complexities
This webinar provides information and best practices for using 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.
Delivering Software and Revenue at the 'Speed of E'
View this informative webinar for the latest strategies for cutting fulfillment and support costs and realizing faster revenue recognition.
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