Maureen Polte, Sr. Director of Product Management for the InstallShield product shares her thoughts on the benefits that FlexNet Publisher software licensing brings to the InstallShield product line.
FlexNet Publisher: Resources
Monetize and Protect Your IP with Flexible Software Licensing—On-Premises, SaaS/Cloud and Virtualized
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FlexNet Publisher software licensing makes it easy for software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers to monetize, manage, secure, enhance, and grow market share through flexible software licensing, pricing, packaging, and protection of their software, regardless of whether that IP is offered in an on-premises, SaaS, Cloud or virtualized environment. |
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Datasheets
FlexNet Publisher Datasheet
Increase revenues by using software licensing to protect software from unauthorized use without impacting your customers. Also available in Japanese.
Virtualization: New Trend, New Complexities
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. 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
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.
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: Expanding Its Global Market by Simplifying Software Licensing and Entitlement Management with FlexNet Producer 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 software licensing and entitlement management processes enabled by Flexera Software FlexNet Producer Suite for Software vendors.
Siemens Building Technologies: Streamlines Inventory and Reduces Cycle Times with Flexera Software FlexNet Producer Suite
Siemens Building Technologies Streamlines Inventory and Reduces Cycle Times with Flexera Software's FlexNet Producer Suite for High-Tech Manufacturers. Also available in German.
Visual Numerics: Creating a Flexible Software Licensing Management Platform to Meet Customer Needs in Licensing Advanced 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 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.
MapInfo: Empowering Customers with Location Intelligence and Automated License Activation
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.
National Instruments: Revenue Rises as Electronic Licensing Opens Door to More Flexible Sales Model
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: Implementing Professional Software Licensing Solution Gives Software Vendors a Global Edge
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.
SlickEdit: Flexible, Automated Software Licensing Increases Customer Satisfaction, Revenues
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.
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
White Papers
2011 Key Trends Software Pricing and Licensing Report
The 2011 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.
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 and German.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2010 Software Licensing and Pricing Survey Results and 2011 Predictions
Tuesday, July 07, 2111
The 2010 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Survey, sponsored by Flexera Software and prepared with assistance from IDC, found that software vendors and their enterprise customers are looking for better strategies to derive more value for their organizations through software licensing and pricing business models.
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.
Additional Resources
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InstallShield Uses Tamper Resistant Software Licensing Code to Prevent Piracy and Hacking
Maureen Polte, Sr. Director of Product Management for InstallShield shares thoughts on the value of implementing tamper resistant code with their implementation of the FlexNet Publisher software licensing in the InstallShield product.
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- FlexNet Producer Suite for Intelligent Device Manufacturers
- FlexNet Producer Suite for Software Vendors
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More Information
2011 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing and 2012 Predictions
Amy Konary from IDC shares findings from the Flexera Software survey.- Register for the Live Webinar:
2011 Results and 2012 Predictions
Key issues and trends on the minds of software vendors, intelligent device manufacturers, and enterprise IT executives and managers. - Read the 2011 Survey
Get real-world data on the latest pricing and licensing trends and best practices in software and intelligent device manufacturing.
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Flexera Software Wins 2011 Market Share Leadership Award
