With the need to license and charge software and services more flexibly, new licensing schemes need to support dynamic sales models that customers are demanding for today. Customers want to pay only for software they need and actually use.
Vendors need to use licenses to control and supervise their installed software or services and improve their […]

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We software vendors struggle daily with pricing modes, one of my favourite concepts is the  Pay-Per-Time function which is possible with a high quality provisioning system.
Using a feature such as pay per time we’re able to limit the time which the application or a specific feature can be used by the end user.  Settings can […]

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Aladdin (Nasdaq: ALDN) a leader in digital security, providing solutions for software Digital Rights Management and Internet security since 1985.
Serving more than 30,000 customers worldwide, Aladdin products include: eToken™, providing cost-effective strong user authentication and password management solutions; the eSafe® line of integrated content security solutions, protecting networks against […]

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Macrovision Corporation, a Delaware corporation founded in 1983, develops digital rights management and software licensing technologies to combat widespread digital piracy while offering solutions that enable our customers to electronically control the use of digital content and software, and to build significant new revenue models.
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Secured Dimensions, a Microsoft subsidiary, develops revolutionary solutions that allow software vendors and developers to ensure return on their software development investments. By managing the entire software lifecycle – from idea to revenue – Secured Dimensions enables developers to more effectively protect, package, license, sell and control the use of their software.
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In-house application development organizations provide highly-customized, mission-critical software for enterprises the world over. Independent Software Vendors as well as in-house application development teams are in need of protection and control for their products – especially as they become more service-oriented, playing a more central role in overall enterprise business.
Dynamic Software licensing allows for not only […]

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Companies are buying more licenses than they need:
These days, PC licensing and application provisioning is highly inefficient. This leads to companies buying a far greater number of licenses than they actually need. Because many organizations fail to automate license management they in fact also risk license violation even when they aren’t using the number of […]

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