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Subscriptions and consumption-based licensing models have overtaken traditional perpetual licensing as the new normal.

The benefits of cloud licensing include high availability, flexibility, scalability, management automation, and lower costs.

Virtualization adds another layer of challenge to ISVs for software protection and license management alike.

The flexibility to offer licensing models tailored more closely to customers business needs and preferences is critical.

Subscription-based business have fared the best in weathering the near-catastrophic economic storm during the COVID-19 crisis.

Exploring the main differences between protecting a desktop application and a Windows service or a server application.

During the COVID-19 crisis, our Business Continuity Plan is mitigating threats to public health and maintaining business ops.

A secure approach to cloud licensing is our contribution to the cloud technologies propelling the digital transformation.

As new software based technologies, products, and applications emerge, a flexible and secure licensing platform is a must

AI research is largely focused on augmenting and improving the practice of radiology and, consequently, patient care.

With cloud licensing, users can access their software licenses wherever, whenever, and however they need them.

Whether your decision is driven by technology or market reasons, the migration to CodeMeter is smoother than you may think.

In this new era, subscription experiences are built around services that meet consumers’ needs better than static, out-of-the-box offerings.

"Bricking" in software license management translates into the ability to lock down a license if an appropriate or illegal use of the software is detected.

Modern software monetization ensures customers use the services they pay for while taking advantage of cloud adoption and real-time analytics tools.

Established due diligence best practices provide a roadmap to ensure a successful migration to a modern, flexible and robust licensing system.

The pay-per-use model is widely embraced by consumers, has tangible benefits for ISVs and embedded system developers, and is industry-agnostic.

The next generation of software monetization is about enabling business models that provide additional opportunity for monetization to drive growth.

A cloud-based licensing and software protection service with private Blockchain to address non-repudiable logging is under investigation.

Modern usage-based licensing is trending in the software monetization market as customers gain say in how they want to consume their software.

Software issues can have a dramatic impact on industrial processes, bringing an entire production line to a halt and affecting bottom-line profits.

Fritz Stephan structured a scalable licensing model where they can remotely activate features on-demand and create new post-sales revenues.

In the past decade, the Internet has dramatically changed the way software and the corresponding licenses are delivered.

With just a few shopping days left before Christmas, the retail frenzy is at its height.

Software entrepreneurs who are developing their first time application have the luxury of building-in their software licensing and protection solution from the outset.

A flexible software license management system is critical for enabling ISVs to keep pace with end user expectations, not only in the way the software is licensed, but also in the manner by which end users can manage licenses internally once purchased. 

Whether you are a total believer or not, it looks like the shift from perpetual software licensing to the software subscription model is here to stay.

Software licensing and monetization continue to be critical factors in a successful deployment for ISVs, particularly as the IoT and embedded systems market evolves and end user licensing preferences change.

Late last year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & Society issued a very interesting report on Deep Shift: 21 Ways Software Will Transform Global Society.

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is a not-for-profit organization formed to develop, define and promote open, vendor-neutral, global industry standards, supportive of a hardware- based root of trusted computing platforms.

Security and the IoT are terms becoming intrinsically linked in the grand discussion of connected devices and their envisioned applications in virtually every aspect of our ecosystem, whether it be consumer wearables, medical devices, or industrial systems.

Many software developers have turned to the free trial business model to market their enterprise software – simply put, offer free software for a timed period and hope the end user performs a thorough evaluation and sees enough value to warrant a purchase of the software after the trial expires.

IDC recently released their annual top 10 software licensing and pricing predictions for 2016 and I think they are right on target based upon feedback from organizations who are using our CodeMeter secure licensing platform.

The intellectual property gained during the development of an ISV’s flagship software product most likely represents an investment in hundreds and hundreds of man hours. 

Aside from the widespread attention and hype surrounding the prolific growth expectations of the Internet of Things (IoT), industry focus has been on potential (IoT) device vulnerabilities and cybersecurity.

If you have decided to integrate a 3rd party licensing solution for your software application, you’ve made the right choice.

With today’s cloud or virtual solutions, there are many available license management options to evaluate and even more questions to consider – What about security? Service levels? Architecture? Server location? Support? Cost and fees?

ISVs today must address many questions in your product development and delivery strategies as the software licensing landscape has become increasingly complex.

During the early 2000's, there was much skepticism about the value and viability of virtualization.

Faced with an increasingly complicated network environment, made only more complex by the addition of virtualization, cloud services and bring your own devices (BYOD), many of your customers are also struggling to keep track of their software assets, contracts, and entitlements.

Adobe may have raised some eyebrows last year when they announced they were moving their packaged Creative Suite PC software to the cloud, but most industry analysts predicted this day was coming – it was just a matter of how soon.

When describing software protection dongles in a 2007 article appearing in PC Magazine, John C. Dvorak, a well-respected (but self-described curmudgeon) and award winning columnist said, “The dongle was a mostly failed copy-protection device that came into existence in the 1980s. It was also a point of controversy…”

We’ve been hearing the term "software monetization" bandied about. What does it mean?

We talk a lot about copy protection in this space but what I want to focus on today is what is meant by the phrase "secure software licensing."

Thomas Friedman argues in his classic work that modern telecommunications makes global trade and competition a simple fact of modern life.

Anytime you add a 3rd party component into your overall product stack you need to be thoughtful before you decide.