Wibu-Systems Blog

With legal and licensing factors coming into play, selling software online can be a bit trickier than selling physical products.

ISVs are transitioning to deliver SaaS solutions instead of traditional on-premise software apps, but the road is far from easy.

Data and network security threats to ICS have severe consequences for nation-states and supply chains.

Medium-long term trends that will be impacted by COVID-19 across technology, business, operations, investment, and macroeconomics.

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.

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 the shift from hardware towards software enabled technologies, IP protection is paramount in the IIoT.

Embracing the shift in customer preferences led by Industry 4.0 and radically transforming the entire business strategy.

The software licensing tools must be readily adaptable to the new purchasing and delivery models of the connected age.

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.

The Dynamic Monetization model proposes to move the payment for industrial systems from upfront to the time of usage with revolutionary consequences.

The U.S. points to China for rampant IP theft, which they believe has significantly weakened U.S. companies’ position in the global market.

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

Medical device manufacturers can leverage software licensing to unlock unique business models that generate new revenue streams.

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

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

Most content is created, stored, and transmitted digitally. Left unprotected, it can be distributed electronically to millions of people in just seconds.

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.

When I recently watched a report about Tofaş, with its impressive one-million square meter operation and its leading position in the Fiat-Chrysler world in terms of World Class Manufacturing (WCM), I seriously wondered what else Smart Factories could offer in the near future. 

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.

There were some interesting findings released in a global study this past June conducted by Harbor Research (in conjunction with Progress Software) on the State of IoT: 2015 Global Developer Study.

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. 

We’ve all seen the disturbing software piracy statistics released by BSA | The Software Alliance in their Global Software Survey.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) recently released the first version of a document entitled "Industrial Internet Reference Architecture Technical Report".

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.

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?