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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.

The ability for an end user to easily borrow a license when necessary is an essential requirement of a software license management system.

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

Many ISVs continue to build their monetization layers in-house, but total cost of ownership and business agility are lower with a commercial solution.

Lean machines, connected to cloud intelligence, introduce a decentralized architecture that will change forever our industrial world.

IDC recently released their annual top 10 software licensing and pricing predictions for 2016. One surprising note was that there was no mention of license security.

Not surprisingly, inexperience, interoperability and security were at the top of the list of challenges mentioned by 678 developers polled in the study State of IoT.

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

The disturbing software piracy statistics released by BSA | The Software Alliance in their Global Software Survey are sure to put a dent into any ISVs bottom line.

IIC recently released their Industrial Internet Reference Architecture, which serves to initiate a process of evaluation and industrial transformation.

By monetizing the software on their devices, IoT vendors will be able to increase and drive recurring revenue streams, creating billions of dollars.

If you have decided to integrate a 3rd party licensing solution, you’ve made the right choice. But now which 3rd party solution should you choose?

A never ending controversy between the rights of software publishers to get paid for their efforts and users to use the software they legally purchased.

We define software monetization as the capability to effectively maximize your software revenue by meeting marketing demands. What does it mean for me?