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FLEXnet Suite for Software Producers

The Leader in Entitlement and Compliance Management
Acresso provides the industry leading Entitlement and Compliance Management solution for software producers, offering the most flexible and comprehensive set of entitlement protection, packaging, distribution and management capabilities. FLEXnet Suite® for Software Producers delivers unified entitlement lifecycle management in both on-demand and on-premise options, as well as a complete compliance management spectrum from license enforcement to usage monitoring.

Overview

Relied upon by thousands of leading software producers for more than 20 years, FLEXnet Suite is the industry leading Entitlement and Compliance Management solution for software producers, offering the most flexible and comprehensive set of entitlement protection, packaging, distribution and management capabilities. FLEXnet Suite delivers unified entitlement lifecycle management in both on-demand and on-premise options, as well as a complete compliance management spectrum from license enforcement to usage monitoring.

As companies like yours look for new ways to grow revenues and help customers comply with software entitlements, FLEXnet Suite can help you to:

  • Innovate faster by unlocking new product packages and promotional models
  • Streamline entitlement management and simplify product updates and distribution

...all the while ensuring the highest quality of compliance, service with a consistent and enjoyable end-user experience.

Package, protect and license software

With the FLEXnet Suite you can enable multiple product versions to be created from a single binary by using license files. You can create targeted product packages for different audiences, as well as flexible license models such as demo, evaluation, concurrent and expiring. Acresso’s industry-leading Entitlement and Compliance Management solution protects the value of your software, ensuring that your customers can use, download and update everything they are entitled to – but not more than they should.

FLEXnet Suite is a complete, integrated end-to-end solution that plays an important role in your company’s profitability. This Entitlement and Compliance Management solution allows you to increase revenues by providing customers with many options to try and buy, complemented by electronic upgrades that reduce costs and improve margins.

Simplify entitlement management

With the FLEXnet Suite you get a single view of all the ways your customers are entitled to use, download and update your software. Acresso’s industry-leading Entitlement and Compliance Management solutions keeps you up to date and reflect the current relationship you have with your customer. We also give your customers and channel partners a single view of their entitlements while improving the customer experience with a consistent process for managing them.

FLEXnet Suite’s integrated enterprise-class business intelligence capabilities give you the information that is critical in making the right decisions. From reducing costs by consolidating and streamlining processes, personnel and technologies, to maximizing revenue from your packaging and promotion efforts, FLEXnet Suite provides the insight you need to manage your business.

Provide electronic updates

Whether through either push or pull methods, the FLEXnet Suite allows you to increase the value of your customer relationships by connecting directly to them through the products they use. This enables you to:

  • Automate critical software updates and patches
  • Gain visibility across the distribution chain and communicate directly with end-users, regardless of the sales channel
  • Understand which features customers use on which specific operating system, on which types of hardware

SaaS/On-Premise

Acresso recognizes that software producers have a wide range of needs in implementing Entitlement and Compliance Management. To give your organization easy access to the FLEXnet Suite capabilities you need, we offer a choice of on-premise installation or on-demand entitlement and delivery of our software.

On-Premise Entitlement Management

When you choose to deploy FLEXnet Suite in the traditional on-premise method, your organization can enjoy maximum compliance over your software environment.

  • Keep control of your data, under your supervision, in an environment that affords deep customization capabilities – a benefit particularly attractive to large software producers with multiple business divisions and a large entitlement management solution portfolio.
  • Integrate FLEXnet Suite easily into diverse back office systems, from customer relationship management (CRM) and sales force automation (SFA) to enterprise resource planning (ERP).
  • Ensure that back-ups and application compliance can be executed internally.
  • Leverage the benefits of a perpetual license model.

On-Demand Entitlement Management

The OnDemand FLEXnet Suite deployment is ideal for software producers driven by faster time-to-market. 

  • Quick deployment time, ensuring faster time to service customers. Your company and your partners’ can get started with FLEXnet Suite OnDemand with just a basic Internet connection.
  • Minimized IT demands for installation and deployment, and associated business implications.
  • Ability to easily integrate with diverse enterprise systems using industry standard methods to connect your systems of record for customer, product and orders into the OnDemand version of the FLEXnet Suite.
  • A subscription financial model that allows you to forecast predictable monthly expenses.

FLEXnet Suite OnDemand provides you with peace of mind:

  • A secure infrastructure, anchored by secure data centers built from the ground up to enable continuous, secure, and reliable Web-based service delivery
  • Optimal service levels that offer higher performance, faster adoption, and better support and response than most companies can deliver internally
  • Continuous software upgrades with frequent functionality enhancements and upgrades that are automatically delivered and free to all customers
  • Global support for you and your ecosystem, with round-the-clock technical and process support in multiple languages.

Components

FLEXnet Publisher   pill_sdk

FLEXnet Publisher software licensing management makes it easy for software and hardware producers to manage, secure, enhance, and grow market share through flexible pricing, packaging, licensing, and protection of their software.

FLEXnet Operations   pill_onprem  pill_saas

FLEXnet Operations gives software producers and high-tech device manufacturers the power to manage software entitlements easily and efficiently. This entitlement and compliance management solution automates the generation, fulfillment and activation of software entitlements and provides a consistent experience and a self-service Web portal for your end-users.

FLEXnet Connect   pill_onprem  pill_saas

FLEXnet Connect software services keep you connected to users by electronically delivering applications, updates, and messages directly to their systems – keeping your support costs down and your customers happy.

FLEXnet Delivery (SubscribeNet)   pill_saas

FLEXnet Delivery, formerly known as "SubscribeNet", gives software producers and high-tech device manufacturers the power to manage and electronically deliver their products to customers efficiently and cost-effectively.

FLEXnet Compliance Monitor   pill_onprem

FLEXnet Compliance Monitor provides a comprehensive, accurate view of how customers use your software. Unobtrusive and mutually beneficial, this entitlement and compliance management solution gives you the opportunity to monetize overuse and unauthorized use, while your customers gain a clear understanding of their own usage – all without the intrusion of physical audits.

Consulting Services

Acresso Professional Services enables customers to accelerate and increase the value they receive from their investments in Acresso solutions. Our experts average more than ten years of software entitlement, software licensing, software installation and packaging experience. Through subject matter expertise and proven methodology, we can help you implement, manage, and evaluate current or potential strategies to achieve your business objectives.
 

White Paper


Software Licensing and Customer Satisfaction Managing Entitlement: An Age-Old Problem in Digital Industries
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Testimonial & Case Study

"As Foray Technologies expands its business globally, we really need the power and flexibility that we can get only from a mature Suite like FLEXnet. 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

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IDC White Paper


Should high-tech device manufacturers buy a software licensing system? Learn more in this white paper from analyst firm IDC. learn more»