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Monetization Monitor: Usage Management and Insights

As a software provider, how well do you understand how customers are using your products? Is what you know based on anecdotal feedback or actual usage data collected from your customers? Developing …

October 3, 2019 Revenera

Software Piracy Myth #1: Software Piracy Only Occurs in China and Russia

Like no other industry, software companies have had a long and conflicted history with those who misappropriate and misuse their intellectual property. As long as there has been software, there has be…

September 30, 2019 Victor DeMarines

Homegrown Software Licensing? Your Competitors are Smiling

Many companies believe software licensing is a simple add-on to their software product development efforts. It’s not hard to see why. Companies see their development teams as highly skilled and more…

September 18, 2019 Revenera

Q&A with Tim Herbig on How to Build Data-Informed Products

Revenera sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. In these blog posts, we ask the presenters to share the…

September 18, 2019 Keith Fenech

What Is Software Usage Analytics?

Depending on what you do (product management, software development, etc.), you may call it software usage analytics, runtime intelligence, software business intelligence, or software intelligence (if …

September 12, 2019 Michael Goff

How Well Do You Really Know Your Customers?

Remember the still-maligned Windows Vista operating system upgrade? What about Google’s Lively 3-D virtual world simulator and Allo instant messaging platform? While it’s easy to have missed those sho…

September 6, 2019 Revenera

Q&A with Johanna Rothman on 5 Major Agile Product Traps

Revulytics (now part of Flexera) sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. In these blog posts, we ask the…

September 5, 2019 Keith Fenech

6 Software Piracy Myths

As long as there has been software, there has been software misuse: both pirated use (companies using pirated versions of software with cracked licenses) and overuse (legitimate customers exceeding th…

August 29, 2019 Victor DeMarines

Q&A with Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

We recently shared a Q&A with Nir Eyal about a webinar Revenera sponsored that covered some of the ideas in his New York Times best-seller, Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products. Now, he’s w…

August 23, 2019 Michael Goff

What is Software Piracy?

What is Software Piracy? Software piracy is the use of unlicensed software where the user has never paid the software vendor a licensing fee for the application. It can be contrasted with “license ove…

August 21, 2019 Victor DeMarines