Tag: Entitlement Management

Common Software License Types and Terms

Please Note: This blog has been updated! Updated software license terms Update software license types I was recently asked by a customer to provide some standard definitions of common software licensing terms and thought it might be helpful to others. So here it is… Common License Types Appliance:  A license covering use of a specific piece of hardware, such as a hub, router, or PBX. Terms and conditions vary between vendors. User:   A l…

June 29, 2011 Revenera

Combating Grey Market Abuse

One of our independent software vendor customers recently lamented, with a resigned tone, that their software products are available at a 90% discount in the Chinese grey market. A grey market arises whenever your products have an exploitable price differential. Grey markets are quite well-known in pharmaceuticals where prescription drugs are purchased at steep discounts in one country and sold at below-market prices in another country. They are …

February 10, 2010 Revenera

The A, B, C’s of Software License Compliance and Enforcement

Sometimes the topics of software license compliance and enforcement seem twisted, very much like one of those M.C Escher drawings popular in the 70’s and 80’s that show complex physical objects connected in impossible ways though the optical illusions created by his drawings. To this end, I thought a few blogs on the subjects of enforcement and compliance would be useful and interesting topics. Let’s start with some basic definitions: software li…

October 28, 2009 Revenera

Improve Product Lifecycle Management Processes to Reduce SKU Count

One of the behaviors that we see with many software companies and high-tech manufacturers is SKU proliferation. When SKU counts are in the thousands or tens of thousands of items, the task of pruning the product line can become increasingly difficult.  This, in turn, exacerbates the SKU problem as something for someone else to solve.   In addition to the problems mentioned in the previous blog post, the proliferation of product data also can unde…

September 3, 2009 Revenera