Tag: License Models

How to Managing Software Licenses in the Cloud

Licensing has always been a point of contention between software vendors, device manufacturers and their enterprise customers. The fact is that enterprises hate licensing. From the start producers have required their enterprise customers to standup and maintain the infrastructure to support a license server. The reality is…enterprises want licensing to be transparent. They don’t want to purchase and support the infrastructure to maintain a local …

August 14, 2014 Revenera

Managing Entitlement Rights within SaaS Applications

Many software publishers transitioning from perpetually licensed software models to SaaS or subscription licensing models treat the entitlement rights associated with the SaaS model as an after thought. The reason for this trend is that many of these companies initially feel SaaS applications will inherently manage the entitlement rights required because the licensing is “built in” to the application. Often, after the application has reached an i…

December 9, 2013 Brent Pietrzak

Usage-Based Software Licensing Examples and Patterns

For the last year, I’ve been talking to a large number of software vendors and device manufacturers about pricing their products using usage-based licensing models. There seems to be an explosion of new licensing models being considered. I personally believe that this new approach will be the default pricing model within the next 5 years and therefore wanted to share some potential applications (to stir up the creative juices).  I have kept…

January 16, 2013 Revenera

Will the Perpetual Software License Model Ever Go Away? That Depends Upon Who You Ask…

The perpetual software license model won’t seem to go away, as much as the press and various surveys seem to indicate. The perpetual license model has been the predominant method for selling the software license for most software for the past 30 years. With this approach, software is purchased with the right to use software into perpetuity. Of course, most software only has a useful lifetime of anywhere from 3 – 10 years. The software will …

December 16, 2011 Cris Wendt