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To build, or to buy? That’s the question technology companies typically face when evaluating solutions for software licensing, entitlement management, and compliance – and getting these factors right is essential for success. Download our guide to learn more and discover which option makes the most sense for your business.

Register and discover how to leverage entitlement data to hit your revenue targets in this hands-on webinar. You’ll hear expert guidance on how to make your revenue more predictable and more in this Revenera session.

Join Sathish Sampath, Senior Cloud Product Manager at Qlik, and Scott Niemann, Revenera’s Director of Product Management, for this practical session offering first-hand advice on how to improve your channel sales with shared access to data

Register to attend Revenera’s annual Software Monetization User Group event, where you will be able to engage with and hear from your peers, product experts and partners

Software monetization experts Phillip Daus, Partner, Simon-Kucher with Scott Niemann, Director of Product Management, and Eric Jensen, Solution Architect, both Revenera, discuss how to successfully adopt new monetization models.

Register to attend Revenera’s annual Compliance Intelligence User Group event, where you will be able to engage with and hear from your peers, product experts and partners

Join leading experts from Transforma Insights, IoT Now and Revenera for a discussion and guidance on IoT market trends, driving recurring revenue, reducing on-site maintenance and much more in this practical webinar

The eternal issue of how to price software licensing weighs heavy on product teams around the world. In fact, the 2022 Monetization Monitor revealed only 32% of software suppliers believe their pricing is “totally aligned” to value, highlighting the extent of this pivotal challenge. The risk is obvious: If your customers and prospects don’t see value for money, the success of your business hangs in the balance, so it’s crucial to constantly review feedback, analyze data, monitor the market, and make every attempt to ensure the price is right. Fortunately, you can remove the guesswork from prod

Revenera's latest research findings on software monetization models and strategies, software usage analytics, and software compliance & piracy

To build, or to buy?

When thinking about SaaS use rights, a good analogy is to consider how membership programs work at your local fitness center. You scan your card at the front desk and, depending on the package you’ve paid for, you’re granted access to the facilities and classes your membership allows. At the silver level, you’ll get unlimited use of certain machines, but restrictions will be imposed on pool access, for example – incurring additional fees each time you swim. However, those on the platinum package can access all areas at no extra cost. This is akin to how SaaS products generally work,…

Watch us live to hear leading experts from Extensis, Infor, Agilent, and Revenera, as they share key insights and takeaways from recent SoftSummit sessions, all dedicated to SaaS monetization.

At the time of writing, the economic outlook is challenging and layoffs across the tech sector are alarmingly frequent.

Join guest speaker Mark Thomason, IDC’s Research Director - Digital Business Models and Monetization, for this webinar on improving your entitlement management practices.

Join Revenera’s Software Monetization team for this in-depth discussion offering practical advice on boosting your bottom line in uncertain times.

IDC has published a new report on the issues surrounding software entitlement management and how suppliers can improve processes with a centralized solution. As product lines grow and licensing models evolve, suppliers frequently struggle to maintain multiple, complex, and often manual approaches to customer entitlements – causing delays in delivery and revenue recognition, resulting in unhappy users and flawed finances. When evaluating your approach to software entitlement management, ask yourself: Does your current system enable standardized automation for all products? Do you have insights

In an increasingly challenging economy, software companies need clear visibility over license compliance, unlicensed usage, and where revenue leakage occurs. Software usage data and compliance intelligence can provide essential insights that identify losses and help businesses convert piracy into profit. The final report in the Revenera Monetization Monitor 2022 series examines software piracy, misuse, and overuse.

How much attention do you pay to product usage data? The benefits and best practices are common knowledge by now – we all likely know the potential wealth of information contained within software usage analytics – but how much time do you commit to reviewing and learning from the insights at your fingertips? When hit with never-ending questions about feature development, roadmaps, and bug fixes, it’s easy to skip the routine of stepping back and studying customer behavior data.

Read the third and final report in our Monetization Monitor series for the latest trends in software piracy, overuse, and misuse. Discover how data-driven insights can help prevent future losses.

IDC has published a new report on how software suppliers can overcome the challenges of entitlement management, detailing how a single source of truth can empower flexibility, growth, and customer retention.

Frost & Sullivan analysts have published a new study into the changing landscape of software license enforcement, and how solution providers are helping software producers adapt to increased demand for SaaS deployments and intelligent devices. The software enforcement market is forecast to more than double over the next six years, as software suppliers transition from homegrown licensing to specialist third-party integrations that can improve entitlement management and monetization strategies. The following have been identified as key drivers in the rise of software license enforcement: H

Read Revenera’s research report on trends in how software producers collect and analyze software usage data. 

If you’re responsible for developing a product monetization strategy, Revenera’s Monetization Monitor should be essential reading. The annual report based on our survey of global software suppliers is packed full of insights into how they are evolving business models, pricing plans, and deployment options to meet customer expectations and stay competitive in today’s market. The first report in the 2022 series focuses on Monetization Models and Strategies, and results indicate the trend toward SaaS offerings and subscription-based licensing continues to grow as publishers transition with hybrid

Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan has published a new report into the evolution of software enforcement, detailing how publishers are increasingly moving away from homegrown licensing to embrace specialist third-party integrations.

Join Revenera VP, Product Management, Software Monetization, Vic DeMarines for a discussion that will dispel myths and assumptions about what it means to run a software compliance program in 2023 and beyond.

Read Revenera’s research report on trends around monetization, licensing and deployment models. 

The SoftSummit 2022 conference brought together industry leaders in software monetization to discuss their insights and experiences within this evolving landscape. With a global audience and leaders in the space sharing their findings, the event was a day packed full of actionable insights, engaging strategies, and detailed use data. Across…

Watch Revenera’s VP, Product Management, Software Monetization, Vic DeMarines to learn how software suppliers are leveraging software usage data and hear about the types of usage data that can yield significant and actionable insights.

To be a successful IIoT device company, you must be a successful software company. And successful software companies have learned to optimize all aspects of their operations to serve their customers well and create a healthy recurring revenue stream.

We’ve discussed the CFO’s role in growing company revenue and overall valuation, and how transitioning on-premises offerings to SaaS and moving from one-time perpetual license sales to recurring revenue models are at the top the strategic project lists for many technology CFOs. It is important to know that moving to…

Revenera’s annual SoftSummit event returns for its 2022 installment. Join industry leaders for sessions focused on software monetization trends & strategies, along with implementing & balancing on-premise, SaaS, & hybrid deployment models.

Register to listen to a conversation with Chris Bailey and Landy Jiang, Partner at Lushung, Rouse’s network law firm, along with Revenera experts and discover key insights on software piracy and litigation in China.

Once again, we’ve compiled aggregate Revenera Compliance Intelligence data to produce our annual list of the Top 20 Software License Misuse and Piracy Hotspots around the globe for 2022. If you’re not familiar, Compliance Intelligence enables software suppliers to detect, identify and report on the unlicensed use of their applications…

Regular readers of the Revenera blog will not be surprised to learn that I am fascinated by data and the insights that analysis of that data can surface. One of my favorite projects each year is analyzing the data in our Monetization Monitor Software Industry Survey to uncover where our…

Join Revenera’s Scott Niemann, Director of Product Management, for a discussion on the challenges of managing use rights for SaaS applications and review how providers are using Identity and Access Management (IAM) & Entitlement Management solutions

There are many misconceptions about intellectual property protections in China, the processes for seeking redress, and the likelihood of success. My colleague Vic DeMarines, VP, Product Management for Software Monetization, and I recently welcomed Chris Bailey, a Principal at Rouse, and Landy Jiang, a Partner at Lusheng, (Rouse’s network law…

The way a company monetizes its software has a huge impact on business success, growth and profitability. CFOs and financial leaders strive to make their software companies even more successful and set them up for growth. Moving away from one-time perpetual license sales to recurring revenue models, as well as…

Join Revenera’s VP, Engineering, Ravi Mazumdar and VP, Products and Marketing, Nicole Segerer for a discussion centered around whether you should build or buy.

This Guide is a valuable primer for CFOs (and those that need insight into CFO priorities) that are on the path to SaaS deployment and subscription monetization models. Learn which metrics to focus on, and how to change your business’ operations to accommodate SaaS.

In this eBook learn how to facilitate the successful operation of a SaaS business, with flexible and hybrid monetization models, new packaging and pricing models, and streamlined processes for provisioning and fulfillment across product offerings

Join Revenera’s Principal, Product Marketing, Michael Goff and Director, Product Management Scott Niemann for a focused session on how to operationalize hybrid deployment models. Themes such as automated renewal management, customer self-service, revenue recognition, enforcement of customer use rights, and many more will be explored in this one hour webinar.

In 3 on-demand webinars, Analysts and Revenera experts take a cross-functional approach to understanding the market drivers, organizational impacts, and business processes critical to the successful adoption of SaaS and subscription models. These sessions will provide the strategies you need to drive your SaaS Monetization efforts forward.

As the SaaS model of delivering software to customers continues to grow, many software suppliers wonder about the impact on the future of software piracy and license compliance. It’s a topic we’re interested in, too: we share an annual update on software piracy statistics based on aggregated infringement data from…

As product usage analytics deliver a stream of data and insights into product team dashboards, user retention metrics have become an increasingly reliable KPI to measure day to day user, product, and company health. While retention information has long been useful for SaaS, it is becoming increasingly important for B2B…

Software license compliance experts talk about how to run a successful compliance operation in a SaaS business and how to manage piracy in challenging territories.

Software producers often wonder whether they need a dedicated back-office application to facilitate software licensing and software entitlement management for the applications they sell in the marketplace. This blog explains where software entitlement management fits within an application producer’s IT portfolio. Implementing an entitlement management system There is no denying…

Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) has been on a journey of escalating heights since we first started offering our solution in 2012. ESD adoption is more than a steadily growing trend, and it is now the preferred method of software distribution for on-premises software like Microsoft Office 365, Adobe Creative Suite…

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