About Sentinel EMS
Sentinel EMS is a centralized licensing and entitlement management system that enables you to maximize revenues and streamline business operations. Sentinel EMS provides secure, highly-available and cloud native software interfaces for license generation, entitlement activation, usage tracking, reporting, back-office integration, and customer self-service.
This chapter provides information about the key features of Sentinel EMS. The topics covered are:
>Centralized System for Managing Entitlement Lifecycle
Thales offers Sentinel EMS as a Service (EMSaaS) for deployment and management of Sentinel EMS. In this setup, all the Sentinel EMS components are installed, tested, configured, and managed by Thales. This frees your organization from Sentinel EMS installation, database and network configuration, security patching, integration with monitoring and alerting systems, and maintenance. This also lets you make use of the proven expertise of Thales in licensing and entitlement management systems by keeping your focus on your product and your customers' requirements and optimizing your software investments.
Sentinel EMS offers both user interfaces (portals, described below) and web services (for integration with your business systems), enabling monetization of your licensing and entitlement activities.
Sentinel EMS user interface provides the following portals:
>Vendor Portal: To be used by the vendor's personnel (users with assigned roles) mainly to manage products, customers, and entitlements.
>Customer Portal: To be used by the vendor's customers (customers and contacts) mainly to activate and revoke entitlements.
Refer to the Sentinel EMS User Guide for detailed information.