Licensing Overview
This section summarizes the license attributes or controls available in each enforcement technology that you can use to implement business models suiting your requirements. While license attributes reflect the enforcement technology's details, the term business model combines and presents them in a compact and business-oriented manner.
The topics covered are:
In the previous sections, we described the software monetization challenges that software and device vendors like you are facing—one of them being customers seeking new ways of buying and using your software. While your core product may remain the same, the need exists to revisit and update the packaging, pricing, and licensing strategy to remain relevant in a changing business landscape. Using Sentinel Software and Services solution, you can redefine and reposition the same software to improve the overall accessibility of your software across a multitude of diverse markets.
A shift in approach from static, one-size-fits-all boxed software to a dynamic bundle of features that can be enabled and disabled instantly is visible. This enables you to change your pricing and packaging schemes on the fly, without any incremental engineering effort. You can quickly and cost-effectively deliver the right offering to every customer, every time. In addition, you can plan and offer different license models to end users, thus making space for your software across various scenarios, devices, and budgets.
A license model is the way chosen to package and sell your software. Sentinel EMS provides pre-defined license models with a set of attributes and configurations that can be mapped to the terms and conditions agreed upon by you and your customers.
In the next section, you will learn about some of the popular license models that you can implement using Thales software monetization solution.