FlexNet Publisher: Software Licensing

FlexNet Publisher software licensing technology gives software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers the maximum flexibility needed to customize pricing, packaging, and software licensing terms for broader and deeper market penetration. It also helps you protect against unauthorized software and service use while still ensuring a first-rate customer experience.

Expand software revenue protection into virtualized environments
Flexera Software has collaborated with virtualization platform manufacturers to provide a rich set of capabilities that allow you to address revenue protection in a virtualized environment. With FlexNet Publisher's advanced virtualization capabilities, you can apply the appropriate enforcement strategy for a given customer based upon the level of trust you have with that customer, including virtualization support for both Certificate-Based to Trusted Storage-Based licensing models.

Easy license activation and management
With FlexNet Publisher's activation capabilities, your customers can activate and change licenses with a single click of the mouse. Every change is automatically captured and optionally communicated to your back office. It helps your customers begin using your products rapidly without involving your support staff or violating your contracts.

Maximize revenue and meet market demand
FlexNet Publisher gives you the flexibility to creatively price, package, and bundle products for broader and deeper market penetration. Quickly create lite, standard, and premium product versions to better target customers and markets; create multiple software products—on-premises, SaaS, Cloud and virtualized—to address different markets and geographies; and enable cross-sell and up-sell products licensed together as packages and suites.

Prevent revenue loss from unlicensed software use
FlexNet Publisher protects your products against revenue loss by ensuring only licensed and credentialed users can access your products—on-premises, SaaS, Cloud and virtualized offerings—according to your software licensing terms, without impacting usability and customer satisfaction. Enabling customers to manage software licenses and subscriptions as needed without negatively impacting compliance.

FlexNet Publisher software licensing management is a core component of FlexNet Producer Suite for Software Vendors and FlexNet Producer Suite for Intelligent Device Manufacturers, Flexera Software's Entitlement and Compliance Management Solutions, which deliver broad capabilities for software licensing, subscription and entitlement management, as well as electronic software distribution and updates. FlexNet Publisher is the industry leader, with over 20 years of proven experience, more than 3,000 customers and over 20,000 FlexEnabled applications.