A License Server that is Both Flexible and Secure
All our software licensing solutions are based on our flexible and powerful Orion Network Licensing Platform, referred to as “Orion” for brevity. The Orion license server’s extensive capabilities can be leveraged through any of our three licensing solutions: Orion OEM, Acropolis, and Nephele. The Orion OEM package is a software license management tool that includes the full set of capabilities of the Orion license server. The Acropolis package is a software license manager that offers all of the capabilities of Orion OEM, as well as the added security of a reliable hosted service whose uptime and operations are managed by Agilis. Nephele is an elastic monthly subscription based hosted software licensing service that enables ISV startups and small businesses to access most of the Orion server’s capabilities for a low monthly subscription fee. With any of the solutions, all the features of the Orion Network Licensing Platform described below are available.
Flexible Deployment Options
Deploy your Orion license server according to your operational cost and deployment environment constraints: redistribute the server to your enterprise end-customer LAN, WAN or VPN environment; host the server at your data center (even for floating licensing), and / or let Agilis host the server for you as part of the Acropolis solution.
Versatile Licensing Capabilities
Integrate the license server with virtually any type of application on a wide range of platforms. With a single application integration, realize a wide range of licensing models including product activation and floating licensing, for absolute / relative time limited licensing, usage-based metered licensing, feature and leased licensing.
User-Friendly Security
Give your customer all the licensing freedom and flexibility you want – without risk to your revenue and without inflicting operational overhead on you or your customer. Both your legitimate end customers and your operations team will appreciate the frictionless automation and remote-control security.
The Orion Network Licensing Platform’s Featured Capabilities
Product activation: frictionless, end-customer-friendly, enterprise-customer friendly, secure
Product activation with the Orion license server offers the following benefits that conventional product activation solutions do not:
- Frictionless: unlike license key based systems, or even competitors’ product activation systems, activating and returning licenses is an effortless experience for your customers.
- End-customer friendly: Your customers can even autonomously recover licenses from lost or failed machines if you allow them to do so.
- Enterprise-customer friendly: you can assign a pool of licenses (as opposed to issuing large numbers of multiple individual licenses) to your enterprise end customer, whose users can autonomously obtain their individual licenses up to the designated limit.
- Secure: all the above capabilities are designed to enhance the user experience without compromising licensing security.
Learn more about product activation with the Orion Network Licensing Platform.
Auditing, reporting, analytics and real time alerts
We provide a comprehensive set of operational reports that enable you to track the current state of your licenses, such as expiring subscription licenses. All licensing and license administration activities are also captured in an audit trail that may be consulted to pinpoint specific actions by specific individuals as part of an auditing process, as well as to obtain historical and analytic reports for gaining insights into your business. To support proactive operations and sales opportunity management, all licensing packages include a configurable rules-based real time alert system that can be used to alert sales representatives to trial-license activations and expiring licenses, and operations personnel to operations-level events such as attempted security breaches and capacity limits.
Floating licensing: scalable, flexible license server deployment options, secure
Unlike traditional floating license solutions that are based on heartbeats and in-memory storage, our floating licensing capability is based on a stateless http protocol combined with object relational database technology. This yields the following important operational and security benefits:
- scalable for the cloud: each service running under a license server instance can support millions of concurrent user licenses over the Internet, Intranet, WAN or VPN.
- named floating users: at the administrator’s discretion, floating users may be pre-registered named users.
- flexible degree of “float”: there is flexibility in what it means to obtain a floating license, yielding a better fit with operational requirements.
- sophisticated floating models for sophisticated requirements: Our floating license model includes a number of additional capabilities that are not available elsewhere, for example multiple-pool named+anonymous user floating licenses.
- deployment flexibility: in contrast to traditional floating license servers, you are not required to redistribute a license server to each LAN environment of your customer, although this is certainly permitted.
Learn more about the floating licensing capabilities of the Orion Network Licensing Platform.
The Orion Network Licensing Platform is the foundation for three software license management solutions
Orion OEM
The Orion OEM solution is the Orion network licensing platform packaged as a product. It is most appropriate for you if you prefer to host and redistribute the Orion server, and / or you have significant customization needs or extraordinarily high capacity requirements.
Acropolis
The Acropolis solution is the Orion OEM license combined with hosting of the license server by Agilis. Acropolis solves the problem of eliminating server downtime risk, operating expenses and infrastructure costs associated with operating a license server.
Nephele
Nephele is an affordable and flexible hosted Orion licensing service that is offered as a monthly subscription plan. Nephele enables startups or small business ISVs to start with an inexpensive payment plan and seamlessly scale up as market share grows.
