Flexible and Secure Software License Management
Flexible Deployment Options
Deploy your Orion license servers 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 Orion for you as part of the Acropolis solution.
Versatile Licensing Capabilities
Integrate Orion 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 or inflicting operational overhead on you or your customer. Both your legitimate end customers and your operations team will appreciate Orion’s frictionless automation and remote-control security.
Orion Software License Management Features and Benefits
Product activation with Orion: frictionless, end-customer-friendly, enterprise-customer friendly, secure
Orion’s product activation capability 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.
Auditing, reporting, analytics and real time alerts
Orion provides 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, Orion includes 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 with Orion: scalable, flexible license server deployment options, secure
Unlike traditional floating license solutions that are based on heartbeats and in-memory storage, Orion’s floating licensing capability offers the following important operational and security benefits due to its unique architecture based on stateless http protocol combined with object relational database technology:
- scalable for the cloud: each Orion service running under an Orion 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: Orion’s 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.
View the full floating licensing capabilities of the Orion License server
The Orion license server is the foundation for three software license management solutions
Orion OEM
The Orion OEM solution is a packaging of the Orion network licensing platform as a product. It is most appropriate for you if you prefer to host and redistribute the Orion license 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 Orion 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 elastic hosted Orion software license management service that is offered on a monthly subscription plan. Nephele enables startup or small business ISVs to begin with an inexpensive monthly payment and seamlessly scale up as their market share grows.
