How is the Orion floating licensing solution superior to competing products?

Orion’s floating licensing capabilities provides several benefits including:

• Deployability to WAN’s, VPN’s and hosted Internet environments, in addition to traditional LANs. This capability translates into reduced deployment and operations costs for enterprise licensing, since floating license pools can be hosted. It also enables floating licensing for cloud-based services.
• Floating named-user license model: where pre-registered named users can move their license among machines relatively frequently.
• Tunable degree of float: the ability to decouple the license lifetime from application execution time and provide a superior end customer experience, for example for commuter licensing.
• High availability, scalability and licensing security resulting from an architecture that is based on relational database technology and a stateless communication protocol that does not involve heartbeats between application installations and the license server. This enables high-volume floating licensing for cloud-based services.
• Elimination of the need for a “license borrowing” mechanism for prolonged offline license usage: the license is merely acquired and cached for the desired extended duration.
• Support for “weighted” floating licensing, where different categories of users check out a number of points from the pool that reflect their value – for example a checkout for a user in an administrator role may consume 10 times as many points as a guest user. This enables additional monetization options involving selling a number of points reflecting total value that may be divvied up by the customer according to requirements.
• Support for complex licensing configurations: you can issue a single license that defines a complex configuration of multiple inter-dependent or independent floating licenses (as well as fixed licenses, if desired), and your application can perform a single checkout on the entire complex configuration.
• Single application integration for product activation and floating licensing: if you sell to individual end customers as well as enterprise customers, you do not need to perform two separate integrations with two separate licensing technologies. A single API integration enables you to distribute a single binary for both customer segments – the specific license identifier and parameters will dynamically control the licensing mode for a specific installation.