How is the Orion product activation solution superior to competing products?

Orion’s capabilities, over and above automatic node locking and offline activation, include:

• Secure, self-service license return / recovery / relocation by end users: your end customer can autonomously and effortlessly return their license or move their license from one machine to another, including recovering licenses from failed or lost machines, without having to contact your operations staff. This is true even when the end user is obtaining a license while disconnected from the Internet.
• Leased, revocable licensing: you can require your licensed installation to periodically (and automatically) renew their license lease. In the event that you wish to update license parameters (for example to add a feature) or revoke the license, you can revoke the license on the server. In either case, the updated license policy automatically takes effect upon the next license lease.
• Enterprise product activation: for enterprises that purchase a pool of licenses, individual end user licenses don’t have to be pre-registered – instead, under a master authorization, end users may activate licenses from the pool.
• Arbitrary data exchange between end customer environment and license server: over and above licensing related information transmission, information may be pushed to the end customer environment, which may push back information to the license server. This may be at the time of activation, deactivation, or anywhere in between. This is useful, for example, to push promotions to end customers, or push user registration forms and capture entered data.
• Secure and flexible node locking: Orion’s node locking system enables locking on multiple hardware and operating system parameters such that the degree of strictness of node locking parameter match is controllable by you – you can either require highly secure node locking, or permit highly flexible node locking that functions even if some of the hardware and / or operating system components have changed.
• 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.