What is the business problem being solved with Acropolis?

Acropolis is about two key value propositions: (a) virtually eliminating risk of license server down time (and hence business down time), and (b) controlling the infrastructure and operations costs associated with operating a hosted license server.

• Eliminate risk of license server downtime: Agilis is accountable for ensuring the uptime of the Acropolis-hosted Orion license server, as well as for maintaining backups and ensuring data integrity of your license databases.
• Control operations cost: Acropolis eliminates the need for you to allocate operations personnel to configure and operate the license server for optimum performance and high availability.
• Eliminate infrastructure cost: Acropolis eliminate the cost of purchasing, setting up and operating the associated hardware, operating system and license server infrastructure, and
• Accelerate application / back office integration: your developers can be productive and focus on application and back office integration immediately – they do not need to be concerned with installing and configuring the Orion license server, or with monitoring the server and managing its uptime.

The value associated with downtime risk is hard to quantify but can be extraordinarily high when you factor in the impact of downtime on customer retention and your brand image. The value associated with infrastructure and operations cost is the savings in staffing operations personnel, which is a fixed cost. The value associated with having fewer moving parts for your developers to impede getting started with integration is an added bonus.