What types of licensing and pricing models can we offer our customers with Orion?

Orion supports all of the following licensing and pricing models, including complex permutations and configurations of the models across model type and individual license IDs. License models that are unique to Orion and unavailable in competing products are highlighted in italics.

• Per-user license. This is the traditional “product activation” license model. A “user” can be a server. Orion’s product activation capabilities include the ability to enable the user to securely and autonomously return (deactivate) and / or relocate their licenses, and the ability to do so with no network connectivity to the license server.
• Floating anonymous-user concurrent-user-limit based license. This is the traditional “floating license”.
• Floating named-user license. These are identified and registered licenses that users can move with them instead of being permanently tied to specific machines. Unlike floating anonymous-user licenses, these are registered in the license server through administrative action.
• Enterprise license pools - both named and anonymous. These are licenses that are allotted to an enterprise end customer as a single pool entity, and autonomously managed and allotted among internal users by the end customer’s administrator.
• Weighted floating license. This is the traditional “floating license”, except that different weights can be assigned to different types of users or devices, to more accurately model their value.
• Absolute time limited licenses with warning thresholds and grace periods. These are conventional time limited licenses that expire at a specified date.
• Relative time limited licenses with warning thresholds and grace periods. These are licenses that support delayed activation – their expiration date is determined at the time of first activation rather than at the time they are created.
• Quota limited licenses with warning thresholds and grace periods. These are licenses that define limits on the amount of usage according to criteria defined by you.
• Leased licenses with duration control. This enables you to control the license lease duration (independent of expiration date), enabling functionality such as automatic subscription licensing with revocability, and controlling the degree of sharing of licenses among end users.
• Complex license configurations that are combinations of the above, for multiple entities. This means, for example, that you can implement complex pricing models such as a master license with multiple sub-licenses with individual concurrent-user limits and other licensing policies, distributed and consumed as one unit.