Years ago, building your own licensing system looked like a good idea. After all, you’re a software company. Your development team stepped up and said, “we’ve got this.” It looked like a cost effective approach to create exactly what you needed.
But times have changed. A modern software licensing solution built on cloud technology opens up all sorts of doors to increase revenue, make life easier for your customers and reduce support calls.
What’s Different — Cloud Architecture
A cloud architecture changes how licensing works, simplifying life for your team and customers.
- Painful physical file delivery and installation goes away because information flows both ways between the cloud and the end customer device
- When things change, the cloud maintains accuracy without manual intervention
- It’s a completely different customer experience. Rights are up and running fast, even for trials not requiring a license.
Freedom! 5 New Things You Can Do
Using the latest licensing technology, like Nalpeiron’s Zentitle, removes the limitations of older solutions and empowers your organization to say “yes.” You’ll be able to:
- Go Account Based — Have you admired the simple “login and use” experience provided by Adobe, Microsoft, Dropbox, Evernote, Google and iCloud? You can do it — SaaS, modern and pain free -with an Account Based Licensing model. It only requires an email address and password. For your customers, the need to remember a complicated license goes away. And that also means less calls for your support team.
- Use Consumption Licensing — It’s a popular request from today’s end users. Can we pay for what we use or set up pre-payment with usage limits? When you have the power to meet this customer need with full insight into usage, you create a valuable business advantage.
- Choose your model — To grow, you need flexibility. In fact, it’s an expectation from clients. Is your homegrown system holding you back? Zentitle supports 17 licensing models, including perpetual, subscription based, concurrent, floating feature, hardware, multi-platform and more. Learn more.
- Change the experience with the 10 second rule — Licensing of applications and devices should be drop-dead easy and the newest solutions help you build that experience. In fact, Zentitle is built around an important premise. If it takes an end customer more than 10 seconds to complete a software licensing task, it’s being done wrong. New architecture enables you to stop being a slave to how the system works and empowers you to put customers first.
- Use precious resources for bigger impact — In addition to opening up new opportunities for your company, a modern licensing solution helps you free up resources and move faster.
Consider these questions:
- Where is your engineering time best spent?
- Will more flexible licensing get products to market faster?
- How much work is involved when environments change?
- How extensive is the support needed with integrating with back office systems, e-commerce, ERP and CRM?
Easier than You Think
Even if you’re nodding your head at all the points above, there may still be one lingering question on your mind. OMG — putting in a new licensing system would be incredibly complicated! The good news is it is easier than you think when you use Zentitle.
