SOFTWARE LICENSING SERVICE
Monetize SaaS, IoT, and on-premises software with FlexNet Licensing
Streamline operations with a powerful software licensing service that enables you to grow recurring revenue and monitor compliance.
FlexNet Licensing
Revenera's advanced software licensing service supports the full range of monetization models, including: subscription, token, consumption, floating, device-based, node-locked, named-user, capacity, metered, pay-for-use, pay-for-overage, time-limited, and more.
It can operate as standalone infrastructure, as an SDK built into your application, or as a flexible web services framework, enabling diverse software licensing models across hybrid deployments – even in air-gapped, virtualized, and containerized environments.
Centralized licensing ensures a holistic view of end customer consumption across your entire product line, and allows you to offer flexible pricing and packaging options to meet specific customer needs.

Revenera's broad range of software licensing services support all deployments – on-premises, embedded, SaaS, and Cloud
Ikon Science is always looking to elevate our customer experience to provide the flexibility through license models and the release of new solutions with different delivery methods. Revenera has been a long-time partner to help us realize this vision by providing a variety of licensing models, remote connectivity options and allowing us to focus on technology innovation.
KEY BENEFITS OF FLEXNET LICENSING
- Improve the customer experience by enabling self-service activation
- Accelerate time-to-market with 'best of breed' licensing technology
- Easily adapt pricing and feature bundling to meet market demands
- Access to a dedicated software licensing service and customer support team
- Report and act on 'red flag behavior', such as license cloning or clock wind-back
FLEXNET LICENSING FEATURES
Dynamic Monetization
Dynamic Monetization is an API-driven cloud service that allows technology companies to introduce flexible monetization models for connected software and devices. The first supported model is Elastic Access, a unique, out-of-the-box approach that allows producers to:
- Make rapid price and packaging changes with adjustable Rate Tables
- Improve user experiences with streamlined procurement to avoid project delays
- Optimize costs for customers, as pricing aligns with value and real-time usage data ensures exact charging
- Lower barriers to entry for small and mid-size enterprises, with the ability to try new products before subscribing
- Gain actionable insights with detailed usage reports to identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
Moving to a subscription model has accelerated our growth and opened up new markets for 2020. Changing to software keys and knowing we still had control of licenses allowed us to enhance our customer experience without risking revenue loss. Revenera provided the stable, secure foundation we needed to implement these improvements.
Flexible Software Licensing Service
FlexNet Licensing comprises a range of mature, state-of-the-art software licensing services that global technology leaders trust.
When used in conjunction with the FlexNet Operations entitlement management system, you can gain usage insights to better inform product and feature planning – tracking utilization to understand key value drivers, detect overuse, manage compliance, monitor churn risk, and enable usage-based chargeback for SaaS applications.
FlexNet Licensing protects your software against revenue loss by ensuring only licensed and credentialed users can access your products. You can implement anything from strict enforcement to trust-but-verify programs, consistently enforcing license terms without impacting usability and customer satisfaction – protecting IP for on-premises products and controlling access to SaaS apps and IoT devices.
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The robust software licensing service provides multiple layers of protection, allowing you to add tamper-resistance to your code, install safeguards against unauthorized access, use secure activation mechanisms, detect hacking and overuse, and react accordingly.
Revenera has collaborated with cloud and virtualization platform providers to ensure seamless licensing functionality in these environments, and FlexNet Licensing can also detect virtual machine cloning – reacting in line with your compliance model (deny or report).
Additionally, FlexNet Licensing's sophisticated activation processes help IoT device manufacturers tackle gray market abuse by ensuring only original devices are activated.
We knew we would be gaining advantages by automating product licensing, but we wanted to make the transformation as seamless as possible. We felt we were well-positioned to take what Revenera had and integrate it with our product line to create an attractive offering for our customers.
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FlexNet Licensing
Protect and monetize your IP with flexible software licensing–on-premises, SaaS, cloud, virtualized and embedded applications.
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