SafeNet Delivers Industry’s First Licensing and Monetization Solution for Hybrid On-Premise and Cloud-based Software Portfolios

BALTIMORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in data protection, today announced enhancements to its award-winning Sentinel software monetization solution, Sentinel Cloud, that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to easily license and monetize their on-premise, hybrid, and cloud-based solutions.

SafeNet Executive Comment:

“This enhancement to the Sentinel portfolio was specifically designed for ISVs that are reaching for the cloud but not quite ready to make the full transition away from on-premise software,” said SafeNet vice president, product management, Jake Fox. “We know there are a lot of reasons why vendors can’t fully transition their software to the cloud – from legacy customers to legacy back-end systems and licensing models. We get that, and we have enhanced the Cross-Locking of our Sentinel portfolio specifically to help them seamlessly migrate all or a portion of their business to the cloud on a timetable that works best with their existing architecture and licensing models.”

Background:

To gain the benefits of cloud computing, software developers are transitioning from traditional software installed at the end-user premises to SaaS-based solutions, which provide them with operational savings and a much more engaging user experience. As these vendors make the transition, many are finding that their on-premise licensing models do not easily transition to the SaaS world. In order to help customers address this issue, SafeNet has enhanced its Sentinel software licensing and monetization solutions to meet the needs of software developers making the transition to the cloud.

Leveraging the unique Cross-Locking component of Sentinel Cloud’s Protect Once, Deliver Many, Evolve Often design philosophy, software developers can easily ‘test the waters’ of SaaS while still making the most of their traditional solutions. Sentinel is the only available solution on the market that enables vendors to transition at their own pace, while supporting all software offerings with a single set of APIs (application programming interfaces) and a centralized back-office entitlement management system. By doing so, it helps users try new and more flexible licenses, regardless of how the software is delivered.

Sentinel’s cloud-based software delivery has created a continuous “live” engagement model that provides ISVs with visibility into all service usage, resulting in instant access to customer intelligence in order to fuel low-touch sales cycles and provide customers with more flexibility, faster start times, and a better overall experience.

Key Benefits for Customers:

SafeNet’s award-winning Sentinel family of licensing and monetization software and services is designed to drive monetization by enabling software developers to define flexible service catalogs, provision contracts, and automate business processes, as well as control and monitor usage, and adapt offerings to meet customers evolving needs.

The features of SafeNet’s Sentinel Cloud solution, which have been designed specifically to support an ISV’s transition from on-premise-only to hybrid or SaaS-only delivery models, include:

• Common source code for all applications, whether installed on-premise or delivered as a cloud service
• Support for cloud elasticity to address the licensing demands of SaaS users
• Offline behavior control, including usage data collection and enforcement to support ‘usage-based’ business models for occasionally disconnected applications
• A single common operational system for provisioning and delivering business metrics to streamline all licensing and entitlement management tasks across an ISV’s product and services portfolio

Only SafeNet’s Sentinel technology provides all of these features in a single solution.

Industry Comments:

“Many software developers are challenged with licensing policies that pre-date cloud. Rudimentary licensing controls and metrics that worked for on-premise software or in early ‘wildfire’ stages of SaaS growth – like per-user or per-month – may no longer work as cloud services scale. Having a solution that’s flexible enough to adapt to developers’ delivery models and scale as they grow puts SafeNet in a unique position in the market.”
– Amy Konary, Research Vice President, Software Licensing, Provisioning, and Delivery at IDC.

Additional Resources:

• Join us on Wednesday, June 13^th at 2:00pm ET for a free online webinar: The Best of Both Worlds – Hybrid Software Monetization, to learn more about how Sentinel Cloud can fuel your company’s hybrid on-premise and SaaS software monetization strategy.
• Download a free SafeNet white paper on software pricing and packaging strategiesfor hybrid software portfolios.
  • For more information on SafeNet Sentinel Could Services and to get a free trial, visit http://www.sentinelcloud.com/. Or request to meet a SafeNet executiveat one of these upcoming industry events:
    • SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) All About the Cloud Conference in San Francisco – May 8-10
    • Secure Cloud in Frankfurt – May 9-10
    • The AWS Summit 2012 | Navigate the Cloud in Sydney – May 17
    • The Cloud Computing World Forum in London – June 12-13

About SafeNet’s Software Monetization Solutions

SafeNet offers the industry’s strongest, most flexible software licensing and management solutions. The Sentinel portfolio provides award-winning IP protection, software licensing, and entitlement management technology that minimizes software piracy risks and enables flexible licensing, pricing, and packaging models that help software developers create new revenue opportunities and improve customer satisfaction.

To learn more about SafeNet’s cloud-based licensing and entitlement management service, visit www.sentinelcloud.com. To learn more about SafeNet’s full portfolio of software monetization solutions, visit www.safenet-inc.com/sentinel.

About SafeNet

Founded in 1983, SafeNet, Inc. is one of the largest information security companies in the world, and is trusted to protect the most sensitive data for market-leading organizations around the globe. SafeNet’s data-centric approach focuses on the protection of high-value information throughout its lifecycle, from the data center to the cloud. More than 25,000 customers across commercial enterprises and government agencies trust SafeNet to protect and control access to sensitive data, manage risk, ensure compliance, and secure virtual and cloud environments.