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The Best of Both Worlds – On-Premise Applications with Cloud Licensing
8 years ago

The Best of Both Worlds – On-Premise Applications with Cloud Licensing

The WSJ recently ran an interesting article on the key challenges of moving to the cloud.

“When on-demand enterprise applications emerged about a decade ago, they were touted as a cheap and more flexible alternative to buying software outright – a move that comes with upfront infrastructure and licensing costs, on top of ongoing fees for maintenance, support, and upgrades. But in practice, these promises have been hard to fulfill”.

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Cloud Licensing for Customer Success
8 years ago

Cloud Licensing for Customer Success

At this year’s LicensingLive! event in Cupertino, CA, I spoke about the importance of Customer Success Programs, what they involve, and what businesses hope to achieve with them. The success of a software company is often measured in terms of how well it engages its customers. After all, a business without an active user base is like a bird without wings – it simply won’t fly. Read More

How Cloud Is Changing the Way We Do Business
8 years ago

How Cloud Is Changing the Way We Do Business

One of the highlights of the software industry calendar, Cloud World Forum, took place on June 24-25, 2015 at London’s Olympia Grand. The two day expo was aimed at helping C-level decision makers achieve business agility through cloud, analytics, mobility, and social technologies. With 300 speakers from across the IT community, there was something for enterprises of all sizes; SMEs and startups alike. Of course, we were front and center with our presentation, “Transforming Your Business in the Digital Economy”, which sparked some interesting conversations over at our booth.

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Spring Software Cleaning: Moving to the Cloud
9 years ago

Spring Software Cleaning: Moving to the Cloud

As part of my family’s annual exercise, I’ve spent the last couple of weekends doing some spring cleaning. As I remove loads and loads of accumulated junk at home, I cannot but wish I had stayed lean and had to manage less. This is a sentiment I’m sure most IT managers echo when they look at their portfolio. Cloud and subscription however, are changing that. Let us examine the effects of going to cloud licensing in the context of spring cleaning: staying lean, nimble and flexible.

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SafeNet Introduces ‘All-in-One’ Software Licensing Solution
9 years ago

SafeNet Introduces ‘All-in-One’ Software Licensing Solution

SafeNet Inc. announced on Tuesday an enhanced version of its signature Sentinel LDK product. Sentinel LDK is a software monetization solution that provides hardware-, software-, and cloud-based license delivery, intellectual property (IP) protection, and license management from a single, cloud-based platform. Sentinel LDK gives vendors the flexibility to meet the specific licensing demands of each of their customer groups regardless of their preferred delivery model.

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Is Spring the Time to Get Cloudy?
9 years ago

Is Spring the Time to Get Cloudy?

One of the most common questions that I come across when meeting with software providers from around the world is “How can we make the transition from being an on-premise software vendor to a cloud software provider?”

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Software Vendors in an Online World – Get Ahead with Customer Insight
11 years ago

Software Vendors in an Online World – Get Ahead with Customer Insight

What makes the most successful Internet companies so successful?  They understand that the Internet is much more than a delivery channel – it is a customer feedback channel.  So they get smarter every day, and improve constantly.  Software companies have yet to capture this opportunity – today the Internet is reduced to the conduit for ESD (Electronic Software Distribution), or the live application (Cloud). Read More

LicensingLive London 2012: From On-Premise into the Cloud
11 years ago

LicensingLive London 2012: From On-Premise into the Cloud

Why choose either cloud-based OR on-premise delivery for your software, when you can do both?
by Ariella Shoham, EMEA SRM FIeld Marketing Manager

Last month, we got together again for LicensingLive London, our annual “cloud gathering” at the Royal Institute of Great Britain in London. The surroundings – the RIGB Library, surrounded by hundreds (if not thousands) of scientific publications and books was the ideal setting for discussing some of the hottest topics in the world of Software as a Service. Read More

Sentinel Cloud Wins CODiE Award for Best DRM Solution!
12 years ago

Sentinel Cloud Wins CODiE Award for Best DRM Solution!

 

Last night, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced the winners of the 2012 CODiE awards – an awards program 27 years in the making dedicated to recognizing excellence in the business software, digital content, and education technology industries. I am pleased to announce that SafeNet’s software licensing and entitlement management solution for cloud services, Sentinel Cloud, was awarded the industry’s Best Digital Rights Management Solution CODiE award!

SafeNet's CODiE Award
Prakash Panjwani with SafeNet’s CODiE Award for Best DRM Solution

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Let’s Do It In The Cloud!
12 years ago

Let’s Do It In The Cloud!

We know you’ve been thinking about it.  You’ve been just a little unsure if you’re ready to do it in the cloud.  You might think the cloud is just for the big SaaS players and doing it there is beyond your reach Read More