12 years ago
When someone steals your hardware, you know that it’s missing. When someone is stealing your intellectual property, you may never know.
For high-tech equipment manufacturers, times are changing. It is clear that the inevitable process has begun, hardware is being commoditized and, moving forward, business will be based more and more on software. Are you ready?
Iritech is a global manufacturer in the biometric authentication equipment and software industry. As one of only two manufacturers of both the biometric equipment and the identity matching software, Iritech knew right away that preventing reverse-engineering of its identity matching software would be an integral part of its business plan to maintain its unique position in the biometrics market. Read More
12 years ago
Manufacturing: An Industry in Transition towards Software Licensing
Part 1 of 3 from the series “Take on Licensing: What High-Tech Manufacturers Need to Know”
If you’re an equipment manufacturer in the high-tech sector, you are probably already deeply involved in the evolution from a pure hardware manufacturer to a software vendor. Whether you are in the business of selling software-driven equipment for the automotive industry, medical imaging and diagnostics, digital printing, sophisticated surveillance systems, coin-operated gaming and casino gambling, the change to software licensing is impacting your business.
