Software monetization means the adoption of any variety of measures a software company takes in order to increase the profitability of their intellectual property. Every software monetization strategy is unique. In order to maximize the value you are deriving from your software offering, your strategy should take into consideration each aspect of software monetization - packaging, control, management, and monitoring.

SafeNet's Software Monetization solutions are comprehensive and extensible.  From the start-up to the enterprise, our comprehensive suite of products, including Sentinel LDK, Sentinel EMS, Sentinel RMS, and Sentinel Cloud, allow you to not only grow your software business but also work seamlessly with outside products.  In addition, SafeNet's Sentinel Professional Services team of software licensing and entitlement management experts are available to guide you through the setup and implementation process.

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Sentinel Software Monetization Solutions

Sentinel is the most trusted brand in the software industry for secure, flexible, and future-proof software monetization solutions. The robust portfolio of products and services address each and every aspect of the software monetization lifecycle – from copy and intellectual property (IP) protection to product catalog management and ongoing end-user experience improvement. SafeNet is the first and only vendor to offer a complete portfolio of software licensing and entitlement management solutions to enable monetization of any type of software – installed, embedded, and cloud services – using any combination of business models via any sales channel to any end-user device.

 Software Protection 

A robust suite of hardware, software, and cloud based licensing solutions designed to prevent unauthorized use and distribution of software products and services while protecting an ISV’s IP from tampering and/or reverse engineering.

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Software Licensing Operations

Flexible, feature-rich solution designed to make entitlement generation, tracking, and ongoing management quick and easy for both the software publisher and their end users to reduce costs and improve customer experience.

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SaaS Monetization

The industry’s first and only cloud-based licensing solution for enabling SaaS and other cloud service providers to define, provision, control, and track versatile service offerings right down to the feature level.

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Professional Software Licensing Services

Full suite of consulting and implementation services to help you define, align, and deliver a licensing strategy that meets the business objectives and operational processes unique to your organization regardless of where you are at in the lifecycle of your licensing project.

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Embedded Software Licensing

A complete suite of software licensing and entitlement management solutions designed to protect and manage applications delivered as part of a high-tech device or piece of industrial equipment. Typically used for IP protection and remote version and/or feature management to streamline hardware costs.

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Licensing in Virtualized Environments

The industry’s first and only technology agnostic solution for software license authorization and enforcement on virtual machines (VMs).

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Sentinel Software Monetization Products and Services

Easy to integrate and use, innovative, and feature-focused, the company’s family of Sentinel® Software Monetization Solutions are designed to meet the unique license enablement, enforcement, and management requirements of any organization, regardless of size, technical requirements, or organizational structure.

Software Licensing Offerings

An award-winning suite of hardware, software, and cloud based licensing solutions for protecting software applications from piracy, overuse, or code manipulation in order to maximize profitability and protect competitive IP.

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Entitlement Management Offerings

A feature-rich entitlement management system offered hosted, as a service, or for on-premise installation for enabling software publishers to streamline and easily manage all operational tasks associated with software licensing.

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SaaS Licensing & Management Offerings

A CODiE award winning software licensing and entitlement management service architected from the ground up to support the unique catalog definition, provisioning, control, and usage tracking challenges of SaaS and other cloud service delivery.

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Software Monetization Consulting and Implementation Services

A full suite of consulting and implementation services to help you define, align, and deliver a licensing strategy that meets the business objectives and operational processes unique to your organization regardless of where you are at in the lifecycle of your licensing project.

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Software Monetization Resources

SafeNet provides the industry’s leading software protection, licensing, and entitlement management solutions for installed, embedded, and cloud applications.  Please review the resources below for details.

 

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Best Practices in White Box Cryptography 

Using a proven phased LifeCycle approach, the SafeNet Professional Services team combines project management with both technical and business-focused consulting services.  Want to improve efficiencies, increase ROI, and incraease customer satisfaction? View this webcast for best practices and case studies for developing license lifecycles that work for you. Are you a software vendor considering adding the cloud to your delivery model? Are you a SaaS provider looking to improve your business delivery?  Join Forrester's Holger Kisker, principal analyst, to learn why cloud is where you want to go, why customers are demanding more licensing flexibility, and how gaining customer insight will lead to an optimized cloud-based business model.Licensing is no longer a set-it and forget-it function.  Join this webcast and learn about the upfront work required to build out your strategy and vision before jumping into the technology part of the equation.  Please join SafeNet's Dave DiMillo as he shares his expertise and walks you through how to get your software licensing project right the first time.Join SafeNet's Ask The Experts Webcast Series.  This webcast covers the threats that necessitate white box cryptography and the security dilemma posed by this essential component. Join this webcast and learn about threats as related to dongle emulation, the importance and weaknesses of the secure channel, and how to solve the encryption dilemma without revealing sensitive data.
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Licensing Live Events

LicensingLive offers a unique opportunity for software vendors and high-tech manufacturers to learn how to address your licensing challenges among your peers in the software licensing and entitlement management sector. This industry event was created to discuss the issues facing our rapidly changing industry.

  • Receive guidance on software licensing decisions and challenges you are facing
  • Learn about innovative licensing solutions to thrive in this new environment
  • Discuss the newest licensing technologies for taking your software pricing, packaging, and management strategies to the next level in order to maximize profitability
  • Discuss best practices around integrating licensing into your business processes and existing back-office systems

This industry-leading event is featured in cities worldwide. For a list of upcoming LicensingLive events, please click the link below.


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LicensingLive 2012
Cupertino, CA
October 2-3, 2012
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Webinars and Videos

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Sentinel Software Monetization Products: Try Us for Free

At SafeNet, we believe the best way to tell you how secure and easy our products are is to show you.  That’s why we provide our award-winning software monetization solutions  in FREE trial versions, so you can try before you buy.

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Sentinel LDK

Award-winning software protection and intuitive entitlement management features all in one out-of-the-box solutions! Leverage hardware or software-based license enforcement techniques to protect your revenue while Sentinel EMS helps you centralize all operational processes associated with licensing!

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Sentinel Cloud

Software Licensing and entitlement management delivered as a service, for cloud services! Try the 2012 CODiE   Winner and take your software monetization business to the cloud.



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Sentinel RMS and Sentinel RMS Embedded

Sentinel RMS is a robust license enforcement and enablement solution providing software and technology vendors with control and visibility into how their applications are deployed and used.

Sentinel RMS Embedded is a low footprint, highly portable version of Sentinel RMS, ideal for mobile devices.

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Sentinel EMS

Are operational tasks associated with licensing weighing down internal resources or complicating your customer experience? Streamline your back office processes with our web-based entitlement management system.

 

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Licensing Live Blog -LicensingLive!

Recently, Adobe announced that it is moving the Creative Suite (which includes Photoshop and other graphic design applications) to Cloud-based licensing. The company will no longer distribute boxed versions with perpetual licenses. This move demonstrates a growing transition to Cloud-based … Read More >>

At last night’s All About The Cloud event presented by the Software & Information Industry Association, the team from SafeNet was awarded the Best DRM Solution CODiE award this year for their next generation software monetization solution, Sentinel LDK.  This … Read More >>

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