Sentinel RMS Embedded

Designed for Embedded Systems

Because embedded systems are created for very specific tasks, every aspect of the device is designed to minimize costs. The resulting system often runs on a non-standard platform, with little ability to interact with the device beyond a basic interface or terminal. A reduced footprint helped by efficient use of memory, together with a new level of remote configuration and license management ensures that Sentinel RMS embedded the ideal software monetization solution for hardware device and equipment manufacturers.

Quick Implementation & Portability

Sentinel RMS Embedded cuts integration time by providing an easy to use published API that lets you quickly integrate licensing into your application. Because Sentinel RMS Embedded has reduced hardware dependencies, it is easily ported to non-standard operating environments in which embedded systems typically run.

With customizable license enforcement options, you can lock the licenses to the unique and often proprietary aspects of your hardware among the other more standard options (Disk, NIC). The design of Sentinel Embedded solutions allows vendors to adjust license models and terms without the need for any software changes. This enables rapid adjustment to market conditions.

Ease of Deployment

Sentinel RMS Embedded supports multiple activation options. Systems can be shipped with pre-installed licenses. Additional features, license renewals and updates can be delivered as required. The solution allows licenses to be sent via e-mail, Internet, or memory keys, giving you the maximum required flexibility in deployment.

The ability to lock licenses to a system allows you to separate the licensing terms from the actual license generation. This greatly facilitates channel-based fulfillment and is especially important in regions where security is of concern. By separating the role of license distribution and license generation, vendors can maintain control over their products and increase market penetration at the same time.

Superior Technical Support

The SafeNet Technical Services organization provides worldwide telephone, email and Internet-based support to our customers. Our SafeNet Service Pledge ensures that you consistently receive the highest level of service. The Sentinel Integration Center provides online resources to assist your development staff through the implementation process.

Benefits:

• Prevent product tampering or reverse engineering in order to preserve product and brand integrity.
• Prevent unauthorized reproduction and distribution of your products in order to protect new and existing revenue.
• Reach new market segments with flexible packaging techniques in order to maximize revenue.
• Reduce operational costs by simplifying your inventory management, customer support, product upgrade, and contract renewal processes.
• Improve customer experience and new feature adoption rates by providing a ‘touch-less’ customer management process making product activation, upgrade, renewal, and support tasks easier and more likely to occur. 

Detailed Features: 

Product Configuration Management

Utilization of Sentinel RMS Embedded will allow you to generate multiple pricing and packaging options from one primary code build. By enabling you to deliver the same offering (software + hardware combination) to every customer every time and then define the level of device functionality or feature access for each end-user via licensing remotely, you will be able to reduce inventory costs and simplify many operational processes.

Flexible Business Models

The implementation of licensing enables you to offer a much broader range of purchasing and consumption business models to your end-users. With licensing you can enable free trials of certain high-value features; pre or post paid usage based pricing models, or even enter into subscription based business models. Examples of various licensing models can be applied to the delivery of high value software include:

Adoption of feature-based and usage-based pricing models provides customers with a stronger association between what they need and what they are paying for. It eliminates the dissatisfaction typically associated with fear that they may be paying for a lot of functionality that they are not actually using. This transparency will dramatically increase satisfaction and in many cases could result in greater retention and increased likelihood for more business in the future.

Additionally, the implementation of Sentinel RMS Embedded also allows you to separate regular maintenance updates from the delivery of new functionality. This assists you in differentiating between a maintenance delivery and higher value software deliveries and to charge for them accordingly, resulting in increased potential for incremental revenues.

Remote Feature Management

Sentinel RMS Embedded allows your customers to purchase advanced features and new functionality easily and automatically. These features can be enabled by means of electronic licensing rather than via a complex hardware upgrade process.

The ability to control the add/remove access to functionality and upgrade software remotely not only dramatically improves the end-user experience; it also has a significant impact on operating costs. Remote feature management will eliminate the need for costly shipments or on-site maintenance visits.

Centralized Entitlement Management & Business Process Automation

Full integration with Sentinel EMS, the company’s enterprise entitlement management system provides device and equipment manufacturers with the option to easily centralize data storage and automate many of the laborious processes associated with customer lifecycle management – from product activation to ongoing use and upgrade management-- in order to further reduce operating costs while also improving customer experience.

Centralized management improves accuracy as well by ensuring that all systems are synchronized with respect to licensing information. This also ensures that your licensing management can grow as your systems and requirements grow. Additionally, the ability to audit and log license terms allows vendors to ensure compliance for both internal purposes as well as regulatory requirements.

All Sentinel software monetization solutions are designed to easily integrate with existing back office systems without disrupting operational processes already in place and are specifically engineered to be database-agnostic and readily extensible. This allows vendors to create license delivery mechanisms that meet the needs of their IT departments, distribution channels and customers.

Designed for Embedded Systems

Because embedded systems are created for very specific tasks, every aspect of the device is designed to minimize costs. The resulting system often runs on a non-standard platform, with little ability to interact with the device beyond a basic interface or terminal. A reduced footprint helped by efficient use of memory, together with a new level of remote configuration and license management ensures that Sentinel RMS Embedded the ideal software monetization solution for hardware device and equipment manufacturers.

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