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Flexible Software Licensing Provides New, Enriched Customer Experience

By Rachel Ramsey, TMCnet Web Editor

Protecting intellectual property and properly monetizing investments requires a comprehensive and flexible software license management solution. Software licensing relies on a legal instrument to determine how software can be used and redistributed. Flexible configuration and capacity, controlled via software and monetized via software licensing, creates new ways for device manufacturers to provide value to customers.

Jim Peterman, senior product manager, Tekelec (News - Alert), explained how licensing gives the capability to manage configurability and scalability in a very practical and discreet fashion. Tekelec, a telecommunications solutions provider, is transitioning from a hardware-oriented company to a software-based company. Peterman is also helping implement the new licensing program.

The new licensing program allows Tekelec to customize a product for a specific customer and control what they have access to as well as the capacity of the overall system. When it meters the product along with licensing, it gives insight to the usage and helps with proactive planning for expansion and growth; a win-win for both the provider and customer.

Tekelec’s portfolio provides a unique intelligence layer in the network that allows service providers to both manage and monetize the exponential growth in mobile web, video and applications traffic. It uses licensing to manage the complexity of its highly configurable and scalable products. Since no two networks are alike and no two carriers take the same strategy to managing them, they have plenty of optional features, as well as a tremendous amount of scalability to accommodate businesses of any size.

Tekelec offers products in session management, subscriber data management, and policy management, as well as helps carriers and service providers manage their network resources and deliver the services their end customers need to enrich their experience.

Companies like Flexera Software offer software licensing solutions to help enable proactive planning. FlexNet Embedded and FlexNet Publisher are part of Flexera’s comprehensive suite of software licensing, entitlement management, electronic software delivery, software updates and compliance management solutions.

FlexNet Embedded gives intelligent device manufacturers the power to unlock revenue with a tailored software licensing, pricing and packaging solution for their embedded software, and FlexNet Publisher software licensing makes it easy for software producers and intelligent device manufacturers to manage, secure, enhance and grow market share through flexible pricing, packaging, licensing and protection of their software.