Cloud-native network licensing for cloud services.

Use Orion’s cloud licensing capabilities to open up new market segments.

The capabilities cloud licensing actually requires

Internet scalability across all categories of remote devices

Internet-protocol-native licensing with named-user and anonymous-user floating models. Scales to millions of concurrent licenses and controls remote devices from your Orion-integrated cloud server.

New business models with cloud licensing

Enable subscription, feature, pay-per-use, hourly rental, and enterprise floating models — in any combination.

Audit trail, operational reports and business intelligence

Orion exposes an audit trail for compliance and historical aggregate reporting, plus operational data for current-state reporting.

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What cloud licensing with Orion gets you

Why cloud services need software licensing

The common objection — "we host the server, why node-lock?" — misses the point. Node-locking still applies when you license the cloud server to multiple providers, but more importantly, cloud licensing is about subscription, metered, feature, and combination models — not just node-locking. You can build basic subscription and capacity-limit logic in-house, or get all of it (plus seamless product activation, remote device node-locking, and cloud-based enterprise floating licensing from the same service) out of the box with Orion.

Business models that become viable with Orion

Integrating Orion lets you go well past basic capacity-based subscriptions: feature-by-feature pay-per-use, time-based software rental, restrictions on user-license sharing (so you can price down to small-customer segments with no minimum), device-category restrictions and tiered pricing (for example, tablet vs. smartphone), and concurrent-user enterprise licensing from the same hosted service — without redistributing a separate floating-license-server build.

Licensing in the cloud

Orion itself is available as a cloud service through Acropolis and Nephele, so there’s no Orion-server install or operations cost on your side — integrate the Orion client library, sign up for Acropolis or Nephele, and you’re ready to launch.