Floating Licensing

Scalable, flexible, secure floating-license server deployment.

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Flexible

New deployment options, scaling to millions of concurrent users over the internet, with the license configurations modern application categories require. See how it stacks up against the competition.

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Secure

Closes the security gaps common to traditional floating-license servers, and proactively addresses the new ones that come with virtual-machine, cloud, and mobile deployment environments.

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Complete

Full range of deployment options — secure commuter licensing, internet-hosted licensing, auditing, real-time alerts, reporting, and analytics — for both you and your customers.

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nephele software licensing service
orion software license management tool
acropolis software license manager

A more flexible floating-license model


Where traditional floating-license solutions rely on heartbeats and in-memory state, ours uses stateless HTTP plus an object-relational database. The operational and security benefits:

  • Cloud-scale: each service under a license-server instance supports millions of concurrent user licenses over internet, intranet, WAN, or VPN.
  • Named floating users: at the administrator’s discretion, floating users may be pre-registered as named users.
  • Adjustable degree of float: what it means to acquire a floating license is configurable — so the model fits your operational requirements rather than the other way around.
  • Sophisticated models for sophisticated requirements — for example, multiple-pool named-plus-anonymous-user floating licenses, which aren’t available elsewhere.
  • Deployment flexibility: unlike traditional floating-license servers, you don’t have to redistribute a license server into each customer LAN — though you can if you want to.

See how we stack up against the competition.

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Secure across the threat surface

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Floating licensing across all three Agilis products covers the full range of breach scenarios — common to rare. The included measures:

  • Hardened against common floating-license-server vulnerabilities — process termination, network disconnection, and the like.
  • Secure self-service commuter licensing
  • Controlled license sharing in cloud, mobile and virtual machine environments
  • Enforceable fairness policies prevent monopolization by individual users.
  • Anti-spoofing, tamper detection, system clock and state rollback detection for redistributed-server deployments
  • See a full list of security features

Different by design — complete by design


The architecture is structurally different from competitors’ products, and that’s precisely why it ends up more complete. A short list of capabilities:

  • Online access from secure network environments with firewalls, http proxy servers and DMZs
  • Disconnected-mode operation: self-service offline commuter licensing, overdrafts
  • Real time alerts for concurrent-user-limit, expiring-license conditions and other actionable events
  • Auditing, reporting and analytics on concurrent-licensing events and statistics
  • Unified application integration for multiple licensing modes (product activation, floating licensing, trial licensing, complex license configurations)
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Available With All Our Solutions:

nephele software licensing service
orion software license management tool
acropolis software license manager

Floating licensing without peer

Most floating-license products are checkout/checkin against a simple LAN-based in-memory server — with the security and scalability issues that go with it.

  • Conventional LAN-based floating license
  • Secure from concurrent-user oversubscription
  • Non-secure offline commuter license
  • Secure offline commuter license
  • Redistributed license server
  • WAN-hosted floating license server for global enterprises
  • Internet-hosted floating license server
  • Named-user floating license model
  • Multiple/hierarchical floating license pools per license
  • Complex license configuration
  • Real time visibility into customer license usage
  • Real time alerts
  • Concurrent-usage sampler for analysis
  • Comprehensive online reporting and analytics
  • Offline reporting and analytics
  • Scalable to millions of concurrent-user licenses
  • Single application integration for activation and floating licensing
  • Support Native Java applications

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Available With All Our Solutions:

nephele software licensing service
orion software license management tool
acropolis software license manager