Flexible. Comprehensive. Extensible.

The self-hosted software license manager

software license management tool

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Flexible

A wide range of deployment options and a full catalog of licensing models, all accessible through a single application integration.

extensible

Comprehensive

Broad capability, language, and platform support with the capacity and scalability to handle demanding licensing requirements end-to-end.

comprehensive

Extensible

When requirements outgrow stock functionality, extend the license server with custom plugins or port the client library to non-standard platforms, including embedded systems.

Enterprise Class, Multiplatform Solution


Orion OEM supports Java, C/C++, and .NET on all major enterprise and embedded platforms. C/C++ client libraries ship for Linux, Windows, macOS, and Solaris (32/64-bit). Agilis’ custom-porting program rapidly extends the client library to non-standard embedded targets, including flash-memory-based systems.
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Flexible Deployment Options

flexible licensing

Adapt to your customers’ deployment constraints. Host the Orion server yourself where that’s acceptable; redistribute it when customers restrict internet access or require fully self-managed installations.

Secure and Nonintrusive


Give customers flexibility without putting your revenue at risk or adding ops burden on either side. Orion OEM combines frictionless automation with strong enforcement — system-clock tamper detection, metered-state rollback detection, clone detection, and more — for stricter abuse protection than typical competitor products.
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Broader license-model coverage than competing products

license models

A single integration gives you the full range of models — product activation, floating, enterprise pools, and more. Each model supports absolute/relative time-limited licensing with grace and warning thresholds, usage-based metering, feature gating, leased licenses, and more.

Single API for all license models


Integrate once. Defer the choice of license model and Orion server deployment to runtime with a few parameters — so the same binary can run internet-based product activation in one deployment and LAN-based floating licensing in another.
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Auditing, Reporting, Analytics, and Real Time Alerts

analytics

Orion OEM ships with operational reports covering current license state (for example, expiring subscriptions) and an audit trail of every licensing and administration action — useful for both compliance and analytics. A configurable rules-based alert system notifies sales of trial activations and expiring licenses, and ops of events like attempted breaches or capacity limits.

Rapid, low-risk application and back-office integration


Unlike vendors who bill a premium for required integration consulting, we include it at no extra cost — so integration with your application and back-office systems is fast, low-risk, and uses the product effectively from day one.
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Orion OEM Software License Management Tool Details

The Orion OEM software license management tool can simultaneously function as a redistributed or hosted product activation server, floating license server, complex-configuration license server and software asset and activity tracking server, to protect and manage licenses for applications, plug-ins and cloud/mobile application servers implemented in multiplatform C/C++, native Java or .NET languages. Built-in platform support for C/C++ applications includes Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and Solaris 32/64-bit architectures. In addition, Agilis’ custom porting program enables rapid porting of the Orion client library to esoteric embedded system platforms and flash memory based systems.

 

Orion’s licensing capabilities include online and offline product activation, floating licensing and enterprise pools, for both named and anonymous users. License configurations include absolute and relative time limited licensing, metered licensing, standalone and pooled features, and complex configurations of licenses and features.

 

Orion’s security features are designed to be non-intrusive: without compromising licensing security, you can delegate functions such as license relocation to your customers in order to enhance their user experience (a key issue with licensing systems) and at the same time eliminate your licensing operations costs. With Orion’s product activation capabilities in conjunction with Orion’s fuzzy machine fingerprinting library, node locking is automatic and at the same time secure and flexible – you control the level of strictness of node lock checks with respect to hardware configuration changes.

 

The Orion server maintains a comprehensive audit trail that enables you to audit your customers’ activities as well as run comprehensive analytics reports for business intelligence.

 

To support proactive operations and sales opportunity management, Orion provides a number of operational reporting and real time alert capabilities. These may be used to proactively alert sales personnel of expiring subscription or trial licenses, generate reports on expiring and / or other licenses, and alert sales and / or operations personnel of events of interest such as customer license activations and system issues, respectively.

Application Types

  • Desktop applications (Internet-connected / disconnected)
  • Server applications (multithreaded, multiprocess, clustered)
  • Plug-ins (desktop and server)
  • Cloud server applications
  • Enterprise desktop applications
  • Enterprise server applications
  • Embedded system applications
  • Hardware / software appliances

 

Application Language / Platform Support

  • Multiplatform C/C++ client libraries for 32/64-bit Windows on Intel, 32/64-bit Linux on Intel (three individual sets of distributions for Ubuntu, SUSE and Red Hat editions), 32/64-bit Solaris on Intel / SPARC, 32/64-bit Mac OS X Intel / PPC
  • Native multiplatform Java client library
  • .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic .NET, …) on Windows via ActiveX DLL
  • C/C++ embedded-platform client library (custom-developed via Agilis custom porting program

Deployment Options

  • Deployable to any Java-enabled platform
  • Redistributed to enterprise customer
  • Hosted by you
  • Hosted by Agilis (Acropolis)
  • Embedded directly in license-protected Java server application
  • Deploy on Intranet / WAN / VPN
  • Deploy over Internet w/ Firewall / Proxy Server / DMZ
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    Programmatic Integration

    • Unix shell and DOS command line administration tools for scripting
    • Language-independent Web Services administration API
    • Java-based administration APIs
    • XML-based license configuration
    • Extensible APIs and data structures
    • License server: server programming interface for extensibility
    • Demo starter applications with source code

License Models

  • Single-user desktop
  • Single-user server
  • Concurrent-user desktop
  • Concurrent-user server
  • Named-user product activation
  • Named-user floating
  • Anonymous-user product activation
  • Anonymous-user floating
  • Weighted-anonymous-user floating
  • Weighted-anonymous-user product activation
  • Composite license models

License Parameters and Configurations:

  • Absolute time limited with configurable grace and warning threshold
  • Relative time limited with configurable grace and warning threshold
  • Single trial license for anonymous product download sites
  • Metered / quota limited with configurable grace and warning threshold
  • Concurrent user limit
  • Automatic leased licensing with revocability
  • Composite, nested, recursive licenses
  • License sharing control
  • Enterprise license pools
  • Extensible client library functionality
  • Extensible license server functionality

  • Complex multiparameter extensible node locking
  • System clock tamper detection
  • Metered state rollback detection
  • Protection from license cloning by end customer
  • Audit trail of all licensing activities
  • Protection from client library spoofing
  • Protection from man-in-the-middle attacks (confidentiality, authentication, integrity, non-repudiation)
  • Public key encryption for secure network communication
  • Secure offline license activation / deactivation
  • Rules-based host access control

  • Operational and historical reports
  • Screen-viewable / downloadable / APIs / command line
  • Audit trail with configurable audit verbosity
  • Historical audit reporting
  • Rules-based real time event alerts
  • Historical aggregate audit reporting
  • Operational reporting
  • Operational aggregate reporting
  • Expiring-license reports
  • Expiring-license and activation real time alerts

Learn how our customers use Orion to their benefit: check out our videos and white papers.

Request a complimentary 30 Day Orion evaluation.
 
For medium/large companies, we use an annual value-based subscription pricing model, which means we price our software license management tool based on its value to you, measured in protected revenues. Our initial / minimum pricing is also a function of your company size and any special requirements you may have. Significant discounts are available to qualified customers. If you are a small/medium ISV, you may instead opt to evaluate our Orion based Nephele monthly subscription software licensing service.
 
During the evaluation, we offer a complimentary web conference to review your licensing architecture and your requirements.
 
To request an evaluation and a price quote, contact us and an account executive will follow up with details.