Instant. Complete. Trustworthy.

A fully hosted, zero-infrastructure software license manager.

software license manager

instant

Instant

No setup, no hardware, no license-server learning curve. Your developers can start integrating Acropolis with your application and back-office the day you sign up.

complete

Complete

We run everything for you — license server, hosting, uptime, security, and scale — in a single package with unlimited license users.

trustworthy

Trustworthy

Acropolis runs in a Tier 1 data center with hardened security and elastic capacity. We own the uptime, so your business takes the downtime risk off its books.

Enterprise Class, Multiplatform Solution


Built for 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 Orion client library to non-standard embedded targets, including flash-memory-based systems.
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Flexible Deployment Options

flexible software license manager

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

A hosted license server, without the operations burden


Acropolis is an internet-hosted license manager for enterprise software vendors, cloud service providers, and embedded-system vendors. Hardware, OS, license server, uptime, database provisioning, and ongoing maintenance all sit with Agilis — the operational cost and downtime risk leave your balance sheet.
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Secure and Non-Intrusive Software License Manager

secure software license manager

Give customers flexibility without putting your revenue at risk or adding ops burden on either side. Acropolis 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.

Broader license-model coverage than competing products


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.
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Single API for all license models

Api integration

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.

Auditing, Reporting, Analytics, and Real Time Alerts


Acropolis 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.
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Rapid, low-risk application and back-office integration

no risk

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.

Acropolis Software License Manager Details

Acropolis delivers everything the Orion OEM Software License Management Tool as an Internet-hosted licensing service for enterprise ISVs, cloud service providers and embedded system vendors. With Acropolis, you can expect the same full range of capabilities including: product activation, Internet-based floating licensing, enterprise license pooling and complex license configurations are available for both Internet-connected and disconnected systems.

 

In addition to hosting all the necessary hardware, operating system and license server at a Tier 1 data center, an Acropolis subscription includes services for managing license server uptime, setting up and managing license databases and services, and maintaining your license with Agilis. Browser-based user interfaces are provided for self-service license entitlement, auditing and reporting over the Internet.

 

You can also automate license generation, reporting and administration from your back-office systems via Web Services, the remote Java API and / or remote command-line integration tools. Optional operations and integration professional services are also available.

 
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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

Acropolis is unique in that Agilis will host the license server and remove the worry out of hosting your it yourself, however you can also still deploy in the following ways:

  • Deployable to any Java-enabled platform
  • Redistributed to enterprise customer
  • Hosted by you
  • 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 Acropolis to their benefit or check out videos, and white papers.

Acropolis is available as an annual subscription license that includes the Orion OEM license. The frame of reference for evaluating the cost of an Acropolis service vis a vis a straight Orion OEM license is primarily the value to you of reducing the business risk of license server downtime. Secondarily, the cost difference may be compared with the cost of employing and training an operator, as well as the hardware / software / network infrastructure costs.

 

Depending on your capacity and flexibility requirements, the hosting service component of Acropolis is available in a number of configurations:

  • Core service: multi-tenant, medium capacity, suitable for tens of thousands of concurrently-active licenses.
  • Premium service: multi-tenant, high capacity, suitable for reseller models and hundreds of thousands of concurrently-active licenses.
  • Dedicated service: single-tenant, suitable if you (a) require unlimited capacity (b) require a failover configuration (c) need to install custom server plug-ins (d) need to host your branded user interfaces.

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