Affordable. Elastic. Frictionless.

A cloud-based software licensing service for startups and small ISVs.

software licensing service

affordable

Affordable

An enterprise-class licensing service priced for companies that start small and grow. Monthly subscription pricing scales down to a few cents per end-user license as your volume increases.

elastic

Elastic

Nephele scales user-license capacity without disruption while you refine your business model, then upgrades cleanly to Acropolis or Orion OEM when you outgrow it.

frictionless

Frictionless

Self-service throughout: monthly credit-card sign-up in minutes, and instant self-service upgrades, downgrades, and account changes.

Enterprise Class, Multiplatform Solution


Nephele supports Java and C/C++ on all major enterprise platforms. C/C++ client libraries ship for Linux, Windows, macOS, and Solaris (32/64-bit).
multiplatform software licensing service

A hosted license server, without the operations burden

hosted licensing service

Nephele is an internet-hosted licensing service for enterprise ISVs and cloud service providers. Product activation, internet-based floating licensing, enterprise license pooling, and complex license configurations all work across connected and disconnected systems. Agilis owns the hardware, OS, license server, uptime, database provisioning, and ongoing maintenance — all in a Tier 1 data center.

Secure and Non-intrusive


Give customers flexibility without putting your revenue at risk or adding ops burden on either side. Nephele combines frictionless automation with strong enforcement — system-clock tamper detection, metered-state rollback detection, clone detection, and more. See the full security feature list.
secure software licensing service

Low cost, full functionality

low cost

Nephele prices the license server by concurrent active user licenses, so startups begin on a low monthly plan and scale to a low per-user subscription as volume grows. Nearly all the capabilities of our high-end offerings are available at a fraction of the cost (restrictions apply).

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. See the full list of license models and parameters.
licensing models

Auditing, Reporting, Analytics, and Real Time Alerts

analytics

Nephele 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.

Nephele Software Licensing Service Details

Nephele is an elastic cloud-based monthly subscription software licensing service tailored to the needs of startups and small-business ISVs that develop and market Java and C/C++ applications, plug-ins and cloud services. The Nephele service is based on the Orion network licensing platform, and is hosted by Agilis at a Tier 1 data center.

As a startup or small-business ISV, Nephele enables you to fine-tune your capital outlay according to the stage of your product and company in your marketplace – as your product succeeds in the marketplace, you can seamlessly scale up the Nephele subscription plans and eventually transition to an OEM Orion license. At the same time, you do not have to compromise on the quality or functionality available with Nephele – virtually the entire gamut of Orion’s licensing capabilities, platform support and reporting and analytics capabilities that are utilized by leading medium and large ISVs are available to you – including but not limited to online and offline product activation, hosted floating licensing, enterprise pooling, and complex license configurations.

 

A small number of functionality and qualification restrictions apply.

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

Application language / platform support:

  • Multiplatform C/C++ client libraries for 32/64-bit Windows on Intel, 32/64-bit Linux on Intel (Ubuntu, SUSE, Red Hat), 32/64-bit Solaris on Intel / SPARC, 32/64-bit Mac OS X Intel / PPC
  • Native multiplatform Java client library

License Models

  • Single-user desktop
  • Single-user server
  • Concurrent-user desktop
  • Concurrent-user server
  • Named-user product activation
  • Named-user floating
  • Hosted floating license
  • 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

Concurrent-license limits depend on the Nephele subscription package you purchase – please review the Try & Buy tab

  • Basic and 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

Nephele is based on the Orion Network Licensing Platform. Learn how you can use Nephele for your licensing scenarios by viewing our videos and white papers.
We offer a number of Nephele subscription packages with the same functionality and different concurrent-license limits. You may subscribe to a package and later seamlessly upgrade at any time. To discuss a plan, contact us.

All Nephele Licensing Plans Includes The Following Features

Requirements and Language Compatibility

Native multiplatform Java client library

Multiplatform C/C++ client libraries

Agilis-Hosted with guaranteed up-time

Comprehensive licensing security

Licensing Scenarios

Anonymous-user node-locked

Anonymous-user floating

Weighted-anonymous-user floating

Composite license models

Single-user desktop and server

Concurrent-user desktop and server

Named-user node-locked and floating

Concurrent user limit

Composite, nested, recursive licenses

License sharing control

Enterprise license pools

Hosted floating license

Absolute time limited with configurable grace and warning threshold

Relative time limited with configurable grace and warning threshold

Metered / quota limited with configurable grace and warning threshold

Single trial license for anonymous product download sites

Extensible client library functionality

Automatic leased licensing with revocability

Extensible license server functionality

Additional Features and Support

Real Time Alerts

Auditing

Reporting

In-depth knowledge base


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