Helping Intelligent Device Manufacturers Create Virtual Appliances with the Right Software Licensing and Entitlement Management Solution

1. DATASHEET
Benefits to Intelligent
Device Manufacturers
• Protect and monetize
intellectual property
• Automate capacity and
capability provisioning
and de-provisioning
• Enable field-upgrade of
capacity and capabilities
• Report deployment of
virtual appliances to
facilitate comparison of
capacity and capabilities
owned versus deployed
by an end customer
• Improve revenues by
gaining clear visibility
into channel partner
performance and
enabling self-service
Solutions for Intelligent Device
Manufacturers Moving to Virtual Appliances
Helping Intelligent Device Manufacturers Create Virtual Appliances with the
Right Software Monetization Solution
The Transformation of the Intelligent Device
Manufacturing Industry
More and more intelligent device manufacturers
are moving to embedded software and software
add-ons to differentiate and increase the
value of their hardware. As margins for high-
tech equipment continues to erode, many are
increasingly looking for ways to increase device
capacity and capability without having to
manufacture more hardware.
Intelligent device manufacturers face growing
pressures to do more with less. Customers
simultaneously expect ever-increasing functionality
delivered in a lower cost product that consumes
less power, space and administrative costs, and
they expect to pay for only the capabilities they
need when they need them.
Faced with these challenges, leading-edge
intelligent device manufacturers are adopting
strategies to separate the hardware from the
capability and capacity, and offer virtual
appliances to stay competitive. These strategies
help intelligent device manufacturers to:
• Allow customers to use commercial off the
shelf hardware making device capabilities
available as pure software
• Enable cross-/up-sell revenues by delivering
capabilities as software add-ons or on a
trial basis
• Allow service providers to dial up/down
capacity on-demand without deploying
hardware, eliminating unused hardware
• Consolidate many capabilities into a
single device “Device as a service”
Virtual Appliances Are Changing
Intelligent Device Manufacturing
Virtual appliances are pre-built software solutions,
comprised of one or more virtual machines that
are packaged, updated and maintained as a unit.
Unlike a traditional hardware appliance, these
software appliances let customers easily acquire,
deploy and manage pre-integrated solution stacks
that can be deployed behind the firewall in a
private or public cloud. This speeds up time-
to-value and simplifies software development,
distribution and management.
Virtual appliances enable intelligent device
manufacturers to expand, reach and enter new
markets, provide customers with more scalable
solutions, decrease time to market and reduce the
expenses of procuring and shipping hardware.
Software Monetization Solutions for Building
Virtual Appliances
To develop a virtual appliance and realize
the benefits they provide, intelligent device
manufacturers need to deploy the right embedded
software licensing and entitlement management
solution to support virtual appliances.
Flexera Software’s FlexNet®
Producer Suite
for Intelligent Device Manufacturers, a proven
software monetization solution used by
thousands of customers, provides both the
software licensing and back-office entitlement
management capabilities intelligent device
manufacturers need to successfully create and
deploy virtual appliances.
FlexNet Licensing – Flexible Software Licensing
for Virtual Appliances
• Protect and monetize your intellectual
property deployed on virtual appliances
• Automate capacity and capability
provisioning and de-provisioning
• Enable field-upgrade of capacity and
capabilities for virtual appliances
• Report deployment of virtual appliances to
your entitlement management system
“Virtual appliances,
paired with market-
leading protection
from Flexera Software,
help ensure that we’re
meeting the needs of
our customers while
accelerating our
ability to showcase
the capabilities of our
solution in evaluations
and proof-of-concept
deployments.”
Michael Maloof, CTO
– TriGeo Network
Security

2. Licensing
FlexNet®
Licensing empowers application producers to combat
software piracy and increase revenues by easily enabling new
pricing, packaging and software licensing models. It supports
the full software licensing spectrum, from strict enforcement to
usage-based trust but verify and enables software protection,
monetization and compliance of on-premises, SaaS, cloud,
virtualized and embedded applications. FlexNet Licensing
is based on market leading FlexNet®
Publisher and FlexNet®
Embedded, used by over 3,000 application producers in over
20,000 applications.
FlexNet Usage Capture allows intelligent device manufacturers
to support usage-based trust-but-verify software licensing and
compliance models, capture any type of usage in mostly free-form
format and enable support for the full software licensing spectrum.
Available with FlexNet Embedded only.
FlexNet Cloud Licensing Service simplifies the enterprise
experience by enabling software license enforcement and
usage-based licensing for both on-premises and cloud-based
applications in a managed environment hosted by Flexera
Software. Available with FlexNet Embedded only.
Entitlement Management
FlexNet Operations gives intelligent device manufacturers the
power to manage software licenses and entitlements easily and
efficiently. It automates the generation, fulfillment and activation
of devices, software and entitlements to provide a consistent
experience. It offers a holistic, 24x7, self-service Web portal for
manufacturers, customers and channel partners. AvailableCloud
or On-Premises.
FlexNet License Lifecycle Management
Enables intelligent devices manufacturers to cut operational
costs by automating the generation, fulfillment and activation
of software licenses and entitlements. Available with FlexNet
Operations
Cloud or On-Premises.
FlexNet Advanced Organization Management
Gives intelligent device manufacturers the ability to manage and
track software entitlements across the entire organization and
channel partners. Available with FlexNet Operations On-Premises
only.
FlexNet Usage Management gives intelligent device manufacturers
the ability and flexibility to support usage-based trust-but-verify
software licensing and compliance models, provide visibility into
actual usage, support compliance initiatives and export usage
data. Available with FlexNet Operations Cloud only.
Electronic Software Delivery
FlexNet Electronic Software Delivery gives intelligent device
manufacturers the power to electronically deliver software to their
customers devices. Available with FlexNet Operations Cloud
only.
Software/Firmware Updating
FlexNet Connect keeps costs down by connecting manufacturers
to users. It electronically delivers applications, updates and
messages directly to devices while at the same time providing
deep customer insight into the install base. Available Cloud or
On-Premises.
FlexNet Enterprise Update Management enables enterprise IT
administrators to control update distribution to business units
and locations.
FlexNet Instrumentation Management provides direct access
and insight to anonymized data to proactively resolve
customer issues.

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FlexNet Operations – Powerful Entitlement Management for
Virtual Appliances
• Automate virtual appliance capacity and capability
provisioning and de-provisioning
• Automate cross-/up-selling of virtual appliance capabilities
• Compare virtual appliance capacity and capabilities owned
versus deployed by an end customer
About Flexera Software
Flexera Software helps application producers and enterprises
increase application usage and the value they derive from their
software. Our next-generation software licensing, compliance and
installation solutions are essential to ensure continuous licensing
compliance, optimized software investments and to future-proof
businesses against the risks and costs of constantly changing
technology. Over 80,000 customers turn to Flexera Software as
a trusted and neutral source for the knowledge and expertise we
have gained as the marketplace leader for over 25 years and for
the automation and intelligence designed into our products. For
more information, please go to:
www.flexerasoftware.com