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RLM Cloud: Licensing-as-a-Service

  • By Reprise Staff
  • April 16, 2019

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As you probably know, RLM supports virtually every type of license. This article presents an overview of RLM Cloud, our Licensing-as-a-Service offering.

 

If you support concurrent (floating) licensing, Reprise offers both conventional on-premise license servers, and license servers deployed on RLM Cloud.

 

RLM Cloud is an easy-to-use solution for hosting your product licenses on standard RLM license servers in the Cloud. It is a turnkey solution, 100% hosted by Reprise Software, Inc. and administered through your browser.

 

Your customers use your licensed products without installing RLM license servers on their own networks. Their floating licenses are in the Cloud instead.

 

Best of all, RLM supports both cloud-based and on-premise license servers from within the same version of your application without code changes. For example, you can simultaneously support large enterprise customers who insist on on-premises license servers, while smaller customers may opt for the convenience of a cloud-based license server.

 

Eliminate the Challenges of On-Premise Software Licensing

RLM Cloud solves some of the more challenging issues with on-premises license servers.

 

You no longer have to:

  • Ask your customer for the license server hostid
  • Require end customer to perform license server set-up/maintenance 
  • Worry about hostid spoofing, virtual machine cloning, and license server rehosting

 

You will be able to:

  • Disable licenses instantly for non-payment, or for lapsed subscription
  • Upgrade/downgrade licenses without special “replace” or “upgrade” licenses
  • Enable secure pay-per-use payment models using RLM report log
  • Set up automatic failover server support

 

Support for Mobile Platforms

If your software runs on a mobile platform, or you write applications in programming languages that are not directly supported, then the new RLM Web Services API with RLM Activation Pro offers further benefits:
  • Uses standard https, no firewall issues
  • Supports many additional development platforms, including iOS and Android
  • Supports many additional development languages, such as Java, Delphi, Python, etc.

 

Learn More About RLM Cloud

To talk to someone about RLM Cloud, Licensing-as-a-Service, Activation Pro, or to schedule a live demo, please contact sales@reprisesoftware.com.

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RLM and RLM
Activation Pro

What’s the difference?

Reprise License Manager (RLM)

Software License Manager

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

As a Software publisher, you integrate RLM into your product, and RLM keeps track at runtime of who is using the licenses of your software.

RLM can do this entirely within the client library (linked into your application), or, more commonly, your application makes a request of the RLM Lincese Server to check out a license.

The lincese server runs either on your customers network, or in the cloud if you are using our RLMCloud™ service.

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

RLM Activation Pro

Software Activation Manager

Activation Pro is
used once when your customer purchases your software in order to retrieve the license which is specific to that customer.

Software Activation’s purpose in life is to get the licenses for your product to your customers with a minimum of fuss.

Activation Pro also has a server component wich we call the activation server.

Your application contacts the activation server and supplies a short text activation key, and in exchange, the activation server returns the license which enables your product.

Generally, this is done once, right after your customer purchases your software, not every time your software is invoked.