Thanks to the feedback we’ve been receiving since License Activation Center’s inception, we’ve realized that our solution provides a huge advantage over developing in-house license and entitlement management software. We know many companies consider going in-house as a way to cut costs and obtain a more customized product that may better fit their needs, but we’d like to point out a few things that we hope will give vendors second thoughts.
To begin with, LAC frees vendors from the initial up-front investment, which is typically quite large for home-grown solutions. Development time can also be long depending on available resources, and then there are of course administrative and maintenance costs that surface in a short time frame. Finally, vendors need to ask what happens when their final product does not live up to expectations? What happens when requirements change? With LAC, however, such questions need not be asked, and the above-mentioned issues are simply not an issue. Because LAC is delivered as SaaS and there is no software or hardware to install, deployment time is reduced to a matter of minutes instead of several weeks or even months. This allows vendors to start benefiting from license management almost immediately and at a minimal cost. And if vendors are not happy after several months of usage, they simply do not renew their subscription (that is to say if they’re not using the free version); something that is not possible with an in-house product. Furthermore, LAC is always up-to-date with upgrades happening dynamically and transparently with no impact on IT resources. As a result, vendors and end users have access to the most current version of the software delivered with the latest innovations and features, without the headaches of manual upgrading.
License Activation Center also delivers many business benefits, making license fulfillment tasks far easier and providing cost-effective license creation, distribution, and activation. LAC allows vendors to collect and maintain valuable data such as customer contacts and history of purchases and activated licenses. With license order templates, vendors can easily set up and identify new selling opportunities for single end users or a particular category of clients (for example, small businesses versus large corporations). And thanks to an intuitive, well-planned GUI, LAC has proved to be a powerful yet straightforward tool that would normally require a much more knowledgeable expert to administrate. In order to get started, vendors need only upload one of the well-known license generators: LM-X License Manager, FlexNet or Reprise License Manager (RLM). LAC also supports proprietary license managers, therefore, vendors wanting to keep their current licensing system but looking for online license management and activation, can also take advantage of our solution. And last but not least, through LAC’s SOAP API vendors can implement full automation from license order creation, to activation, to software delivery.
For vendors having second thoughts about developing an in-house management solution, try LAC today! Contact us for more information, or check out our live online demo.
