Client: Enventive Engineering, Inc.
Problem: Lack of floating licensing scheme
Solution: LM-X License Manager

The Client

Enventive Engineering, Inc., provides state-of-the-art software that enables mechanical engineers to rapidly model, simulate, and manage the impacts of mechanical variations on product cost and quality. Enventive’s variational analysis software is best in class for travel and effort studies, and is exceptional for optimizing tolerancing for both assembly fit and product functionality.

Enventive’s customers include Fortune 500 companies in aeronautics, appliances, automotive, industrial equipment, energy, medical technology, and other industries that focus on performance, precision and reliability in their products.

The Problem

As a small startup, Enventive initially used a low-end license management product that was economical; however, it lacked the features their customers needed most: floating licenses and the ability to customize renewal dates. Floating licenses were essential for supporting the team-based way their customers used the software, and annual licenses with a customizable renewal date would allow customers to purchase additional licenses as needed while consolidating all renewals into a single, preferred date.

The leading license management software had the features they needed, but not only was it one of the most expensive solutions, it was known for its lack of attention to small businesses. Enventive needed a robust, flexible solution that would grow with them and be responsive to their needs.

The LM-X Solution

After evaluating several options, Enventive found one licensing product that outshone the others: X-Formation’s LM-X License Manager. LM-X had all features they needed, with greater flexibility and lower cost than comparable products.

Enventive was particularly impressed by the support they received from the X-Formation team during their LM-X evaluation period. Ralph Gifford, Enventive’s President and CEO, commented, “With LM-X, not only did we get all the features we needed, we got a responsiveness to requests for other features that was unbelievable. All we needed to do was mention that we’d like to see a particular feature, and the next thing we knew, X-Formation was handing us a new version of LM-X with the very features we’d asked for.”

In addition to the floating license and customizable renewal date features that Enventive had been looking for, LM-X’s borrowed and grace licensing options, which make licenses available when the user is disconnected from the network, proved popular with Enventive’s customers. “It’s of the utmost importance that your licensing solution works for your customers,” Mr. Gifford remarked. “Our customers see that we have the ability to offer these licensing options, and they are really impressed.”

Summary

LM-X’s full features, flexibility, and affordability were a winning combination for both Enventive and their customers. Equally as important for Enventive, X-Formation’s exemplary support and genuine interest in Enventive’s success and their unique needs as a small business sealed the deal. For Enventive, LM-X License Manager proved to be the perfect license management solution–and then some.