Cloud Licensing
In the cloud, protection and licensing come in many
shapes and guises:
Your user installs the software on a PC. When it is started
for the first time, he or she is asked to enter the ticket. The
software contacts CodeMeter License Central and sends
< < Software developers want to enable their users to
access local software with a license kept in the cloud.
< < Software developers supply their users with SaaS
solutions operated in the cloud. The required licenses
might be tied to a single user or a given number of
devices.
< < Software developers want their users to have a
reliable means of authentication for using their SaaS
applications.
< < Users might want to install and run software
independently on their own private clouds. the ticket and a fingerprint of the computer (in the form
Cloud Licenses for Local Applications Cloud Licenses for SaaS Applications
In this scenario, your software is a classic desktop application, You can offer your users a SaaS application with unrestricted
which you sell to your users either on a traditional CD or as or temporary licenses for different features. CodeMeter
a download. Your user receives not only the software itself, Cloud Lite offers you a simple and lean way of reconciling
but also an activation code in the form of a ticket that you the online and offline worlds, especially when you are
create with CodeMeter License Central. When creating that already using CodeMeter for on-premise software and have
ticket, you can determine how many devices the software integrated the license creation processes with your SAP,
can operate on at the same time and for how long it can Salesforce, or any other ERP, CRM or e-commerce system.
be used without a permanent connection to the Internet.
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of a WibuCmRaC file) up to the cloud. CodeMeter License
Central checks whether the ticket is valid and, if it is, creates
a temporary license for an offline cache. The license is
returned to the user (by WibuCmRaU file) and imported
locally into the CodeMeter Runtime. The ticket is also stored
locally, e.g. in the license. Your software then launches
and works perfectly without any need for a permanent
Internet connection. Shortly before the temporary license
expires in the offline cache, the application phones home to
CodeMeter License Central and renews the license.