L I C E N S I N G
51 Shades of Cloud Licensing
Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings “: Robert Plant reminds us when singing about the stairway to heaven . If he had known about the term “ cloud licensing ” at that time , he might have upped that number . Cloud licensing comes in so many shades , flavors , shapes , and sizes that having only two meanings sounds appealingly unambiguous . This article introduces the most common variants and CodeMeter ’ s solutions for them . The four basic constituents are an ERP system , license management system , license containers , and the protected and licensed application . All of them can exist either on premise or in the cloud , and many other combinations and permutations are conceivable .
ERP , E-Commerce CRM Solution |
License Management |
License Storage |
Protected and Licensed Application |
Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud
Salesforce Digital River Cleverbridge Magento |
License Central Internet Edition Hosting Services License Portal |
CmCloud CmCloudLite CmActLicense for Azure and AWS |
SaaS Application Mobile Application Private Cloud |
On-Premises On-Premises On-Premises On-Premises
SAP / R3 Navision Home-grown App |
License Central Desktop Edition Home-grown App |
CmDongle CmActLicense |
Offline Device Online Device License Server |
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