On License Compliance
Revenue leakage resulting from non-compliant behavior is a vendor's nightmare. However, in most cases this is not due to evil customers (licensees), but due to process intransparency: The vendor's licensing policy changed, while the customer is not aware/informed. The number of users/devices increased, but the licensing data has not been updated (deliberately or not). The [...]
Announcing SLASCONE 3.1
Our development team did it again! We proudly announce the general availability of SLASCONE 3.1, with the following highlights: Warnings Logbook - Failed Activations The API provides an extensive error handling framework. An activation or a heartbeat might fail for several reasons, such as expired license, no available tokens etc. These events can be helpful [...]
Announcing SLASCONE 3.0
We proudly announce the general availability of SLASCONE 3.0, with the following highlights: Master Templates A real game-changer feature, that influences the entire license lifecycle. Master templates provide enormous flexibility in terms of license creation. This is based on the notion of adjustable properties, which controls if a feature value can be overridden during license [...]
Announcing SLASCONE 2.1
We proudly announce the general availability of SLASCONE 2.1, with the following highlights: Licensing Core Goodwill Devices: SLASCONE allows you to control the number of devices (physical installations) allowed by a license. Let’s assume a video or music streaming service, whose vendor wants to avoid shared accounts. With SLASCONE the vendor can set the number [...]
Software Usage Analytics Session
Our CEO Ilias is going to share his insights about Software Usage Analytics at the annual OOP conference in Munich #OOPmuc. Despite the wide spread adoption of BI and analytics in almost every department of organizations, software products are still being mainly driven by various interests and gut feelings of its several stakeholders rather by [...]
Migrating from Legacy Licensing Solutions
One of the greatest obstacles for software vendors considering a professional licensing solutions is the migration from existing/legacy solutions. The introduction overhead of a new system might affect not only the software vendor himself, but also (and more importantly) the existing customer base. The biggest concern in most cases is having to provide new license [...]
We are a Microsoft Silver Partner
Our Azure Cloud-based Licensing as a Service Solution achieves the Microsoft ISV Silver Partner status. SLASCONE's partnership underscores its deep integration into the Microsoft Azure Cloud and its commitment to further advance its strategic partnership with Microsoft for growth through the Azure Cloud.
Successful Day at Microsoft’s AzureStack Hackathon 2018
SLASCONE is proud to be the very first online licensing solution running on Microsoft Azure Stack. After a challenging day at Microsoft's AzureStack Hackathon in Munich, guided by Microsoft Cloud Solution Architects and our development partner white duck, we made it! Thank you! Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud computing software solution developed by Microsoft [...]
SLASCONE Editions
Licensing requirements can substantially vary among software solutions. It is not uncommon to find complex software solutions with just basic licensing requirements or fairly straightforward software solutions with complex licensing requirements. In order to address a wider solution spectrum and particularly software solutions with basic licensing requirements, SLASCONE introduces a new edition model. The (new) [...]
Announcing SLASCONE 2.0: Heartbeats and brand new UI
We proudly announce the general availability of SLASCONE 2.0, with the following highlights: Heartbeats: enable the collection of real-time data such as Software Version, Location (based on the client's IP) and Operating System. Product Dashboard: consolidated view of a product's key metrics, filtered by license properties such as activation status. Brand new UI design: provides [...]