Floating Licensing – Why it is still relevant
Floating licensing or concurrent licensing is a software licensing model in which an amount of licenses are shared among a larger number of authorized users or installations. Contrary to the named software licensing model, in [...]
Licensing as a Service – How did we get here?
Just as with almost every software sector, software licensing has fundamentally evolved during the last decades. What used to be a necessary non-functional component that engineering departments had to implement or integrate at some point, [...]
License Migration is easier than you think
CHALLENGE One of the greatest obstacles preventing software vendors from using a professional, modern software licensing solution is license migration, namely the conversion of existing/legacy licenses, typically offline based into online licenses. The introduction [...]
On Software License Audits
The licensing policy of the majority of (B2B) software and device vendors falls in one of the following categories: Technical (proactive) In-house licensing solution External/professional software licensing API License Audits (reactive): no technical licensing, terms [...]
Announcing SLASCONE 4.3
Our development team did it again: we are pleased to announce the general availability of SLASCONE 4.3, highlighting the following features: csv Import You can now directly upload a csv file containing customers or [...]
Announcing SLASCONE 4.2
New goodies from our development team: we are pleased to announce the general availability of SLASCONE 4.2, highlighting the following features: Tags You can now define and assign tags to customers and licenses. Although, [...]
Our german website is online
Although we are based in Berlin, we have not had a german website yet. Fortunately, this changed some days ago so you can now consume almost our entire content in german. Lizenzierung & Analytics Viel Spaß [...]
The Case of in-house Licensing Solutions
A surprisingly big number of software vendors rely on software audits instead of a real licensing solution in order to prevent over-usage. We call this the reactive approach. The majority does opt for a proactive [...]
Announcing SLASCONE 4.1
Only 2 months after the release of SLASCONE 4.0, we are pleased to announce the general availability of SLASCONE 4.1. We felt that the following features should be available as fast as possible. [...]
Announcing SLASCONE 4.0
7 months after the release of SLASCONE 3.1, we proudly announce the general availability of SLASCONE 4.0. This release's focus has been the enhancement of our analytics engine, enabling you to get even more [...]