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 not only during the development process but also during runtime in order to identify suspicious activity.
• Group Compliance
  • In many licensing scenarios, the installations controlled by one licensed are required to have some common attributes, such as domain name, ip range etc. When generating a heartbeat, you can now optionally log a groupid and its compliance rules. All noncompliant licenses can be easily identified in the main license view.
• Heartbeat Types
  • Heartbeats can be generated on many occasions: during a program start, a program exit, scheduled or just manually. In order to be able to distinguish between such events, you can now define custom heartbeat types and thus facilitate your analysis.
• User Invitation
  • The on-boarding of new users became much easier. A global administrator inviting, can choose the application role of the new user. The new user receives an email with the registration link.
• Webhooks
  • SLASCONE offers now webhooks for all major events. In this way you can guarantee that every time a license or a customer is created/edited, an email is sent, or an entry is created in a Microsoft Teams channel or Slack.
• Microsoft Flow Connector
  • A new Microsoft Flow connector ensures that you can easily sync your ERP/CRM system with SLASCONE. When creating or editing a customer in your master customer database, the changes are automatically propagated to SLASCONE.

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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 creation.
  • Read more about master templates.
• Customer Dashboard
  • Analytics is an integral part of SLASCONE. Until now, the product dashboard has provided an aggregated high-level overview for product managers. The new customer dashboard provides a quick and user-friendly overview about a specific customer.
• Delete and Map Objects
  • When deleting an object such as a master template, software release limitation or customer type, you can now map all affected licenses to a new object. This facilitates bulk operations.
• Search Performance
  • The search engine has be rewritten in order to address performance issues in installations hosting bigger amounts of licenses and devices.

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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 of allowed devices to 3, preventing a 4th device from using the service. In order to avoid a poor customer experience resulting from such a ‘hard-cut’, SLASCONE 2.1 introduces ‘soft’ limits with Goodwill devices. In our example, the vendor can switch from 3 to 3 + 1 (Goodwill) devices. Goodwill devices constitute a ‘yellow zone’, in which the client is under-licensed but can still use the software. SLASCONE provides a quick overview/analysis of activated Goodwill devices, enabling vendors to react e.g., by issuing a warning after the activation of a Goodwill device or by emailing affected customers.
  • Upgrade Compliance: Until now, vendors were able to set an expiration date to prevent a perpetual usage of the software. However there are cases in which the customer is allowed to perpetually use software Version X, but not Version X+1. In order to address such scenarios, SLASCONE 2.1 licenses carry an optional maximum software release information, which indicates the latest purchased version. Once an installation is upgraded to a not purchased version, SLASCONE returns a corresponding warning/error.
  • Heartbeat Frequency and Freeride Period: These fields can be now set in the license template, regulating not only how often the devices communicate with SLASCONE, but an additional tolerance (freeride) period, in case of a failed heartbeat.
• Analytics
  • Analytical Heartbeats: Analytical heartbeats is an optional feature, providing an elegant way to collect client data, that do not necessarily affect the licensing process. Analytical heartbeats can be used to collect any kind of data such as temperature, CPU Utilization, session metrics etc.
  • AVG/Median for numerical limitations: Limitations are numerical fields used as application restriction, e.g., number of maximum users. SLASCONE 2.1 adds to the existing distribution chart, the average and median limitation information, providing quick insights that can facilitate product management decisions.
  • Customer Type: SLASCONE 2.1 allows the definition of customer types, such as enterprise, prospect, internal/test, reseller. This classification is crucial for analytical purposes, since for example you normally want to exclude internal/test licenses from your base data.
• Application Roles: SLASCONE 2.1 introduces 4  new application roles:
  • Global Administrator: Access to everything.
  • Service Administrator: Access to everything, except User Administration.
  • License Creator: Can add/edit customers and licenses. Cannot change product definitions or product templates.
  • Viewer: Can view license and product analytics (dashboard).

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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 (device independent) optimized user navigation and overall experience.

This releases unleashes the power of SLASCONE to product managers and sales representatives.

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