Alternative to LicenseSpring
Revenera Software and IoT Monetization
Take products to market fast, unlock the value of your IP, and accelerate revenue growth with the Revenera's market-leading software monetization technology.
Why Revenera vs. LicenseSpring?
A Great Technology Business Needs Great Processes
According to Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ Study of Revenera, the flexible monetization platform delivered a 426% ROI over three years, with accelerated time-to-market, improved compliance, and streamlined operations cited as factors.
Widely considered as the gold standard for software licensing and entitlement management across SaaS, Intelligent Devices, and On-Premises applications, the award-winning technology allows you to:
- Implement the broadest range of monetization models, including Elastic Access for consumption-based strategies.
- Manage renewals, identify churn risk, and discover upsell and cross-sell opportunities with Monetization Analytics.
- Automate notifications to inform account teams when specified criteria are met, or entitlements are due to expire.
- Sync real-time updates across business and quote-to-cash systems to enhance compliance and revenue recognition.
- Manage pricing, packaging, devices, and software delivery from a centralized system with full control over updates.
Key stats from Forrester's Total Economic Impact™ Study of Revenera:
426%
ROI over three years
90%
faster time-to-market
<6
months payback period

See the Results Revenera Delivers
Read Forrester's new Total Economic Impact™ Study to see how four customers achieved a combined 426% ROI by implementing Revenera's flexible, scalable, and reliable monetization platform.
FLEXIBLE MONETIZATION SERVICES

ADVANCED SOFTWARE LICENSING TECHNOLOGY
Dynamic Monetization
Dynamic Monetization is an API-driven cloud service that allows technology companies to introduce flexible monetization models for connected software and devices. The first supported model is Elastic Access, a unique, out-of-the-box approach that allows producers to:
- Make rapid price and packaging changes with adjustable Rate Tables
- Improve user experiences with streamlined procurement to avoid project delays
- Optimize costs for customers, as pricing aligns with value and real-time usage data ensures exact charging
- Lower barriers to entry for small and mid-size enterprises, with the ability to try new products before subscribing
- Gain actionable insights with detailed usage reports to identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
FlexNet Embedded
Benefit from Revenera’s flexible software licensing solutions with support for all platforms and monetization models. FlexNet Embedded is a small footprint SDK that works with software applications – on-premises, cloud, virtualized or mobile – as well as with embedded software on devices.
- Implement all modern monetization models out-of-the-box for packaged, embedded and cloud software.
- Provide in-product and volume license activation support.
- Protect software with tamper-resistant application technology (code obfuscation and sophisticated identification of unauthorized use).
- Broad platform support for a wide range of operating systems, including embedded and mobile.
- Detect virtual machine cloning and manage compliance according to your policies.
- Detect if your applications are running in Docker containers, and support concurrent and consumption-based licensing models in container environments.
Cloud Monetization API
The Cloud Monetization API provides access to FlexNet Embedded capabilities in use cases where an SDK is not the preferred implementation:
- Small-footprint IoT devices that can’t accommodate an SDK and already use JSON/REST for other functions
- Security requirements that restrict the use of third-party software on a device
- SaaS implementations where the underlying hardware is trusted and on-device security is not required
- Quick deployment implementations prior to migrating to FlexNet Embedded SDKs with trusted storage
- Situations requiring control on cryptographic libraries for regulatory reasons, such as FIPS compliance.
For these implementations, the Cloud Monetization API provides a standard web services framework to connect your application to FlexNet Operations.
FlexNet Publisher
FlexNet Publisher (formerly FlexLM) is the de facto standard in software licensing solutions, used by thousands of publishers to license and protect their applications. It supports a variety of software monetization models, captures usage, and offers advanced protection like tamper-resistance.
- Manage all license models out-of-the-box, including pay-for-overage support.
- Provide efficient in-product and volume license activation support.
- Prevent unauthorized copying and piracy.
- Support flexible machine fingerprinting.
- Support a wide variety of platforms including all major operating systems and virtualization technologies.
FlexNet ID Dongle
Today’s state-of-the-art software-based licensing is the choice for most suppliers, offering more flexibility than any hardware-based approach.
However, dongles are still a solution for some use cases, providing software protection by limiting or locking software access to your system.
The FlexNet ID dongle works in conjunction with FlexNet Licensing (FlexNet Embedded or FlexNet Publisher) to enhance security as a form of hostid.
The dongle is a serialized hardware key that attaches to a parallel or USB port and is automatically supported as a valid hostid by any FlexNet Licensing-enabled application.
Broadest range of monetization models
As your SaaS and application business evolves through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, the underlying complexity of your business models will naturally increase. Revenera's out-of-the-box monetization services allow the broadest range of monetization models, giving you the agility to meet market demands without distracting your development team, who can focus on enhancing product functionality rather than back-office infrastructure such as licensing and entitlement management.
PERPETUAL

No expiration date
RULES OF ACCESS

Assign use rights and configure access to various product offerings
USER BASED ACCESS

Assigned to one or more specific users, to be used on various systems
SHARED ACCESS

Multiple users/devices within an organization sharing a pool of entitlements
SUBSCRIPTION

Term-based, with recurring payments
CONSUMPTION

Usage counted against a provisioned quantity
METERED

Fees based on actual usage
OUTCOME

Pay based on measurable customer value or outcome
Grow Your Annual Recurring Revenue
See how Advantest grows Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) with Revenera’s advanced software licensing solutions.
Revenera offered the out-of-the-box solutions and integrations we needed to support our business model. The transition from a hardware to software model was a learning process and we looked to Revenera for best practices. We’re benefiting from its experience in the industry as we continue to grow our business and do more with its software monetization platform.
Customer Success Stories
Case Study
Teradici Drives Growth Through Move to Subscription Model
Teradici began as a hardware company then shifted to a software subscription model that has driven triple digit recurring revenue growth and increased the value of the company.
Video
Honeywell Transitions from Hardware Sales to Software Monetization
See how Honeywell achieved over 100% growth in annual software revenue while accelerating time-to-market and supporting hybrid models.
Video
GE HealthCare’s Hardware to Software Transformation Journey
See how GE HealthCare moved to a software-first mindset to optimize the patient experience.
Resources
Research Report
Revenera Monetization Monitor: Software Monetization Models and Strategies
Read Revenera’s research report on trends around monetization, licensing and deployment models.
eBook
Entitlement Management vs. Billing Management & Subscription Management
Learn how your business can streamline operations, strengthen customer retention, and drive business growth by understanding how entitlement and billing management systems can work together to drive efficiency.
eBook
The Build vs. Buy Debate: A Product Manager’s Guide to Software Monetization Solutions
To build, or to buy? That’s the question technology companies typically face when evaluating solutions for software licensing, entitlement management, and compliance – and getting these factors right is essential for success. Download our guide to learn more and discover which option makes the most sense for your business.
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