Webinar
How to Drive Renewals and Reduce Churn with Monetization Analytics
Learn how to turn entitlement data into insights that boost renewals, reduce churn, and drive product profitability across your revenue teams.
Original Air Date: December 1, 2024
Overview
If you're a software producer looking to maximize recurring revenue and reduce churn, this is a must-watch webinar. Join Michael Goff, Principal Product Marketing at Revenera, along with Ravi Trivedi, Senior Product Manager, and Daniel Mboweni, Senior Solution Engineer, as they explore how to turn entitlement and usage data into actionable insights. You’ll discover how Monetization Analytics—part of FlexNet Operations Cloud—can help you uncover hidden revenue opportunities, identify churn risks early, and make smarter product decisions.
Whether you're in product management, customer success, renewals, or sales, this session shows how different personas can leverage data to drive upsell, improve customer experience, and ensure healthy ARR. Learn how to spot friction in the customer journey, use download and activation trends to guide roadmap investments, and trigger proactive outreach with conditional notifications. Packed with real-world examples and dashboards, this webinar will equip you with the tools to align your monetization strategy with customer behavior and market demand.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see how leading software companies are modernizing their quote-to-cash journey with data-driven decisions.
Recap
Key Themes and Takeaways
Turning Entitlement Data into Actionable Insights
One of the central themes of the webinar was how software producers can move beyond basic visibility into entitlements and activations to uncover deeper insights. Ravi Trivedi explained how Monetization Analytics, part of FlexNet Operations Cloud, helps identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities, renewal risks, and product usage trends that traditional systems often miss.
Empowering Revenue Teams with Persona-Based Analytics
The speakers emphasized how different personas—like Customer Success Managers (CSMs) and Product Managers—can use the same data in different ways. CSMs benefit from micro-level insights to reduce churn and improve NPS, while Product Managers use macro-level trends to guide roadmap decisions and increase product line profitability.
The Four Data Universes: A Framework for Insight
Daniel Mboweni introduced the concept of four key data universes—downloads, entitlements, fulfillments, and usage—that form the foundation of Monetization Analytics. Each universe provides a different lens into customer behavior, from intent to use to actual value realization, enabling more targeted and proactive engagement.
Real-World Use Cases from Product Management
Ravi Trivedi shared firsthand examples of how his team used download trends to retire underused platforms and invest in high-demand features. These insights helped prioritize engineering resources and shape packaging strategies, such as moving popular features into higher-tier offerings.
Using Denial Data to Drive Upsell and Cross-Sell
Denials—instances where customers attempt to access features they haven’t licensed—were highlighted as a goldmine for sales teams. The webinar showed how denial reasons can signal unmet demand, enabling reps to initiate data-driven conversations about expanding access or upgrading packages.
Conditional Notifications for Proactive Engagement
The session also covered how conditional notifications can trigger alerts or actions when certain thresholds are met—like high fulfillment or usage nearing capacity. These low-code integrations help connect entitlement data with CRM, ERP, and billing systems to automate workflows and reduce surprises.
Aligning Monetization Strategy with Customer Behavior
Throughout the webinar, the speakers reinforced the importance of aligning monetization strategy with how customers actually use software. By analyzing usage patterns, software producers can optimize packaging, improve customer experience, and ensure sustainable ARR growth.
Flexible Reporting and Self-Service Analytics
Finally, the team discussed the future of Monetization Analytics, including plans for self-service reporting and Snowflake data sharing. This flexibility ensures that every vendor—regardless of their unique reporting needs—can tailor insights to their business goals.
Speakers

Daniel Mboweni
Senior Solution Engineer
Revenera

Ravi Trivedi
Product Management, Software and Device Monetization
Revenera
Frequently Asked Questions
Entitlement data refers to the records of what software products or features a customer has purchased or has access to. By analyzing this data, software producers can identify gaps between what was bought and what is being used. This helps uncover early signs of churn risk, such as low activation or usage. Acting on these insights allows teams to proactively engage customers and improve retention.
Usage analytics reveal how customers interact with your software—what features they use, how often, and where they hit limits. If customers are frequently denied access to certain features or nearing capacity, it signals unmet demand. Sales teams can use this data to offer targeted upsell or cross-sell packages that align with actual customer behavior.
Download trends provide early indicators of customer engagement and product adoption. A decline in downloads may suggest reduced interest or friction in the customer journey, while an increase can highlight growing demand. Monitoring these trends helps product and customer success teams take timely action to support users and prevent churn.
Monetization analytics supports multiple personas including Customer Success Managers, Product Managers, Sales, Renewals, and even C-suite executives. Each role uses the data differently—CSMs focus on reducing churn, Product Managers on roadmap decisions, and Sales on identifying revenue opportunities. The platform enables tailored insights for each team’s goals.
Fulfillment data shows whether customers have activated the software or features they’re entitled to. High fulfillment suggests strong intent to use and alignment between purchase and usage. Low fulfillment may indicate onboarding issues or misalignment, prompting customer success teams to intervene and support adoption.
Conditional notifications are automated alerts triggered by specific data thresholds—like usage nearing a limit or a renewal date approaching. These notifications can be sent to internal teams or external systems like CRMs or billing platforms. They help vendors act proactively, reducing surprises and improving customer experience.
Denial data captures instances where users attempt to access features they aren’t licensed for. This data is a strong signal of interest and can be used to identify upsell or cross-sell opportunities. It also helps uncover friction points in the user experience that may need to be addressed.
Aligning monetization with actual usage ensures that pricing, packaging, and product development reflect how customers derive value. This leads to better customer satisfaction, higher retention, and more effective revenue growth. It also helps vendors make data-driven decisions about feature investment and product lifecycle management.
Product managers can analyze usage, download, and entitlement data to understand which features are most valuable to customers. This helps prioritize development efforts, retire underused capabilities, and enhance high-demand features. It also supports packaging decisions that align with customer needs and market trends.
Effective monetization analytics platforms offer out-of-the-box dashboards, self-service reporting, and integration with external systems. These capabilities allow teams to tailor insights to their specific goals, whether it’s tracking renewals, identifying churn risks, or optimizing product performance. Flexibility in reporting ensures that all stakeholders can access the data they need.
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