All
"Full Featured" Copy Protection Products Are Not Alike
Preference
#4: Customized Features Software
developers provided us with their recommendations on important characteristics
and features that you can examine to compare alternative solutions.
Three key features developers indicated are required for effective copy
protection include:
- license management;
- secure trial
licensing; and
- network license
management capabilities.
CrypKey provides customizable
EasyLicense, eTransfer, Trial Licensing and Floating License features
to ensure you can manage control over how your application looks and functions,
and stop unauthorized use of your software in a hassle-free, appealing
manner. Review the list of CrypKey customized features below and simple
questions you can ask to ensure you know what to expect and get what you
want. CrypKey
Customized Features
Our software copy
protection solutions give you control and allow you to:
- offer secure
trial licenses to allow prospects to evaluate your software;
- integrate attractive
license control options that help you minimize support without losing
control;
- easily offer
custom options to each customer;
- provide your
customers with unique features that make working with your software
easier and more appealing;
- empower your
marketing efforts with specific tools that help your prospects during
their evaluation; and
- make the process
easy to do and simple to customize the exact look and feel you want.
Individual
Features
1. License Management.
This feature provides customers with secure selected capabilities without
any intervention required by the software developer. Very few products
rival the flexibility, control and ease of use provided with CrypKey
license management features. The most common requests from developers
are:
- a way to allow
end-users to back up and restore their system; and
- a secure process
to transfer the license between systems for a single user (e.g. office
and home PC’s).
CrypKey’s
license management capabilities include the EasyLicense and eTransfer
features.
EasyLicense.
For developers that need the simplest possible form of copy protection
or have an application which runs on a particular computer only. More
info
eTransfer. Allows an end-user with a paid, authorized license to transfer
the license using any form of media (floppy, CD, USB, etc.). The end-user
assumes this is a feature of your particular application and is unaware
that it is empowered by the copy protection. More
info
2. Trial Licensing.
This feature provides the ability to give prospects a secure trial license
to evaluate their software.
With CrypKey trial
licensing, you can provide secure trial versions of your products
to prospective customers for their evaluation purposes. You want to
be able to control the way the trial works, and to make it simple
for your prospect…but also ensure that eventually they will
buy the product if they choose to continue using it. While all products
claim to allow trials, some that give you much greater control and
provide your customer with many more attractive options that will
help you sell your application(s). Others will leave you and your
customers with frustrating restrictions that might contribute to losing
sales and profits.
Questions
To Ask About Trial Licensing
3. Network License
Management. This feature enables customers to securely control multiple,
concurrent users anywhere across their networks.
CrypKey’s
“floating license” feature provides a simple and secure
process for your customers’ system administrators to permit
use of your network application by an established number of authorized
concurrent end-users, anywhere on their network. Many software copy
protection solutions do not support any type of network implementations.
Those that do are most often restricted to server-based software installations
only. More
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