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Sentinel License Manager Version 8.0 with innovative licensing models, enhanced ease of use, and more rapid deployment.

2005-01-26

Version 8.0 meets customer demands with innovative licensing models, enhanced ease of use, and more rapid deployment.

January 26, 2005– Sentinel LM is a licensing management product used by software developers to protect unauthorized use of their software applications, expand business opportunities, and reduce time to market.

The new features in Sentinel LM significantly improve ease of use, license transparency and application availability while retaining a high level of security. Sentinel LM 8.0 allows software vendors to address a wider range of business models and new revenue opportunities. These augmentations help software vendors to meet customer need in dynamic and complex markets.

"As a provider of the industries most advanced predictive analysis technology, our customers expect not only the most advanced products to meet their applications, but also a licensing model that meets their business needs," said Vikas Sinha, Director of R&D at SPSS. Sentinel LM 8.0 has two the features that allow us to meet these demands in a timely and effective manner."

"We continue to improve and build upon Sentinel LM so that it always matches the actual business models that developers find to be most profitable," said Prakash Panjwani, General Manager for the Sentinel Business Unit. "The new licensing models and flexibility of Version 8.0 ensure that licensing is practically transparent to end-users and that they always have a first-class experience, particularly in Enterprise environments with centralized license management."

Sentinel LM Version 8.0 introduces a number of major new benefits that positively affect both the developer and end-user:

End users can move freely and securely between on and off-network environments without any administration intervention.

With traditional network or floating licenses, users are required to manually check out a license each time they go off-network. With the new Perpetual License option –the license remains with the user until it is checked back in or the license expires. This significantly reduces administration effort and improves the experience of users who often use licenses while logged off of the network, typically because they are traveling.

Introduction of licensing to end-users is immune from inadvertent user error

Occasionally new network license end-users will forget to check-out a license and find themselves in a situation where they are not able to use an application off-network, even though they are entitled to use it. Grace Period Licensing gives the developer the ability to use a configurable clock to program a limited “grace period” during which the application will function even when the license is not present.

License administration is made even more flexible because the number and physical location of licenses can be easily and dynamically adjusted as entitlements change due to business expansion, merger, or re-allocation of resources

License Revocation provides a simple and easy-to-use mechanism for an organization to revoke a user license. Traceability is provided so that end-user refunds can be managed securely and promptly.
License Transfer provides the ability to revoke a license at one company location and transfer that license to another location. Records management ensures that the location and configuration of each license are clear at all times.

About Sentinel LM
Sentinel LM is a comprehensive licensing product used by software developers to add licensing to their products. Known for its ease of use and ability to be rapidly integrated, Sentinel LM protects software applications against unauthorized use by providing flexible and reliable software protection technology. Sentinel LM can be used by organizations to enforce the terms of their license agreements, increase the revenue received from existing license agreements and open up new revenue streams through the use of innovative new licensing models. Sentinel LM provides organizations with a broad range of licensing structures so that they can easily integrate a solution that matches their business model.

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