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Stay informed about our products including Reprise License Manager (RLM), RLM Cloud, and Activation Pro. 

 

Learn from our customer success stories, understand the intricacies of different licensing models, and keep up with our ongoing service upgrades.

Put Your License Servers in the Cloud with RLM Cloud

RLM Cloud is an easy-to-use cloud solution for hosting your customer’s license servers, 100% hosted by Reprise.

 

RLM Cloud allows you to provision and manage customers’ license servers, and install and manage their licenses, all via your browser.

 

Your customers use your current off-the-shelf RLM-based products, but without having to install the RLM license server on their premises to support floating licenses. Their RLM license server is in the cloud instead.

 

What if your customer doesn’t want his server in the cloud? No problem, because you can use any combination of RLM Cloud-based servers and on-premise servers that you wish. For example, if you have large enterprise customers who insist on on-premises servers and smaller customers who value the convenience of a cloud-based license server, then this is entirely supported by RLM and RLM Cloud.

 

RLM Cloud helps to address some of the existing issues with on-premises licensing, such as:

  • you no longer need to ask your customer for the hostid
  • no more license server set-up/maintenance required by the end customer
  • you eliminate the concern with hostid spoofing
  • virtual machine cloning is no longer an issue
  • license server rehosting is no longer an issue
  • instantly disable licenses for non-payment, or lapsed subscription
  • upgrade/downgrade licenses without special “replace” or “upgrade” licenses
  • enable secure pay-per-use payment models

 

We’ve only scratched the surface here, so if you would like to discuss how RLM Cloud can delight your customers while making support easier, please contact us.

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RLM and RLM
Activation Pro

What’s the difference?

Reprise License Manager (RLM)

Software License Manager

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

As a Software publisher, you integrate RLM into your product, and RLM keeps track at runtime of who is using the licenses of your software.

RLM can do this entirely within the client library (linked into your application), or, more commonly, your application makes a request of the RLM Lincese Server to check out a license.

The lincese server runs either on your customers network, or in the cloud if you are using our RLMCloud™ service.

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

RLM Activation Pro

Software Activation Manager

Activation Pro is
used once when your customer purchases your software in order to retrieve the license which is specific to that customer.

Software Activation’s purpose in life is to get the licenses for your product to your customers with a minimum of fuss.

Activation Pro also has a server component wich we call the activation server.

Your application contacts the activation server and supplies a short text activation key, and in exchange, the activation server returns the license which enables your product.

Generally, this is done once, right after your customer purchases your software, not every time your software is invoked.