Licensing for SaaS

Are you building SaaS software?

Software as a Service, or SaaS, has in recent times become a widespread and popular model for software. In order to consider the relevance of licensing in the SaaS world (where, after all, the domain is trusted and usage can be managed), we need to look at some of the monetization challenges faced by SaaS providers: 

Business Model - Will your SaaS application be able to support your preferred business model(s)? For example, can you meter and control consumption in support of "pay-per-use" subscription models? And can you tie this all into your billing, pricing and payments systems?

Licensing - Can you easily manage and enforce customer entitlements to your service? Can you steward who gets to use what parts of the service, and how those parts are used?

Packaging - How will you offer free service trials, tiered editions, upgrade packages, special offers and ad hoc configurations? Can you cater for customer choice in a single instance / multi-tenant system without breaking the model and escalating costs? Activations - Have you created a seamless, circular process for provisioning and activation of new customers and new feature sets? That can operate in a controlled and managed way? The Software Potential cloud-based license management service from InishTech can answer these questions. It's a cost effective, versatile service that's easy to implement and easy to use. It is the licensing platform of choice for hundreds of software providers and thousands of applications. To learn more, just click on one of the buttons opposite.