MODUSLINK GLOBAL SOLUTIONS: ENTITLEMENT MANAGEMENT

MANAGE ACCESS RIGHTS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, CONTENT AND SERVICES FOR ALL YOUR PRODUCTS ON- PREMISES OR IN THE CLOUD

ModusLink’s Entitlement Management Solution is powered by our enterprise-class

Poetic® software. This platform, available in the cloud or on-premises, provides

software publishers, channel partners and end customers with a single,

centralized portal for the control of intellectual property.

The platform supports the full lifecycle of license and entitlement management

functions including perpetual, term and trial licenses, maintenance, support,

upgrades, usage, subscriptions and renewals.

Poetic® is highly configurable out-of-the-box to support new and existing

licensing models for products and services across multiple clients, geographies

and channels. It accommodates multiple, client-specific business rules and

system integration requirements to deliver cost-effective, self-service, low- touch

entitlement management. With Poetic®, you can speed revenue recognition

to within minutes of order placement.

It also provides the business intelligence to know what products, features and

services are deployed and supports critical business decisions impacting

revenue and client satisfaction.

Poetic® is easy to integrate with existing business processes with mature, existing

APIs. It supports multiple operating systems, browsers and database platforms

and is highly scalable and easily customized to your unique IT environment

and product lines.

No matter where you or your customers are located, this comprehensive solution

is available from a single, global provider. ModusLink’s Entitlement Management

Solution can be easily tailored to your unique business needs.

Entitlement Management Designed The Way You Want It

DO YOU NEED TO:

• Speed your quote to cash cycle?

• Support multiple license technologies and delivery methods?

• Quickly implement new licensing models?

• Support contact centers?

• Integrate new company or product acquisitions?

• Support royalty payments to 3rd party license providers?

• Support volume purchase contracts?

• Support usage reporting?

• Control access to online downloads?

Speed revenue recognition

to within minutes of order

placement and manage all

aspects of the complete,

software life cycle to create

new revenue opportunities.

WEALTH OF FEATURES IN A CENTRALIZED, GLOBAL ENTITLEMENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

License ActivationFacilitate quick and easy processes for placing your products

into service. Collect required information from users to properly

install and license products in a self-service model and allow

users to assign licenses to correct organizational units.

• Activate multiple license key generators

• Manage simple or highly complex product

configurations

• Support calls to remote or third-party key generators

• Generate license authenticity codes for partners

• Batch processing for activation, re-host, upgrades

and returns

• Manage activation validation rules such as required

products, quantities or combinations

UpgradesSimplify and automate available upgrade notifications to your

customers. Help customers run most recent versions to ease

support and maintenance, capture incremental revenue and

manage multiple product configuration changes in a

single step.

• Supports free and paid upgrade programs

• Support for complex product mapping and changes

during the upgrade process

• Extensive selection criteria allows you to target

individual companies or machines for upgrades

• Can be configured to generate and send new keys

automatically or invite users to generate them

as needed

• Define rules for upgrades

• Push critical patches

• Determine number of affected users prior

to an upgrade

Electronic Software Download ControlControl access to online resources and downloads,

ensuring that only entitled customers can access

restricted files and providing producers with a

protected method for delivering electronic data.

The solution provides:

• Entitlement-based access to downloadable files

• Out-of-the-box integration with a leading content

delivery network (CDN) provider

• Support for URL- and FTP-based downloads in

addition to CDN

• Tracking of download initiation

• Ability to limit the number of times a file is

downloaded by any one customer

Usage TrackingCollect and report on device usage. As the Internet of Things

(IoT) heats up, the ability to capture and report the data

generated by connected devices is going to be critical to

companies’ abilities to provide the additional support, billing

models and features that IoT promises.

The solution provides:

• Ability to receive usage information and associate

it with individual machines

• Connect machines to people through

registration processes

• Track usage against entitlements

• Report on usage by machine and customer

• Support for pay-as-you-use and other usage-based

business models

MODUSLINK GLOBAL SOLUTIONS: ENTITLEMENT MANAGEMENT

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