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General:
Usage-Based Pricing
Revolutionizing Software Costs
Pay-as-you-go billing is the future for the supply of software according to
Macrovision, a market leader in electronic licensing, copy protection and
digital rights management. Launching its new FLEXnet Publisher suite of
products, Macrovision is keen also to draw attention to customers already
using this flexible form of billing.
Usage-based pricing offers benefits for all parties -– users can access the
most up to date software without a huge up front cost, and the ability to
track usage accurately to individual terminals allows corporate customers to
assign software costs to individual departments or projects. Software vendors
have a persuasive selling message as various pricing structures can be
designed to suit the specific business needs of the customer. Vendors do not
incur additional development costs as the FLEXnet technology can be applied to
software packages as a post development wrapper.
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Launching publicly in February, the usage based billing module already is
in
use by some of Macrovision's largest customers, including engineering software
supplier Aveva Engineering IT, whose commercial manager, Gary Dransfield, is
"certain this is the way the market wants to move."
The Utility Pricing Module is just one component of FLEXnet Publisher,
which
also includes modules offering the most effective and flexible security,
licensing and asset management. Given the rising costs of software for users,
and the rampant piracy and unlicensed use affecting the income streams for
developers, there has never been a greater need for effective security and
innovative and dynamic billing systems.
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