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FLEXnet Manager CELUG Presentation. Lynn Sweetwood Vice President – Product Management April 2006. Confidentiality Notice. This is a Private Communication All material being presented here is under an NDA agreement Do not distribute beyond the terms of the NDA - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Lynn Sweetwood
Vice President – Product Management
April 2006
FLEXnet Manager
CELUG Presentation
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Confidentiality Notice
•This is a Private Communication
•All material being presented here is under an NDA agreement
•Do not distribute beyond the terms of the NDA
•These are future statements of direction. This is not a contract or an agreement.
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AGENDA
• Discussion of FLEXnet Manager roadmap– Sneak preview of FLEXnet Manager 1.9.5
• Discussion of status of SAMReport and SAMSuite
• Q & A discussion about FLEXnet Manager
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Introducing FLEXnet Manager
Centrally Manage and Track Licenses to Optimize Your Software Investment
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FLEXnet Manager Releases and Roadmap
• FNM 1.9.1 –released Dec. 15th
– Support for post-processing scripts• Scripts automatically run upon report completion
• Script support in combination with report scheduler and automatic report log rotation address majority of SAM script use cases
– License file editor• Can fully edit and distribute license files
– Bug fixes
• FNM 1.9.3 –released Feb. 28th
– Bug fixes
• FNM 1.9.5 – target release Q2, 2006– LUM/CATIA support– Bug fixes
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Product Roadmap – FNM Themes
• Value Added Business Intelligence– Feature / Product / Vendor Mapping– Bill-back report– LDAP report integration– Improved report graphics– Denial over time report– Project Planning based on past use– Ad-hoc querying– Software purchase advisor
• Real-time debug capability– True denial reporting
These themes are not tied to a specific release, but will be the areas of focus for upcoming releases
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Product Roadmap - FNM Themes
• User Experience– Improved installation experience– Improved configuration validation– More intuitive UI– Improved scalability– Faster performance
• Simplified administration– Debug log rotation– Enhanced User Roles and Permissions These themes are
not tied to a specific release, but will be the areas of focus for upcoming releases
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End User Machine
FNP 11 – The Big Picture Now Makes Sense
ENTERPRISE
PUBLISHER
[License Rights]TrustedStorage
Transfer
configID.xml [License Rights]TrustedStorage
update
For disconnected use Get a Local Activation
FLEXnet License Server
FLEXnet Manager
Activation Specification
Activation Server
Vendor Daemon
Operations Module
Activation Server
FLEXenabledApplication
FLEXnet Client
read
Activation Application
Activation Manager
Activation Application
Activation Manager
Concurrent Check-out/inServer Based License
Response
Request
Silent (embedded trial)
Request
Response
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FLEXnet Licensing Direction
Licensing API Client:• Need lighter implementation• Easier to update• “Future proofing client” synched with server• More licensing types• Greater flexibility
Licensing Server:• Standard Communication Protocols• Multi-Tiered Architecture• Coordinated Licensing Schemes• Greater throughput
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FLEXnet Manager Roadmap
Three Basic Areas –
1. Database driven – Allows:• Functional division (Roles Based Permissions)• Data access privileges• Multi-tiered reporting/consolidation/access
2. Support for new Licensing formats• Wide Area Network License control• Activations / Secure Borrowing• Usage Based Pricing
3. Reporting Enhancements• New BI embedded tool = greater graphics• Canned & Custom Reports
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SAMReport and SAMSuite Status
• SAMReport and SAMSuite version 3.6 include support for FNP 10.8.x
• Going forward, FLEXnet Manager is the Macrovision Software License Management solution
• SAM Migration credits are currently available– Migration credits will be available for a limited time
• SAMReport and SAMSuite will eventually be sunset– No specific sunset plans have been announced
– Support for SAMReport and SAMSuite will continue for at least another year
– There are no current plan to update SAMReport and SAMSuite to support FNP 11.0
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Q&A
Questions?
More information about FLEXnet Manager is available at http://
www.macrovision.com/products/flexnet_manager/
