Complex Licensing Made Easy
For software application developers who want to enforce license agreements, yet don't want to become experts designing and maintaining a complex software licensing solution, Sentinel LM offers the ideal solution. Sentinel LM became part of the SafeNet family of solutions with the merger between Rainbow Technologies and SafeNet Inc. in March 2004.

Sentinel LM provides electronic license management (ELM) for software developers looking to enforce license agreements and easily incorporate complex license models such as evaluation, feature-based, or subscription licensing.

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At an estimated worldwide piracy rate of 40% according to the Business Software Alliance, it's worth the investment to protect your application from intentional and casual misuse. Protecting your valuable intellectual property from software pirates is a primary reason for selecting a software protection application such as Sentinel LM.

Sentinel LM provides a cost effective way to receive the benefits of a secure license management system, without the need to develop and maintain a license management system yourself.

Sentinel LM contains built-in license models that are suitable for licensing stand-alone, networked, and Internet-based license management. For added security, Sentinel LM licenses can also be "locked" to a unique hardware device.

In addition, Sentinel LM in conjunction with Sentinel Express gives you the ability to securely manage licenses over the Internet. Whether you're looking to implement a simple license management model, or create more complex license models with the highest level of security, there is a Sentinel solution to meet your needs.

Sentinel LM offers many benefits:

• Enforces 100% User Registration
• Increases profitability by enabling multiple license options
• Eliminates unlicensed use of your application(s)
• Provides a broad array of license options to meet the unique needs of your users
• Eases license management and distribution
• Reduces administrative overhead
• Provides the platform for electronic software distribution

In addition to providing software protection, many application developers are turning to Sentinel LM to broaden product offerings and tailor solutions for particular clients. From securely distributing evaluation software to activating new licenses and updating deployed licenses, Sentinel LM offers the license models to support your needs.

Beyond the basic license management models, more advanced Sentinel LM models include applications such as the following:

• Creating leased or rental models
• Tying product licensing to usage metrics
• Offering new product versions based on components or suites

If you are interested in offering trail licensing, or would like the ability to deploy new licenses over the Internet then Sentinel Express can be used in conjunction with Sentinel LM to provide this functionality.

Sentinel Express is an add-on tool that supports license management for the Web. Using Sentinel Express you can track trial licenses, offer remote license activation as well as support remote license upgrades.

Implementation
Sentinel LM can be incorporated into your application through the Sentinel LM Shell or through the Sentinel LM API. The Sentinel LM Shell is ideal when time is limited or you do not have access to the source code. The Sentinel LM API provides the support you need to implement more complex license models such as capacity-based licensing. The implementation time for Sentinel LM varies depending on the nature of your particular implementation.

A Single Integration with Multiple License Options
Sentinel LM offers you the ability to integrate software protection and license management once, yet leverage the customizability of the license generator to meet your business needs, without a new integration effort. For instance, you may decide to implement Sentinel LM with your application through the LM Shell or the LM API. You can then choose to license your application with the options listed above, without modifying your code. As your business needs change you can easily choose to offer additional license types, or you may choose to offer customized packages that a specific customer requires.

End-User Activation
Sentinel LM supports multiple methods of license activation. Whether you're interested in easily converting trial or demonstration software versions to fully licensed software or interested in offering new features or functionality remotely, Sentinel LM can support your business needs. License activation can occur over the Internet, by phone, fax, and mail or through the use of hardware tokens.

Administrative Tools
To support your customers in the license management process, Sentinel LM offers administrators a convenient way to monitor software licenses and license servers. The Administration Utility within Sentinel LM provides network administrators visibility about who has licenses and how they are being used, so that they can effectively manage license deployment throughout the company.

Internationalization Support
Internationalization, also known as I18N, is the process of making a program language-independent. Sentinel LM accomplishes this by removing language-specific icons and dates, displaying numbers in a generic format and ensuring that data can be entered in multiple languages.

License Queuing
Sentinel LM's license queuing capability allows users on a network to automatically receive the application license once it is available. License queuing automatically launches the requested application when a license becomes available.

Sentinel Express
This add-on program provides full support for Internet-based electronic license management and distribution. By using Sentinel Express in conjunction with Sentinel LM, you are easily able to support demonstration, registration and purchase of licenses over the Internet.

You can easily protect and distribute your software licenses with Sentinel LM and Sentinel Express. With Sentinel LM you have a variety of pre-built license models to choose from, or create your own versions of the basic license models provided.

Some basic license models pre-built in the Sentinel LM include:

Evaluation
Allows your user to evaluate your application for programmable variables such as set time period, end date, or number of executions.

Standalone
Allows you to license per individual.

Floating Network
Allows your application to be used by a set number of people at any given time (concurrent licensing).

Feature-based
Allows you to license separate features or groups of features in your application.

Leasing/Rental
Use this to implement software rental or leasing.

Pay-Per-Use
Allows you to bill based on product usage.

Redundant/Load
Allows for fail-over support of mission-critical applications.
Balancing

Commuter
Allows you to support users who need to run your application away from the office by supporting a license checkout model.

Site License
Authorizes application use on a specific subnet.

Sentinel LM is suitable for a wide range of applications regardless of complexity and is designed to be seamlessly integrated into your application and transparent for your end users.

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