Reprise License Manager

Vorteile

Hosted activation option is great for avoiding the pain of setting up your own activation service and managing uptime and other issues.

Lots of available options for local licensing, license servers, activation and other configurations.

Documentation is extensive, though so extensive that it can be a little tricky to find your way around it, usually the information is there though.

Top notch support team, extremely responsive to questions and issues.

Nachteile

No true usage based licensing system (e.g., for billing users by the hour). Possible in a way with various work around techniques but complex.

Interface in web tools is somewhat "old world" at this stage, however perfectly functional. There have been some recent updates improving this however.

Vorteile

The software works well with no noticeable glitches. If we need any fixes or changes, we find Reprise to be a good company to deal with. They have been responsive to our needs and we are planning to continue using them over the long term

Nachteile

There are no issues that Reprise hasn't dealt with in a timely manner. No complaints here

Vorteile

Allowed us to quickly implement a licensing and activation solution by leveraging activation pro for the interim until our team could invest in implementing our own activation server to host locally.

Nachteile

My role was to write the license activation, revoke, validation code in order to integrate RLM into our multiple software solutions. Additionally, I designed the product and licensing models for the client support team (who would then generate and deliver activation keys to clients).
Though documentation and sample code does exist, I found that I had to constantly switch between different documentation sets in order to find valid answers. Even in doing that, I still found it difficult to get the answers I needed, in order to determine what configuration settings we really needed to override for our company specific rlm server. Additionally, we struggled with understanding how to deal with proxy servers and what types of licensing models we really needed.
I will say that that the support team has been wonderful with answering all of our questions and helping us to get up and running quickly.

Vorteile

Wide range of features, with reasonably-priced a-la-carte offerings.

Lots of licensing options, and we ended up using a bunch of different configurations:
* Node-locked short-term demo licenses enabled anyone to try our software
* Cloud-based floating license servers was a big hit for customers with distributed offices
* Onsite licensing servers with proxy settings and failover was used by our larger and more restrictive automotive customers
* Hardware license dongles were used by our most restrictive customers, who wouldn't permit any authentication traffic

Nachteile

Node-locked protection on Linux was weaker than Windows (didn't support less easily-spoofed options like disk serial number)

Vorteile

Reprise is easy to configure and deploy. It is widely used in the industry. All of my customers have existing installations of Reprise on their license servers, so using Reprise is easy for them.

Nachteile

My code is a python code. I have to write my own C++ / DLL extensions to access Reprise. It's not hard to do. I would just like this functionality out of the box.

I would like Reprise to provide workshops on how to use the basic and advanced features. Ideally these would be free, but I would be willing to pay a moderate price for this.