Flexible Licensing

Rent or buy. Ours or yours. It’s all up to you.

 
CloudOne is the first in the world to offer every style of software license – perpetual, term, token and now Software-as-a-Service – freely mixable with what you already own for the ultimate in savings and flexibility.

When it comes time to figure out how many licenses of software you need for your development team, it might be comforting to know that everyone else guesses, just like you.

The reason is this: there is a mismatch between how procurement works at most organizations, and the reality of development cycles. You see, when we start a new project or spin up a new team, procurement asks us to set a budget and allocate funding for the software resources up-front, as if all are in use every day throughout a project.

But that’s not how development works: there is a cycle that slowly builds from the start to a peak at the middle of a project, only to slowly fade as the software cycle completes. In fact, this wave of activity applies to all the roles in development individually: from architects, to coders to testers, such that there is almost never a constant amount of usage of any tool.

So, like a stopped clock that’s right twice a day, your guess might only be right twice: once on the run-up of a project, and once on the run-down.

That’s why CloudOne and IBM created flexible licensing: the ability to mesh different styles of licenses together into a single pool to maximize your budget and minimize waste and compliance issues.

For example, you may not be ready to buy a new tool just yet, but would like to ease your team slowly into adoption. Software-as-a-Service (or “rental”) licenses might be ideal for this purpose, as you pay only for what you use as you use them each month. Then, once you’ve established a pattern of consistent use, you might choose to “lock in” your savings by buying perpetual licenses for users who login every day.

As another example, let’s say you already own some licenses for a tool, but are worried you don’t have enough. CloudOne can populate a cloud-based license server with your own licenses, and then on-demand augment them with Software-as-a-Service or Term licenses to deal with a peak in a development cycle, thus saving you from “shelfware” and making sure you have everything you need, just as you need it.

We can even consolidate all of your existing licenses into a cloud-based centralized pool, so you can gain reuse across your entire organization (an offering we call our CloudOne License Locker).

Perpetual, Term, Token or SaaS: CloudOne is the only place to get any or all of them in any combination, and that’s truly flexible licensing.

Key Benefits

• No compliance problems or shelfware: just licensing that matches your needs in real-time
• No guessing as to how many you need: let CloudOne manage your existing pool and show you how to save money
• Perfect for outsourced or contractor usage: never worry again about who’s license is in use

 

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