Reprise License Manager

Pros: The flexibility and scope of coverage - we can licence severs, dongles, linux, OS/X, PCs. Technical support is very good, you quickly get through to expert help in resolving issues. We were able tin integrate our legacy dongles into the product, ensuring a smooth transition.

Cons: Nothing really. Licensing is quite complex, so you have to think through your strategy clearly. The only issue has been that a couple of corporate clients have trouble understanding that there's more than one server licensing product, and they have to install the admin components.

Overall: We have a niche geoscience software product used mainly in the oil and gas industry. We've been a client for over nine years. Recommended.

Pros: The Reprise License Manager is a flexible licensing system with all the features you will ever need. We have been using RLM for about 5 years now and our customer base is very happy with the functionality.

It is easy to install and use. Plus Reprise have excellent backup support for both software vendors and end user system administrators.

Cons: I find the software the perfect solution for our needs and have found no disadvantages with using RLM.

Overall: The best licensing solution for any software. It is easy to integrate and very user friendly

Pros: Although i did not have any experience with licensing system before, their support team was stellar in helping me getting started quickly. So far i am happy with it.

Cons: At the beginning it could be very daunting to understand it, but if you go through their documentation patiently and ask the right questions to the support team, you should be fine.

Overall: Overall i would recommend this product to anyone looking for licensing system solution.

Pros: We had no issues with this product. All features are there, excellent support and continuous development.

Cons: There are a lot of options (which is good) but defining and implementing an optimal strategy takes some time.

Overall: Highly recommended. Top product affordable also for smaller companies.

Pros: Had all of the features we expected, but was a bit more modern (web administration, etc). Administration is comfortably similar to FlexLM.

Cons: Nothing in particular. It has everything we've ever thought of needing.

Overall: We were FLEXlm customers for 15 years, but after a while we felt like we weren't getting much in the way of meaningful features - and the price just kept going up and up. We discovered that RLM was developed by the same people that had originally been involved with FLEXlm and it all felt very familiar to us. Pricing seemed much more fair.

Pros: Affordable, easy-to-use licensing product with great support for small software vendors.
Product is well-maintained, with lots of new innovations based on customer feedback.

Cons: The only issue we ever had with our customers was that initially, many license administrators thought that there was only one license manager product available for engineering software, and they couldn't understand that we were using a new product that worked just as well.

Overall: We have used the Reprise License Manager to license thermal analysis software for the past ten years. We are very happy with the cost, performance and service of RLM in supporting all of our customers' usage scenarios.

Pros: Breadth of platform coverage. Extensive licensing capabilities. Cost effective.

Cons: Took some work to get integrated, but well worth it.

Overall: We've been very pleased with Reprise it replaced a much more expensive licensing system and does even more.

Pros: Free trial
Good documentation
Easy to setup and maintain
Good customer support

Cons: Nothing really, we had only positive experience with Reprise

Overall: We've been using Reprise Licensing for our product for more than 8 years now, had no problems at all.

Pros: 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.

Cons: 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.

Overall: Integration was relatively straight forward and on the whole definitely less effort than rolling your own solution. Costs overall put it slightly in favour on the build vs buy decision. It is not inexpensive but in most cases will cost less than your own solution unless you need something extremely basic.

Professional and responsive company to deal with which is critically important when licensing is definitely on the critical path in most cases.

Pros: It's very easy to get up to speed with RLM. RLM supports multiple platforms. RLM pricing is a good bit lower than Flexera whereas the features appear to be equivalent. Support is great, very responsive to my questions.

Cons: The supplied libraries and their API don't make it very easy to troubleshoot when a license isn't found. A lot of manual work is required in the front end software to present the end user with useful details.

Overall: We are using RLM to enforce purchased licenses for our EDA software, both for evaluation/trial licenses as well as for yearly/perpetual licenses.
If you're familiar with Flexera/flexLM this is a great lower cost alternative without sacrificing any functionality.

Pros: 1. It was very easy to get up & running (though we went a step or two further and built a nice C++ wrapper on it -- you certainly don't need to do that if you don't want to).
2. Whenever we need support, Reprise is quick & prompt with the help (usually situations involving odd customer networking setups when they're trying to use a floating license server).
3. Perhaps most important, we've found RLM to be of the category of 'fire and forget'. We implemented it in our software, verified it, and have had to do almost nothing since to keep it up & running. Every so often we'll upgrade to a newer version, which means compiling some binaries and putting them in the proper place so our in-house licensing system (which sits on top of RLM) can do its thing, but that's basically a couple of hours of work We upgrade to the latest version every couple of years, so this is pretty minimal.

Perhaps most important, we've found RLM to be of the category of 'fire and forget'. We implemented it in our software, verified it, and have had to do almost nothing since to keep it up & running. Every so often we'll upgrade to a newer version, which means compiling some binaries and putting them in the proper place so our in-house licensing system (which sits on top of RLM) can do its thing, but that's basically a couple of hours of work We upgrade to the latest version every couple of years, so this is pretty minimal.

Cons: I can honestly say I don't have any complaints about RLM.

Overall: Overall we've been very happy with RLM. A small time investment to get working combined with almost no investment to keep running makes it a great technology.

Pros: Straightforward and easy to integrate and deploy in an application
Customer Support is knowledgeable, responsive, and prompt
Feature-rich
Supports C++ APIs

Cons: Initial compilation of the RLM library is a bit of a hassle, but not terribly so

Overall: Overall my interactions with Reprise have been pleasant and the RLM software is secure and easy to use, both for us and our customers. We've been using it for a long while with very few complaints.

Pros: This software library is very fast and easy to implement to handle both your node-locked and network licensing needs. Everything you could possibly want from a software licensing tool is included with Reprise!

Cons: To be completely honest, the pricing being based on the income of the company using the product is something we are not a giant fan of.

Overall: Overall, the RLM licensing SDK is an excellent solution for any company that is developing desktop software that needs both node-locked and network licensing solutions. Every possibility for managing your customer's software modules is possible, and eliminates needing to think through all the various scenarios of network licensing which was our main goal!