SLASCONE

Avantages

Very easy to use. License activations, deactivations, renewals are done very quickly online, without the need to update or send customer any files. Separate access for partners and resellers, who can independently manage their licenses for their own customers, is very well solved. We have a great overview of our licenses. During the first implementation, Slascone was always there to help us. As far as licensing is concerned, best decision made. The cool part is also in comparison to our previous licensing, that the licensing runs directly through our own software and we can now independently license our new products quite easily. The customer starts our software, enters the license key that we generate via Slascone and that's it. Also cool to see if customer is working with our software or not. It is also very much appreciated that from the beginning things are explained that cannot be realized, instead of just trying to sell the solution.

Inconvénients

Not until now. From what I've heard from our developers, integrating Slscone was easy. And once it's integrated, we can easily use the code for other products. Maybe the web interface for licensing could be designed in a way that you can customize it.

Avantages

I really like the web UI. It's very intuitive and easy to use (especially compared to the competition).Also the integration into C# was straight forward due to good documentation and a NuGet package that does most of the heavy lifting.

Inconvénients

The only thing that I would wish for is better access to the raw analytical data. Many things you can only see digested (in form of plots) in the WebUI (or at least I did not figure out yet how to get a more detailed export).But regardless, considering how well the Team responds to feature requests, I am sure this is just a matter of time till I can get this as well :).

Avantages

1. Simplicity of the Product, yet serves the purpose of a nice License Management Solution
2. Possibility (and SLASCONE's willingness) to customize, the way a customer needs
3. Blazing fast support across the entire hierarchy of the organization

Inconvénients

1. The License Management solution currently offers very basic ways of querying information
2. Its Analytics offerings cannot be customized much - as on date
3. Separate environments are currently not offered for testing and production

Avantages

It is a very complete system, 100% in the cloud and very effective.
It separates well the concepts of license, product, versions, distributors, customers... which allows you to adjust the platform to your needs.

Very easy to use and set up.

Inconvénients

The user interface has room for improvement ;)

Avantages

I am impressed by the SLASCONE support. The response times are remarkably short and the answers are highly competent and efficient.

One experience that I remember particularly positively is that the SLASCONE team proactively informed us about a new feature that might be of interest to us. This proactive approach gave me the impression that SLASCONE has the needs of its users in mind.

What particularly sets SLASCONE apart is its extremely solution-oriented approach and systemic thinking. For me, they are a reliable and trustworthy business partner.

Inconvénients

I have not had any negative experiences so far.

Avantages

Based on previous experience, we decided to implement a proper licensing solution from the very start of our young software product. Having limited time and resources to deal with such a non functional issue, we searched for an out of the box solution. Our requirements are still elementary (product activation, feature bits), however having concluded a relatively seamless integration, we are now confident that we can address any future requirements pretty easily.

Inconvénients

We are a small company, and currently use just a subset of SLASCONE's functionality. So far, we have not faced any constraints or restrictions. There are cheaper options out there, but not sure if they offer similar functionality.

Avantages

SLASCONE has all the features we needed, from key based licenses, user based licenses to offline licensing support. You can set up also own instance, which is a great solution if you want to keep all data under control. SLASCONE tool is easy to learn and very elastic. You can customize it to fulfill your internal processes. And also it integrates with Business Central, which is in our case quite important.

Inconvénients

We are really satisfied with the tool, so nothing particular right now.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

Consumption-based licensing
Deployment on our Azure infrastructure
24/7 Support
Reseller Portal

Inconvénients

You cannot implement floating licensing for completely offline clients.

Avantages

-Out of the box SaaS solution that scales really well-Transparent pricing-Easy Integration with Salesforce

Inconvénients

I am sure there are some, but nothing really relevant to our use case.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

Very easy to set up and integrate in our mobile app (both iOS and Android). Intuitive, role-based UI that does not require training. Out-of-the-box analytics with easy customization options.

Inconvénients

Limited features for completely offline environments.

Avantages

Die Software bietet sehr viele Möglichkeiten Produkte zu lizenzieren, zu verwalten und unterschiedliche Abrechnungsmöglichkeiten den Kunden zur Verfügung zu stellen.

Inconvénients

Ohne Onboarding ist die Software schwer zu bedienen, da es sehr viele Möglichkeiten gibt wie man die Software einsetzen könnte.

Avantages

Growing functionality
Great support
Analytics
Azure Integration
Very helpful with feature requests

Inconvénients

No billing and invoicing functionality available.

Avantages

The support by SLASCONE was perfect. The solution is easy to use and easy to implement.

Avantages

Integration in our environment was very easy.

Inconvénients

After Excel export has been added we are satisfied.