The License Lifecycle: FlexNet Customer Growth

The FlexNet Operations license lifecycle is a repeating process of producer and customer activities, as depicted in the figure and described below.

FlexNet Operations License Lifecycle

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Create Products—Create product definitions that are used to generate licenses.

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Order/Entitle—Define an account’s rights to obtain licenses for your products.

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Deliver⁄Install—Deliver the application software to the customer and install that software.

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Activate—Deliver licenses to the customer.

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Return/Rehost—Manage license transfers from one user or system to another.

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Maintain/Update—Deliver software updates to the customer.

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Upsell/Renew—Renew customer licenses, or sell the customer additional product functionality.

This getting started section focuses on FlexNet Customer Growth features in the Upsell/Renew phase.