Track Descriptions and Potential Topics
User Group Meeting, Monday, October 20, 2008
Join Acresso Software experts for an in-depth look at the roadmap for the future of the software industry and the part Acresso's solutions will play for both ISVs and their Enterprise customers. Both visionary and practical, the in-depth discussions that will follow will address questions specific to Acresso solutions and specific product features will also be addressed. The user group meeting is open to Acresso customer's on active maintenance plans only.
Topics will include:
For ISV
FLEXnet Operations:
- Entitlement Management
- What factors contribute to making this difficult?
- How does it affect your customers and partners?
- What are successful strategies for improving your approach to entitlement management?
- Empowering the Channel through Technology
- What are the characteristics of a system that would provide valuable data to the publisher and yet be useful to channel partners?
- What are the key challenges to managing multi-tiered channels?
- What are the strategies for improving information flow?
- How does this differ across different segments?
FLEXnet Connect & FLEXnet Delivery
- Cross product reporting - FLEXnet Connect, FLEXnet Delivery and FLEXnet Operations
- User access - multi-file downloading (FND) & end-user portal (FNC)
FLEXnet Publisher
- Will discuss the future direction of FLEXnet Publisher
For Enterprise
FLEXnet Manager
- Will discuss the future direction of FLEXnet Manager, including a demonstration of the next major release
FLEXnet Compliance Manager
- Learn more about how this new addition to Acresso Software can help you and your organization become more cost-effective, compliant and productive in areas outside of your FLEX-licensing environment
Software & Hardware Producers: Strategic Questions - Practical Answers
Potential Topics:
- Compliance and licensing - 2 strategies, one goal!
- IP Protection - Is yours at risk?
- Hardware Producers - Are you ready for Software as a Business?
- Software Compliance - Taking the guessing game out of it!
- Entitlement Management - Taking the Complexity out of the Equation
- Calling all Small and Medium ISV
- Before you start: What you need to know!
- Your Customers Ebbs and Flows - Can Your Business Weather the Storm
- Virtualization - Part of your reality?
- The evolution of licensing - what's next?
Enterprise Software Investment Optimization
Licensing terms and technologies are becoming more complex while audits and maintenance rates are on the rise. There's no better time
to see how the industry's thought leaders are addressing these licensing challenges and finding practical answers to questions like:
- Are we getting fair value from software?
- Are we buying the right number of licenses?
- How can we stay in compliance?
Potential Topics:
- Managing Software in a Virtual World
- Chargeback Policies: What works and what's overkill?
- Centralization: Key to Compliance & Asset Optimization
- Save Your SAM Program from Budget Cuts
- Negotiating Software License Disputes: Going from Impasse to Resolution in Seven Steps
Executive Partnership Thought Leadership
This executive focused track is dedicated to opening the discussions and promoting partnerships
between software and hardware producers and their enterprise customers.
Potential Topics:
- Simplifying Entitlement Management-The Impact to Producers and Enterprise Customers
- Implementing a Compliance Strategy that Positively Impacts the Customer's Experience!
- Compliance Panel Discussion - A Conversation of Trust
- Virtualization Panel Discussion - License and Revenue Models in a Virtual World
Birds of a Feather
The highly acclaimed "Bird's of a Feather" moderated discussion is always enlightened by the ideas and opinions of attendees
and panel members regarding emerging topics in the software industry.
Potential Topics:
- License Management for Hardware Manufacturers
- Licensing Challenges and Industry Experiences for the Customers Perspective
- SaaS - What's the Next Step
- Disruptive Impacts on Software Licensing
- Build vs Maintain - What Drives the Decision
- Product Pricing: The Challenge in a Multi-Core Environment
- Licensing and Compliance in a Virtualized Environment
- Software as a Service - The Next Steps
- Licensing in the Hardware Environment - One Product, Many Channels
- Electronic Software Delivery, How can you Maximize your Software Assets
- Licensing Options for the Small-Medium ISVs