IBM® Rational®
is pleased to announce plans to deliver a new Web-based license
key management service. IBM Rational will use the Intraware,
Inc. SubscribeNet service to deliver license keys for IBM Rational
products. Intraware is an industry leader in the electronic
licensing industry and offers a wide range of account management
and licensing services. The site is set to launch mid-2006 worldwide.
Highlights
of new service:
- View
entitlements
- SubscribeNet will allow you to see the list of products
to which you are entitled and the number of license keys associated
with each product. You also will be able to see how many keys
you have deployed and how many available keys remain. Additionally,
you will be able to see the names of users who have received
license keys and the hosts on which the keys are currently
installed.
- Compliance
- SubscribeNet will help you with compliance, by limiting
the number of license keys you can put into service based
upon the number of licenses purchased. For example, if you
bought 100 ClearQuest licenses, SubscribeNet will allow you
to put 100 license keys into service at one time, thus preventing
you from inadvertently deploying more keys than licenses purchased.
- Access
control - SubscribeNet gives you control over adding users
from your company to your licensing account.
- Migration
of legacy data - IBM Rational is currently working on
a strategy to migrate your purchase information from the current
systems over to the SubscribeNet system to ensure you can
transact against the historical records.
The IBM
Rational team believes customers will quickly view the new system
as a valuable tool to help them manage their software purchases
and deployments more effectively and efficiently than ever.
For the
latest information, please visit Licensing
technote #1228989
Beta customers
- please visit the subscribenet
beta site