Why choose the Nalpeiron Licensing Service vs. building your own licensing
| The costs and business risks of building Software License Management systems in-house are significantly under estimated according to Gartner research |
It’s often tempting as a Software ISV to consider building the non-core licensing functionality yourself when looking to control your Software assets. In many ways it appears to make sense, you are an expert in Software development and this is an important part of your product requirements. However, often many of the issues of building in-house are overlooked.
In particular the costs and business risks are under estimated according to Gartner. In our estimation any internal development project will cost $1-200,000 per year if you include all the engineering, support, licensing, server and related support costs vs. outsourcing usually at a fraction of this cost.
One of the biggest real-life issues is keeping up with the platform changes, cracks and all the related engineering slows down the rest of the business in terms of the ability to release new products and maintain a non-core software base.
Risks are inherent in any form of internal licensing development such as:
• Inability to shape internal licensing to the needs of customers/new markets/competition
• Slowing the speed to market of your products
• Paying higher costs for a non‐core activity than outsourcing
• Staff who build the system leave preventing future improvements and changes
• Greater levels of losses due to piracy
Now let’s explore the benefits of working with Nalpeiron:
• Save internal costs – outsource and save all the infrastructure and engineering costs
• Reduce operational risks – speed, staff, and project failure
• Speed time to go live with licensing project
• Adopt a proven approach tested by many
• Get a more robust and secure system
• Easily integrate with internal systems
• Use built‐in marketing tools to drive revenues
| See the "build vs. buy" discussion video |
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"Build vs. buy" (27 min)
A detailed video discussion looking at both sides of the "Build vs. buy" debate on outsourcing Software Licensing inc IDC data and ISV podcasts.
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