Solutions for the CFO

As a CFO you will be faced with many challenges and we can help to significantly reduce those that fall within your responsibilities for reducing operational costs, the costs of IT procurement and the securing of additional sales through prevention and better marketing.

• Tracking your product revenue cycles
• Recognizing revenue correctly
• Meeting regulatory requirements
• Reducing costs and credit risks
• Leveraging your IT investment to improve the flow of sales and financial information

By offering an affordable, low maintenance software licensing system for protecting, selling and tracking your products, Nalpeiron can help you meet these challenges.

You may be one of those highly efficient managers that has the ability to split out the time and costs associated with support and service calls that relate to problems with your copy protection and licensing solution, if so, you will be aware of the significant overhead the use of anti piracy measures can have on your business.

Save lost profits – The opportunity to improve the financial strength of your business using licensing technology is compelling both in terms of prevention and expansion.

It is clear from the surveys of the Business Software Alliance that thirty-six percent of the world's software is pirated. Plus your end users are demanding new and more flexible ways to buy from you. Using licensing and anti-piracy solutions in both cases presents you with an opportunity for increased profits.

In addition to the general opportunity, Nalpeiron present you with additional ways to benefit using our pat pending technologies that are focussed on reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and improving the End User experience when using licensing solutions.

Supporting Timely Revenue Recognition - The electronic activation of software via digital licensing proves ‘delivery’ to end users and provides timely empirical data to support the recognition of revenue according to established accounting policies.

Using Nalpeiron Licensing Service™ you will save up to 67% of the TCO of comparative Digital solutions and 30% plus of hardware copy protection solutions:

• Lower implementation costs than other solutions
• Lower license costs for both hardware and software
• Royalty free model
• Much lower customer service, technical support and operational costs
• Increased sales, above the expectations of other solutions, as our pat pending prevent scams and other lost revenues the competition cannot prevent
• Reduced risk of bad pr, and the associated lost revenues
• Supports Timely Revenue Recognition

Finance FAQs:

How can we assist with the problem of fiscal accountability

In general, adding copy-protection capabilities to an application can directly affect a developer organization's bottom-line -meaning revenues will /should increase significantly due to prevention of piracy and/or from the avoidance of negligence of end-users, who copy applications but are slow to pay for them.

On the downside, there are costs to be borne from adding anti-piracy solutions such as increased operational expenses due to increased Support calls or increased infrastructure burden. There are, of course, the added costs of purchasing a licensing solution --some copy-protection vendors charge an excessively large percentage of developer revenue (or royalty) for the licensing technology. There are also the intangible costs of lost business due to frustrated users turning away from products that have poorly implemented licensing mechanisms.

What Nalpeiron offer is the best solution on the market for piracy prevention, at a very low cost of purchase, with minimal engineering and support requirements. The incredible value that Nalpeiron products afford a developer organization do not come at the expense of customer well being -Nalpeiron's products are designed with end-user considerations paramount.

What is the quantifiable value proposition of our offering, ROI, Payback period, TCO

The detailed answer to this is different for every software developer but, in general, a company that implements Nalpeiron's software or USB FLASH dongle solutions can expect to see close to: the MAXIMUM possible revenue increase at the LOWEST possible support (and implementation) cost with the HIGHEST possible end-user satisfaction.

Can we prove that an investment in us will be sound

The base technology and the Company have been in existence for more than 20 years. The products are mature, are ultra-reliable with 5 patents pending. The company has 1000 customers is sound and well-funded, but of course, like many other Silicon Valley companies we offer various levels of investment protection, such as escrow options.

Calculating a ‘Return on Investment’ (ROI)

Many developers and Software Publishers will need to justify their investment in Copy Protection Technology and as we have seen it can be a very expensive mistake to pick the wrong solution.

Before you decide to go ahead and protect your Software, you should spend time calculating the costs of buying, implementing, servicing and supporting your chosen solution.

We found it useful to work with an estimated loss rate of 30% of total product sales over three year based on BSA figures, this should then be compared to your investment in Copy Protection over the same period. You can then work out how long it will take for this Investment to be re-paid against your potential losses due to Piracy. This should be done for each product you sell.

Remember Implementation and Support are where the real costs are and you need to choose the lowest cost solution in this regard i.e. one that has very low support and implementation costs. Also remember that if you choose a dongle or activation service you need to factor in these costs per product and compare them to paying staff to answer phones and give out codes manually.