All Windows and Macintosh application programs are
“K2/KeyServer compatible”
All programs installed throughout a site will be discovered by K2 and then be subject to K2's flexible license control, usage monitoring, and auditing control - it is not necessary for software publishers to do anything special.
K2 is not limited to metering of "concurrent use" licenses. Unlike many software license management products, K2 can be configured to actively or passively manage virtually any software license policy. This includes the option to centrally manage single computer licenses by “node-locking” to designated computers.
Standard Services
K2's standard license management features can be used with all "off-the-shelf" application programs. Thus there is no requirement for any sort of technology integration and no requirement for a partnership relationship with software publishers. Some publishers, however, have explicitly partnered with Sassafras in order to offer augmented licensing options or management options specifically for K2 managed sites.
Special Services
Software publishers can easily augment their own, built-in, anti-piracy technology so that it will defer to K2/KeyServer when their software is running under KeyServer control. Software publishers may also offer special software licensing rights when a customer is using a specific K2/KeyServer feature such as: anti-piracy security, node-locked license allocation, concurrent license limit enforcement, user authenticated access, quarterly management reports, etc.
Several publishers bundle a dedicated KeyServer with their product in order to specify and manage licensing rights with a digitally signed “license certificate”. At a site that is already managing other software licensing with K2/KeyServer, a publisher-supplied license certificate can be imported so that their single KeyServer will continue to provide a unified interface for all software license management.
K2 manages license control, utilization statistics, and deployment profiles for all application programs. A complete and unified management view is maintained for all programs stored on portable, desktop, file server, or thin client servers. A technology partnership is only required when a publisher wants to take advantage of additional custom services.
We encourage software publishers and software asset managers to work together with us in perfecting license management technologies and policies that work to the benefit of all parties. Please contact Sassafras and/or the software publisher for details and to further this collaboration. Some of our partners in this effort are listed below.
Adobehttp://www.adobe.com/
Acrobat, Creative Suite, Streamline, etc. Digital imaging, design, and document technology, etc.
Authorware, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fontographer, etc Web development, scripting, graphics, sound, etc.
Ashlarhttp://www.ashlar.com/
Graphite, Neon, Argon, Xenon, Cobalt 3D creation/publishing, drafting, engineering parametrics.
Audiofile Engineeringhttp://www.audiofile-engineering.com/
Wave Editor, Sample Manager, Spectre, etc. Professional digital audio software written exclusively for Mac OS X.
auto*des*syshttp://www.formz.com/
FormZ A hybrid solid and surface 3D modeler.
CambridgeSoft Corporationhttp://www.cambridgesoft.com/
ChemOffice, BioOffice, ChemDraw, etc. Chemical structure drawing and BioInformatics solutions.
Cedrus Corporationhttp://www.cedrus.com/
SuperLab Stimulus presentation software for Mac OS and Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
Cycling 74http://www.cycling74.com/
Max/MSP, Jitter A graphical environment for music, audio, and multimedia.
DNAStar, Inc.http://www.dnastar.com/
Lasergene, StarBlast, GenVision Sequence analysis software for life scientists.
Engineered Softwarehttp://www.engsw.com/
PowerCADD CAD software with trade-specific plug-in tools.
Final Drafthttp://www.finaldraft.com/
Final Draft Professional script writing for movie scripts, television episodes and stage plays.
FontLabhttp://www.fontlab.com/
FontLab Studio, BitFonter, TransType, etc. Typographic design, creation and editing of digital typefaces.
GeneCodeshttp://www.genecodes.com/
Sequencher Complete software solutions for DNA sequencing and analysis.
Gigawiz Ltd. Co.http://www.gigawiz.com/
Aabel Statistical analysis &data exploration and interactive scientific graphing (Universal OS X)
Kodak (1-D)http://www.kodak.com/go/1D
Kodak 1D Image analysis software for monochrome scientific images.
MacVector, Inc.http://www.macvector.com/
MacVector Sequence analysis, PCR primer analysis, protein analysis, etc.
MakeMusic! Inc.http://finalemusic.com/
Finalé Music notation software for creating, customizing and sharing printed music.
Minitab Inc.http://www.minitab.com/
MINITAB Statistical Software for Six Sigma and other quality improvement projects.
Parallel Geoscience Corporationhttp://www.parallelgeo.com/
SPW Interactive seismic data processing software.
QuantumSofthttp://www.quansoft.com/
pro Fit Engineering tool for data/function analysis, processing, and plotting.
REAL Softwarehttp://www.realbasic.com/
REALbasic Software development environment for all kinds of applications.
Red Rock Softwarehttp://www.redrocksw.com/
DeltaGraph Data charting software.
Simulation Dynamicshttp://www.simulationdynamics.com/
Supply Chain Builder A software framework for building supply chain simulations.
SolidWorkshttp://www.solidworks.com/
SolidWorks, PDMWorks 3D mechanical design software, CAD file revisions management.
Stata Corp.http://www.stata.com/
Stata An integrated statistical package for data analysis, data management, and graphics.
Textco BioSoftware Inc.http://www.textco.com/
Gene Construction Kit A DNA design, manipulation, and drawing tool.
Thomson ResearchSofthttp://www.endnote.com/
EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager Bibliographic creation and management.
TroikaTronixhttp://www.troikatronix.com/
Isadora Graphic programming environment with emphasis on real-time manipulation of digital video.
Wavefunctionhttp://www.wavefun.com/
Spartan Computational chemistry and molecular mechanics.
XO Audio LLChttp://www.xowave.com/
Spartan Digital audio production and post-production workstation.