Sentinel Cloud Services

Sentinel Cloud Services is focused on providers SaaS and allows you to quickly and easily create a universal directory service, authorize and provide the user with access, measure the volume of services consumed, quickly adapt the services offered, taking advantage of new and emerging market opportunities. Sentinel Cloud Services helps publishers software pack, deliver, and manage any cloud applications shipped for PCs, laptops, mobile devices, or other devices.

2021

Sentinel for Software Monetization

According to November 2021, the Sentinel family of innovative software monetization solutions is designed to meet the most specific and individual requirements for organizing the licensing process, controlling licenses and managing licenses that are imposed by companies of any size, with any technical requirements with any organizational structure. Thales solutions allow software publishers to focus on all aspects of the software monetization lifecycle, from software packaging, software delivery, and product catalog management to copying, intellectual property protection, and user experience optimization.

Features

As of November 2021, Sentinel Cloud Services:

• defines a service catalog, its pricing models by functional level, to increase product versatility and business flexibility
• provides a service quality agreement to immediately improve operational efficiency and minimize employee errors
• controls user authorization to enforce maintenance agreements and prevent unintentional or malicious use
• Measure customer activity for business intelligence and billing support to simplify communication and improve strategic decision-making
• adapts service offerings and on-the-fly pricing models without the involvement of engineering services, instantly responding to changing market needs

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Additions

As of November 2021, Sentinel Cloud Services supports applications installed on customer computers. This improvement will enable software publishers to apply cloud-based, user-centric licensing, management, and reporting technologies for the first time to monetize software installed on customer computers, as well as software with a hybrid delivery model.

This technological innovation will allow software publishers to review their business models and gain the fullest understanding of how products are used to offer better service to end users and reduce costs.

Monetization Cloud

According to information as of November 2021, the introduction of the Sentinel cloud approach to monetize all software products, regardless of whether they are delivered as a service, or installed directly on customer computers, will allow software publishers to achieve the following benefits:

• Pay-as-you-use pricing model support - The introduction of pay-as-you-go business models will allow you to enter new markets and remain competitive when selling cloud applications and traditional applications installed on customer computers.
• Licensing of users, not hardware - linking licenses and rights to users, not to hardware, enables higher mobility of end users, which ultimately improves user experience.
• Control Capabilities - Remote real-time license control helps optimize support services, accelerate marketing initiatives, and boost sales.
• Analytical capabilities - The availability of detailed information on the nature of use ON both at the level of individual functions and at the level of the entire product allows you to adjust and optimize decision-making processes regarding product development and business conduct.
• The benefits of virtualization are the ability to deploy software in a fully virtualized environment, with no fear of duplicating or misusing the software.
• Reduce IT dependencies-Eliminating the need to install and maintain local servers to manage licenses reduces IT costs and reduces software implementation times.

2019: Transition to the Thales Sentinel brand

The Sentinel Cloud Services solution was originally developed by SafeNet, acquired in 2015 by Gemalto, which, in turn, was bought and absorbed by Thales in 2019. As a result of these transactions, products for monetizing software SafeNet began to be sold under the Thales Sentinel brand.