Enterprise customers are used to consuming software through sophisticated licensing models. This expectation does not change when the same applications transform into services offered via the cloud. Therefore, in order to achieve maximum profitability, cloud service providers require the flexibility to easily and efficiently bundle their application to reach a range of unique market segments. Sentinel Cloud Services feature a flexible framework supporting a rich array of license models, enabling customers to utilize a wide variety of business controls. The services make it quick and simple for cloud service providers to create and manage service catalogs, feature bundles, and licensing models on the fly. Having the required building blocks to easily create and maintain a sophisticated service offering allows cloud service providers to grow their business and focus their valuable R&D resources on delivering core service value.

Sentinel Cloud Services enable customers to simplify provisioning and service management with contract creation, activation, and modification. The automation of service agreement provisioning allows for increased accuracy and reduced operational costs, and provides a scalable licensing solution. By connecting back office systems through a standard Web services interface, the entire lifecycle of a customer's contract can be efficiently managed and automated.

Sentinel Cloud enables service agreement compliance with feature-level control, making it easy for cloud service providers to easily maintain multiple levels of access to their service, and allowing customers to optimize how they consume the service. Additionally, feature-level authorization enables cloud service to introduce new or highly popular features at a premium to maximize market applicability and profitability.

The solution’s usage tracking and reporting features enable service providers to analyze data and identify trends in order to improve business decision-making capabilities, and instantly respond to emerging market opportunities. Sentinel Cloud Services aggregates granular usage data from all the instances of your application to drive the creation of usage records for automated rating and billing solutions to improve operations efficiency and accuracy.

End user requirements, budgets, and business objectives change daily. Service catalog flexibility, both in pricing and functionality, is required to realize emerging new business opportunities on the fly and prevent customer attrition. The unique design of Sentinel Cloud Services enables SaaS providers to instantly reconfigure feature sets and business models based on dynamic market feedback and usage data collected by the entitlement management system, allowing service providers to instantly embrace evolving market demands.

Maintaining a centralized licensing platform for both SaaS and on-premise offerings allows for increased operational efficiencies and an improved customer experience. Managing all licensing technologies (on-premise applications protected with SafeNet licensing, on-premise applications protected with homegrown licensing, and cloud-delivered services) with a single management platform provides software publishers with a consistent view of customer contracts, usage, and product consumption. Additionally, Sentinel Cloud Services enable customers to improve the end user experience by providing access to all product offerings through a single self-service portal in a consistent, professional, and user-friendly way.

Cloud applications are dependent on Internet connectivity to function and therefore can be utilized by any Web-connected device, including, but not limited to, PCs, laptops, and mobile handsets. As mobile handsets, such as smartphones, evolve, they are becoming increasingly dependent on Web access to run some of their most sought-after features and apps. This growing acceptance for Web-dependent mobile devices is lowering the barrier of entry into the mobile market for software vendors. Engineered specifically to support the catalog, licensing, and consumption management of any Web-dependent software service, Sentinel Cloud Services provides software vendors with a complete solution to provision, control, and manage usage of mobile cloud applications.