Zentitle Floating and Concurrent Licensing
Allowing a larger number of machines or users to use a lesser number of seats
What is floating and concurrent licensing?
Floating (concurrent) licensing lets more users share fewer seats. If you have 3 users but a 2-seat floating license, any two of them can run the application at once; the third waits until a seat frees up.
Why floating licensing matters
Most enterprise software isn’t used by everyone at the same time. Node-locked licensing forces customers to buy per-person even when peak concurrency is much lower. Floating lets them buy for peak usage, not headcount.
How Zentitle enforces floating licenses
Seat count is enforced at the licensing layer in real time.
- Pool of users shares a fixed number of seats
- New checkouts denied when the cap is reached
- Seats automatically release when users stop using the application
- Works alongside feature-based and capacity models
Who this video is for?
Product managers and commercial leaders considering a move from per-user to per-seat pricing for better customer value.
Video transcript
Auto-generated from the video and lightly edited for readability.
Many software vendors like to use what is often called a floating or concurrent use model. What a floating license is? It's kind of like exactly what it sounds like. Rather than have individual licenses in the field, often called nodelock licenses, where it's persistently tied to an identity for a given machine.
What a floating license lets you do is let's say you have three individual users, but you have a two-seat floating license. That allows any two of those users to be able to access the application at the same time. The licensing will enforce that the seat count of two never gets exceeded, And if the third customer wants to try to check out a seat, it will be denied, and they'll have to wait until a seat frees up. So what this allows a company and end customer to do is to have a larger pool of potential users of an application and only buy as many seats for their peak capacity as they might need.
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