Build a successful compliance program
Use case: discover how a major EDA company instituted a formal license compliance program that protected their IP and helped their customers. Learn why getting started with SmartFlow helped make the EDA company’s compliance program a success.
Challenge
A leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software company discovered that its software was being used illegally.
The company did a pilot program with anti-piracy technology to assess the scale of the issue. They found the problem was very pervasive, with a high volume of software licenses stolen, and that other product lines were being used illegally too.
The EDA company developed models to estimate the monetary value of the illegal usage and the potential for recovery if the company embarked on a license compliance program. The results showed that the volume of piracy warranted action.
Until this time, the EDA company never had a formal compliance program. They were mindful of the sensitivities involved as some infringing organizations were customers, so they had to consider how aggressive the compliance team wanted to be about their findings. The approach was critical to the license program because there was a lot of infringement that the team did not believe was by design.
Benefit
The EDA company now receives accurate, trustworthy data on license infringements around the world. With SmartFlow’s precise telemetry data and tracking of multiple unique data fields, the company enjoys very low false positive rates, protecting their brand and their paying customers.
SmartFlow automatically analyzes and visualizes incoming usage data, delivering previously hidden insights on where, when and by whom the software is being used. It identifies machines, links them to events and matches them to organizations, improving productivity and taking the pain out of manual compliance work.
Using SmartFlow allowed the EDA company to set up a successful software compliance program that uses minimal resources to track and identify unlicensed usage, and tackle revenue recovery.
RELIABLE DATA
protects customers and brand
ACTIONABLE
insights into software usage
SUCCESSFUL
license compliance program
MORE REVENUE
from unlicensed usage events
What the company says about SmartFlow
“SmartFlow has evolved into a very advanced technology that provides us with the information we need to take action against illegal use of our software.”
TRANSFORM SOFTWARE LICENSE MISUSE INTO COMPLIANT CUSTOMERS