FlexNet Publisher Visual Numerics Success Story

1. Success Story:
Visual Numerics
“The same reason why we tell our customers to buy
our software is the same reason why we’re using
Challenges: To expand Visual Numerics’ product reach beyond the current customer Flexera Software. We’re product experts in creating
base while transparently upgrading to advanced licensing technology. mathematical and statistical algorithms. Flexera
Software is an expert in licensing software.”
Solution: Upgrading from Flexera Software FLEXlm to FlexNet Publisher allowed
Visual Numerics to seamlessly explore new licensing schemes without disrupting current,
proven licensing practices.
Michael Zak
VP of Corporate Services,
Benefits: Across FlexNet Publisher allows Visual Numerics to tailor new product Visual Numerics
versions to appeal to new markets, while focusing on its core software product
development business. Visual Numeric has also seen a significant decrease in customer
support calls, dropping from 15% to single digits.
Customer Profile: Visual Numerics was founded in 1970. The company
has vast experience in building applications for portfolio optimization, predictive
modeling, data mining, bioinformatics, process improvement and scientific research.
Visual Visual Numerics to keep pace with offices, which eventually became too
Numerics software development, gain flexibility in cumbersome and expensive. Yet before
Simplifies its licensing practices, and simplify the upgrading its licensing strategy, the
the company’s own license management. company needed to ensure that the
Licensing of Its Advanced Analytics “We develop products for all types of new approach would foster continued
Software with Flexera Software FlexNet organizations worldwide, including customer trust.
and sees a significant drop in customer leading multinational corporations, large
support calls – from 15% to single digits. government laboratories and universities. Making it easier to offer customers
Visual Numerics was founded in 1970 to It’s important to us that our customers can multiple licensing options
serve the aerospace and research obtain access to our software whenever Visual Numerics found a solution in
industries, and is today one of the oldest and wherever they need it,” said Michael FlexNet Publisher. It offers increased
software companies in the United States. Zak, Vice President of Corporate Services flexibility in addition to FLEXlm’s floating
The company provides numerical and at Visual Numerics. license model, which licenses software
visual analysis solutions to help businesses, without tying it to a specific user
education and research organizations Expanded licensing is required to or computer.
develop products and quickly go to support growth
market. Since the company’s solutions “We’ve been a long time customers of By choosing FlexNet Publisher, Visual
are applicable to myriad products and Flexera Software. With Flexera Software’s Numerics could then offer its portfolio
businesses worldwide, on multiple product products we’ve been able to do what we to a larger customer base, beyond
platforms in four different software need to do to meet our customers’ needs,” organizations that could afford to
languages, Visual Numerics required a comments Zak. However, with growing purchase perpetual licenses. With FlexNet
software licensing solution flexible enough demand for its software, Visual Numerics Publisher Visual Numerics now offers,
to meet its customers’ growing demands. knew it needed to upgrade to a more for example, licenses based on a time
advanced licensing system, as FLEXlm period, as well as software trials – an
Visual Numerics is longtime Flexera was not designed to manage licenses for ideal marketing tool to reach researchers.
Software customer, previously using multiple locations. “Researchers usually don’t have a lot of
Flexera Software FLEXlm as its primary budget and want to make sure that what
licensing platform. It recently transitioned Prior to migrating to FlexNet Publisher, they have will work for them before
to Flexera Software FlexNet Publisher, Visual Numerics used a separate FLEXlm
an Flexera Software solution that allows solution for each of its two development >> Continue

2. committing to it. Because a large portion license keys can be generated quickly. The About Flexera Software
of our customers are researchers, allowing result is a reduction in the overhead of Flexera Software is the leading provider
them to try the software before they buy is managing licenses and a more simplified of strategic solutions for Application
essential,” Zak explains. approach to working with customers. Usage Management; solutions delivering
continuous compliance, optimized usage
Flexera Software FlexNet Publisher Benefiting from a simple and maximized value to application
enables operational efficiencies technology switch producers and their customers. Flexera
For Visual Numerics, the transition from In addition, the company continues to Software is trusted by more than
FLEXlm to FlexNet Publisher was simple, pursue other license capabilities with 80,000 customers that depend on our
requiring only a set of new of binaries to FlexNet Publisher. “We’re having some comprehensive solutions- from installation
be incorporated while developing new conversations on how we can get our and licensing, entitlement and compliance
products. Customers have been supportive products out to more customers. FlexNet management to application readiness
of the new technology. Publisher is helping us explore new and enterprise license optimization - to
possibilities because we can now create strategically manage application usage
“This is how we want to view our license more flexible licenses,” says Zak. and achieve breakthrough results realized
management strategy. We want to make it only through the systems-level approach
as seamless as possible for our customers All of which affords Visual Numerics we provide. For more information, please
to use our product,” says Ed Stewart, IMSL more time to focus on its core business of go to: www.flexerasoftware.com
Numerical Libraries Product Manager software development. “The same reason
for Visual Numerics. “Over the years, why we tell our customers to buy our
the percentage of time that we spent on software is the same reason why we’re
license support calls has dropped from 15 using Flexera Software,” he concludes.
percent to single digit.” he says. “We’re product experts in creating
mathematical and statistical algorithms.
FlexNet Publisher was quickly integrated Flexera Software is an expert in
into Visual Numerics’ operational licensing software.”
database, where licenses are tracked and
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