The document discusses Synopsys' licensing acclimation process following mergers and acquisitions. The goals are to provide consistent licensing behavior across all products to improve customer satisfaction, and to meet both Synopsys' needs for a streamlined licensing infrastructure and customers' needs for a simplified system with a single license server. The scope of acclimation includes sales channels, product marketing, order management, bug tracking, support, installations, releases, and licensing.
To help you detect and resolve potential problems in your installation project, you can perform several types of validation before you run the installation on a target system. The types of validation discussed in this white paper include:
• Build warnings and errors
• Internal Consistency Evaluator (ICE) validation
• Update and patch validation
Addressing these types of design-time validation errors will help
you avoid errors. This white paper also shows you how InstallShield® helps you with design-time validation.
To help you detect and resolve potential problems in your installation project, you can perform several types of validation before you run the installation on a target system. The types of validation discussed in this white paper include:
• Build warnings and errors
• Internal Consistency Evaluator (ICE) validation
• Update and patch validation
Addressing these types of design-time validation errors will help
you avoid errors. This white paper also shows you how InstallShield® helps you with design-time validation.
A proposal for an advertising agency to consider how to differentiate itself in the market, set a standard in environmental awareness and conservation.
Do you have a website? Is your website doing its job? I'll be having a free live event web training to discuss this, details at http://LouisaChan.com/hangout-website...
Do you know if it;s time for a website makeover? What are the criteria to determine if your website is effectively functioning as your marketing tool?
I held a live Google Hangout on Air on this and if you are interested to find out more info here's the link
http://www.louisachan.com/effective-websites-that-capture-leads-training
If you have any questions or needs, feel free to connect with Louisa Chan:
Google+ http://LouisaChan.com/gplus
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LouisaChanYS
LinkedIn: http://my.linkedin.com/in/louisachan/
Twitter: http://Twitter.com/CoachLouisa
Communities are at the core of the human experience and our design practice, yet we don’t always put the same level of active effort in designing our communities as we do in designing the products and services we make. We live and work embedded in networks of other people and systems. Communities are defined by shared norms and culture, and have a massive impact on how we live, think and act. Why leave this up to chance? We are all stewards of the many communities we engage in every day, and we need to take an active role in mindfully crafting these communities. So, how do we craft better communities? What does better even mean? This talk is a reflection on my experiences building and crafting communities at a variety of scales from the personal to the global. I will discuss my successes and failures, my fears and delights, as well as lessons learned along the way. We are nothing without the communities we inhabit, so let’s make them great together.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyNoVk7J5uI
Housing Vouchers: What They Are and How To Calculate ThemAndy Carswell
This slide show presentation describes the framework of the housing voucher program, specifically who benefits from it and how the structure of the program is set up. The presentation explains the types of regulations and financial obligations that a household will face in this situation. The information presented here can benefit both those who are seeking some form of housing assistance and those landlords who are interested in accommodating voucher-assisted households.
High-Level Synthesis Skill Development Needs - IEDECJack Erickson
Presentation at the March 2013 IEDEC conference in Santa Clara, CA. Outlines the need for hardware design to move up in abstraction to SystemC and high-level synthesis, and the main barrier left preventing this - a rare combination of skills. The best place to address this skill set gap is in university curricula.
A proposal for an advertising agency to consider how to differentiate itself in the market, set a standard in environmental awareness and conservation.
Do you have a website? Is your website doing its job? I'll be having a free live event web training to discuss this, details at http://LouisaChan.com/hangout-website...
Do you know if it;s time for a website makeover? What are the criteria to determine if your website is effectively functioning as your marketing tool?
I held a live Google Hangout on Air on this and if you are interested to find out more info here's the link
http://www.louisachan.com/effective-websites-that-capture-leads-training
If you have any questions or needs, feel free to connect with Louisa Chan:
Google+ http://LouisaChan.com/gplus
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LouisaChanYS
LinkedIn: http://my.linkedin.com/in/louisachan/
Twitter: http://Twitter.com/CoachLouisa
Communities are at the core of the human experience and our design practice, yet we don’t always put the same level of active effort in designing our communities as we do in designing the products and services we make. We live and work embedded in networks of other people and systems. Communities are defined by shared norms and culture, and have a massive impact on how we live, think and act. Why leave this up to chance? We are all stewards of the many communities we engage in every day, and we need to take an active role in mindfully crafting these communities. So, how do we craft better communities? What does better even mean? This talk is a reflection on my experiences building and crafting communities at a variety of scales from the personal to the global. I will discuss my successes and failures, my fears and delights, as well as lessons learned along the way. We are nothing without the communities we inhabit, so let’s make them great together.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyNoVk7J5uI
Housing Vouchers: What They Are and How To Calculate ThemAndy Carswell
This slide show presentation describes the framework of the housing voucher program, specifically who benefits from it and how the structure of the program is set up. The presentation explains the types of regulations and financial obligations that a household will face in this situation. The information presented here can benefit both those who are seeking some form of housing assistance and those landlords who are interested in accommodating voucher-assisted households.
High-Level Synthesis Skill Development Needs - IEDECJack Erickson
Presentation at the March 2013 IEDEC conference in Santa Clara, CA. Outlines the need for hardware design to move up in abstraction to SystemC and high-level synthesis, and the main barrier left preventing this - a rare combination of skills. The best place to address this skill set gap is in university curricula.
SIMPACK - a high-end Multi-body simulation tool, gives you complete insight of Multi-body dynamics. There are quite a few users in India, of which we had a User Meet, to take the Users inputs and to understand their difficulties. User meet will be held every year to understand the progress of our customers. Want to know more about SIMPACK MBD or the solely authorized SIMPACK distributor, feel free to contact us.
Continuous Delivery, Reactive Manifesto, Microservices, and DevOps are only few of the great ideas and practices that are currently transforming the way we work in IT. For people working in start-ups or with green field projects all this feels natural, you can expect it, you can take it for granted.
Too perfect, and way too easy J If you look for real challenges, look at the Enterprise world.
As a Tech Lead in Danske Bank I have the responsibility to help steering our Enterprise and ignite the evolution process that is needed to stay competitive in today’s markets. Through this quest for Agility in the extreme conditions of an Enterprise we are transforming decades of legacy into actual competitive advantage, enabling us to define and deliver brand new financial services at the rate and speed of start-ups.
Rightsizing Your Silicon Design Environment: Elastic Clusters for EDA Workloa...Amazon Web Services
The static nature of on-premises electronic design automation (EDA) data centers can limit workloads from scaling to meet unforeseen deadlines and aggressive tape-out schedules. The elasticity of the cloud puts virtually unlimited compute capacity at your fingertips and can enable semiconductor companies to quickly scale up in ways they couldn't before, reducing time to market. In this hands-on workshop, you work alongside solutions architects and the AWS internal silicon design infrastructure team to dive deep into scalable architectures for designing chips in the cloud. You deploy an elastic computing cluster that is optimized for EDA workloads and scales dynamically using AWS services. We cover compute, storage, network, security options, and best practices. Within your AWS account, you will retain a silicon design environment running in the cloud. Come prepared to build with a laptop and an existing AWS account. AWS credits will be provided.
CielMech is an IC package assembly focused Software As A Service (SAAS) product. If you are interested in design, material choice and process related parameters influencing warpages at various stages of the assembly of an IC package, CielMech is the tool for you. Cielmech allows you to define dimensions, process sequence, materials and stress free conditions to define an FEA problem within minutes. The knowhow and technology embedded in the product generates a ready solve FEA model readable in ANSYS Mechanical software. The Customization embedded in the ANSYS model generated by CielMech further streamlines the modeling process to ensure accurate and repeatable predictions. Packaging of Monolithic ICs, 3D stacked ICs as well as interposer based SOCs can me modeled using the user friendly web based interface.
Target Audience: Engineering professionals from foundries, OSAT, Fabless semiconductor or system level hardware teams who can influence design, material choice or process parameters of monolithic, 3D, or 2.5D IC packages
DevOps in a Public OpenStack Cloud - Hui ChengHui Cheng
Presented at OpenStack Summit Fall 2012, San Diego, by Hui Cheng. Detail notes see here: http://freedomhui.com/2012/10/devops-in-openstack-public-cloud/
Get a Complete View of Your Business Services and IT Estate in ServiceNow wit...Flexera
Context is Critical to IT and an Accurate CMDB is Vital to Context
A near-real time accurate CMDB is an important requirement but a major challenge for modern IT organizations. Bad and missing data can significantly impact the business and result in business impacting service outages, increased business risk and exposure to security threats.
ServiceNow provides the essential management and big picture visibility that is crucial to an effective CMDB. And Flexera | RISC Networks provides detailed discovery data, context and analysis to push into your ServiceNow instance, making the picture of the current state accurate and contextually relevant.
10 Tips to Optimize, Automate, and Govern your Hybrid IT EnvironmentFlexera
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Using Automated Policies for SaaS Governance and ComplianceFlexera
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The Practical Approach for End-to-End SaaS ManagementFlexera
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7 Things You Need to Know for Your Cloud-First StrategyFlexera
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The Role of In-House & External Counsel in Managing Open Source SoftwareFlexera
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Addressing Open Source Risks During M&A: A Legal ViewFlexera
Amy Chun, Partner at Knobbe Martens and Marty Mellican, VP & Associate General Counsel at Flexera discuss why a carefully planned audit of open source should be part of every due diligence effort.
Having Trouble Managing All Your Cloud Services? We Know!Flexera
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View these slides to see how RightScale Optima helps you find that 35% and act on it.
Webinar: Maximizing the ROI of IT by Simplifying Technology ComplexityFlexera
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Webinar: What's New In FlexNet Manager Suite 2018 R1Flexera
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Software Distribution, Customer Experience and the IoT: Get Ready for Fast, S...Flexera
There’s no second chance to make a first impression! Are your software upgrades making a good impression on your customers? Are your software delivery processes fast, scalable, and secure?
Join Forrester Principal Analyst David Johnson, Akamai and Flexera as they discuss what modern electronic software delivery processes should look like in this rapidly growing IoT world.
Fast!
No one likes to wait. Learn how a robust software delivery solution gets software and updates out to customers – without the wait.
Scalable!
File sizes and cadence of updates are faster than ever. Intelligent devices defy conventional software distribution models. Hear what you can do to keep up.
Secure!
Security has many aspects – where do you focus? Discover how to deliver your software in a secure way and only to those entitled to receive it.
Windows 10 webinar: What’s new for IT pros Windows 10 v 1709Flexera
Join Microsoft's Iris Fang and Nick Moseley, Technical Solutions Professionals, for an overview of the new business-friendly features coming in the Windows 10 Update 1709. Whether you have already migrated to Windows 10 and are planning for the upgrade, or preparing to migrate from Windows 7 to The Fall Creators update, this webinar will review what enterprises can expect in the new release.
Don’t Let Hackers Breach Your Data: Shutting Your Risk Window on Apache Struts2Flexera
Cyber-criminals target these known vulnerabilities in both commercial and open source software. Many organizations are either unaware of what’s in their software or take too long to patch their systems. These gaps lead to ignorance of known vulnerabilities and/or a lack of efficient processes to apply critical patches quickly.
Watch this webinar on understanding these gaps, closing the risk window and reducing your risk of a breach. Find out how vulnerable code can be easy to discover and patch.
Announcing the availability of the largest and most comprehensive repository of technology asset data on the planet. Current and constantly curated. Available on the software industry’s first open platform for this data. It’s about time.
Webinar: Take Proactive Control of Your SAP Licensing, Indirect Usage and Ven...Flexera
Join UpperEdge and Flexera in this webinar to learn the importance of getting more proactive control of your SAP relationship to drive predictable outcomes and increased value.
Keeping a Lid on Costs for Cloud Infrastructure and SaaS ApplicationsFlexera
Join us for this webinar as we discuss the spend management risks associated with cloud services and some of the strategies organizations can use to keep a lid on these costs using Software Asset Management processes and tools. We’ll use Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Office 365 as specific examples of cloud infrastructure services and SaaS applications, respectively, that can be managed for better cost efficiency.
Do You Manage Software? Understanding Your Role in Cybersecurity DefenseFlexera
Organizations are under constant attack by hackers targeting applications used by the business. The University of Maryland recently quantified the near-constant rate of attacks on computers with Internet access to every 39 seconds. The best defense requires a holistic approach and collaboration of different teams in a concerted effort to reduce the attack surface for hackers. In this webinar we will discuss the roles and the impact that activities, not always associated with security, have in reducing risk. Whether you are an asset manager, a desktop or datacenter manager, or an IT security professional, your role has a significant impact on your organizations ability to reduce the risk of cyber-attack.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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Topics covered:
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Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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Maintenance of the acquired companies’ licensing infrastructure for
several years is not scalable and operationally impractical
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13. Licensing Acclimation Requirements
• Single Key Generation and Retrieval
• Ability to issue keys for legacy versions of the acquired p
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• Single License Server
• Server keys to new and legacy versions of the acquired products
• Support legacy versions of the acquired products for several years
• Synopsys
• Unacceptable to provide two sets of license keys (no double dipping)!
• Customers
• No impact to product usage
14. Licensing Integration Solution
• Partnered with Flexera Software to develop CVD
• Combined Vendor Daemon
• CVD consolidates several license daemons into one
• Enables license keys to be used for pre-acquired and new
versions of the products
• Enables a single, combined license file for products from
multiple acquisitions
• CVD was released in 2006
• Fully supported by Flexera Software
15. A 4-Step Acclimation Process
1 2 3 4 time
Acquisition: Release single license Release 1st feature Remove support for legacy
Change license key daemon and key file release using products (complete transition
delivery process Synopsys SDK to Synopsys Licensing)
Step 1: Acquisition – Change license key delivery process
Step 2: Release Combined Vendor Daemon (CVD) that supports acquired products
Step 3: Release 1st feature release of acquired products using Synopsys SDK
Step 4: Remove support for legacy products in key file
16. Step 1: Change license key delivery process
Synopsys SmartKeys Pre-acquisition
Synopsys SmartKeys
License keys for
acquired products
Synopsys
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retrieved via
Daemon Daemon SmartKeys
Synopsys Products
Products
Customer
17. Step 2: Release CVD to support acquired products
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Daemon
Daemon Daemon
Single license file and daemon
including products released
prior to acquisition
Synopsys Acquired
Products Products Synopsys Acquired
Products Products
Customers of the acquired
company must upgrade their
license server
18. Step 3: Release 1st feature release of acquired
products using Synopsys SDK
Synopsys Daemon
License key supports both
new and legacy versions of
acquired products
Legacy Release of Acquired
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Products
Products of the
acquired company
release with Synopsys
licensing SDK
Synopsys Products New Release of Acquired Customers don’t need to
Products upgrade their license server;
only the key file
19. Step 4: Remove support for legacy products
in key file
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customers stop using the
pre-acquisition versions of
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Products
20. Licensing Acclimation Benefits
• Synopsys • Customers
• Reduced cost of operation • Cost savings in terms of
• Reduced cost of support hardware and personnel to
manage license server key
server,
• No double licensing files, etc.
• Smooth and seamless • Improved end-user licensing
transition from legacy experience
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daemon to Synopsys
licensing • No impact to product usage
21. Summary
• CVD project was successfully rolled out in 2006
• Consolidated several license dae o s into a single license se e
Co so da ed se e a ce se daemons o s g e ce se server
• All Synopsys customers use this functionality
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• 1000s of installations of CVD daemon
• Acquired products migrate to CVD 1 or 2 releases after acquisition
• Licensing acclimation process proven to be very efficient
• Significant benefit to our customers and Synopsys