In the latest release of Nitro-LM Administrator (6.0.0025), we’ve added custom SMTP server support.  This allows you to brand the license experience and send e-mails through your own servers instead of e-mails appearing to come from @nitromation.com.  In this post, I’ll walk you through using a gmail account to brand your license experience.
The first step [...]

We’ve often said that licensing is one of the first experiences your customers will have of your software.  You want to make sure that the licensing experience is seamless, painless, and leaves a good impression.  You also want to ensure that you control the branding of your software from start to finish and that includes [...]

The Nitro-LM Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of our new Nitro-LM Administrative SOAP API.
Nitro-LM’s Administrative GUI has been the primary interface for common administrative functions such as creating new customers, associating products/licenses to customers, moving and setting license variables, etc… While the existing Administrative GUI is very easy to use and [...]

As we all know, there are may ways to conduct business in the Software Industry.  We have been very fortunate to meet, discuss and share ideas regarding approaches to not just development and marketing – but also the business side of how to grow and maintain a revenue stream.  It is amazing how often discussions regarding licensing [...]

A lot has been happening with the Nitro-LM team lately. We’ve been working hard to bring you new communication mechanisms and API interfaces as well as updating some of our example code.
New Google Group – We’ve launched a new Nitro-LM Google group to aid in support. This group helps us answer questions in [...]

View the short screencast above gives an overview of what Library Keys are and how they are used and setup in Nitro-LM.

The Online Flex Meetup Group is Organized by John Mason out of Atlanta, GA. His group attracts attendees from all over the USA and the World. We received an Invitation to present to this group on June 10, 2009. The event was recorded and also covered some material that was also presented [...]

The Nitro-LM licensing system is very feature packed. For a new user, it can sometimes be a little bit daunting to get set up and running. I’ve put together a screencast showing some common tasks to complete when getting started in the Nitro-LM system. If you haven’t yet signed up for a [...]

I recently had an opportunity to present Nitro-LM to the Atlanta flash user group on the topic of DRM and the Flash Platform. The slides are attached (you’ll have to rotate them in Adobe Reader, for some reason, sliderocket didn’t print them out right-side up) along with the recording of the webex meeting.

So this is one of the more interesting problems that Software Development Companies are faced with. While this should be obvious to anyone in business, it is amazing how few pay attention to it. Imaging how difficult it is to predict your revenue stream when you have customers that are NOT REQUIRED to [...]