Data Flex Web App Server New Licensing

Data. Flex Web. App Server New Licensing • Choosing the best license solution fo your application and business requirements

Goals for this session…. • • Introduce product name change Define the goals of new license policy Outline expected forms of web app use Align the new licenses with expected use Implementation & transitioning Choosing the right license; practical examples Questions & answers

Introducing…. DATAFLEX WEBAPP SERVER Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 3

New server product name • Old: Visual Data. Flex Web Application Server – 13 syllables; looong format when written! • New: Data. Flex Web. App Server – Shorter – 7 syllables ; easier to remember – Clear purpose… Web. Apps! – Easier to use when spoken and written (shorter) – Now standard for our web application server products

LICENSING GOALS Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 5

Goals of the New License Policy • A fair, versatile, simple license policy • Motivate current users to create new web apps – …and to convert Windows apps to Web. Apps • Provide a competitive policy for new customers – Stimulate new business and new customers • Provide sufficient options to cover most needs but not so many to create confusion (we hope)

Goals of the New License Policy • Support a range of different business and deployment scenarios – Provide options and flexibility – Avoid constraining product use and opportunity with a license policy that is too restrictive, too complicated or too expensive • Base pricing on “value metrics” – Something that can be counted

HOW ARE WEBAPPS USED?

Scenario 1: Administrative • Administrative, transactional Web. Apps – Function… • Equivalent to a “Data. Flex application” on Windows • A business process, “back office”, transactional – User profile. . • Users are known; defined by administrator • Usage patterns are known & predictable – User-based licensing works well

Scenario 2: Customer Facing Web. Apps • Often a companion for “back office” applications – Users are customers and prospects, not employees • Information content is for known and unknown users: sales, customer service, support and contact – Marketing or technical product information – Status checking – order shipped? Account balance, etc. – Repairs and warranty claims – Scheduling, reservations, information update • User based licensing not suitable – User count can vary widely; unpredictable

Scenario 3: E-commerce • E-commerce web site – shopping cart – Business role: operational; supports sales – Categorically – customer-facing – Users can be unique, known, unknown, self-defining • One-time-users or recurring users • Transaction volume is unpredictable; seasonally variable • Not suitable for user based licensing – User count not predictable; can vary widely

Scenario 4: Personal Service • Personal service – e. g. weight loss web site – No functional Windows equivalent – Consumer-oriented • Business role: The application is the business; typically, a subscription is paid monthly per user of the application or service – Users are unique; can be self-defining – Load and usage level is unpredictable • May be suitable for user based licensing

Scenario 5: Saa. S • Software-as-a-Service (Saa. S) – Multi-tenant – different companies operate in one server or cluster environment • Shared application; no shared data – Business model: subscription/month per user – Ofter different usage and fee profiles… • A fee scenario in a school Saa. S application – – Administrators – highest fee; most functionality Teachers – modest fee – grade and attendance mgmt. Students – small fee per student Parents – free; related to Students

…and a new name NEW 17. 1 WEB LICENSES

Usage based license issues • Previously – licensing was server based • As of 17. 1 – usage based licenses • Value metrics – something countable as basis – Good value metrics are consistent; do not vary based on different hardware & other factors • The new licensing value metrics – Users – Applications

New Web Licensing Value Metrics • Users – – The number of people that use a Web. App – Regardless of the number of applications running on a server instance Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 16

Web Client License • The user based Data. Flex Web. App Server license • One Web Client license per named user • Good solution for Administrative Web. Apps – Known, administered users – Scalable according to # of required users • Allows low cost of entry for small apps • Similar to Windows Client Licensing concept – Pricing, user counts, stacking & user upgrades – Familiar to current developers & end user customers

Web Client License • Variations from Windows… – All Web Clients include connectivity – Web Clients are “Named” users (not concurrent) • Precludes small # users to support high actual users – E. g. , 500 casual users can’t operate on a 50 user license • Can be used for Saa. S applications – One named Web Client user for each Saa. S user

Web Client License - Details • A server registration code will be issued to support applications for Web Clients – Additional server reg. codes will be issued without cost in reasonable proportion to user count – Estimate 100 users/server • Servers running Web Clients can connect to an SPLF server. SPLF fee/server applies

Win-Web Combo Client • One license that includes entitlements for a Windows Client and a Web Client • Applicable to new installations using both Windows and web applications • Web user count must equal Windows user Count

New Web Licensing Value Metrics Application Server Instance • Applications – The number of applications running on a server – Regardless of the number of people using the Web. App – Up to 10 Web. Apps – No charge over 10 Application 1 Application 2 Application 3 Application 4 Application 5 Application… Application 10 Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 21

Web Application License • An application-based Data. Flex Web. App license – Value metric: fee per web application per server • The solution for web applications where userbased licenses are not appropriate • Starts with the server and one web application • Incremental fee for each additional web application running on the same server • An application is a registered workspace managed by the Web. App Administrator

Web Application License • Flexible, easy to administer • Can be used for application hosting – Hosting provider pays for each running application • Cannot be used for Saa. S applications – Too many business & technical variables with Saa. S – For Saa. S opportunities, contact Data Access – Technical and business factors will be evaluated to provide Web Application License pricing for Saa. S

Lite License • Server based • Restricted specifications with a low price – Only one application per server – Only one process (pre-loaded) – No restriction on sessions – Cannot connect to SPLF Server • Usage: – Low demand web applications (internet/intranet) – Web Services

SPLF Server • Formerly the “Enterprise Edition” (Master) • Has been mis-understood and under marketed • Offers four key benefits: – Security – better security for infrastructure and data – Performance – greater app server speed and capacity – Load Balancing – using from 1… 255 servers – Failover – automatic continuity if an app server fails

One Application Server Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 26

Application and Database Servers Application Server Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 27

SPLF Server automatically balances user load to multiple application servers SPLF Server Application Server Security and Performance benefits realized with only one Web. App Server Presenter name | Presentation title 3/18/2018 28

SPLF Server automatically balances user load to multiple application servers SPLF Server Application Server Security and Performance benefits realized with only one Web. App Server Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 29

SPLF Server Licensing • Before: High fee for the “Enterprise Server” • Now: Small fee to connect each application server to the SPLF Server

Standby Servers • New; in response to customer requests • Hot Standby – 50% of the price of main server – “Hot” = up-and-running but non-production server activated upon failure of production server by 3 rd party failover software • Cold Standby – 25% of the price of main server – “Cold” = configured, non-running secondary server manually activated upon failure of a production server

New license policy… TRANSITIONING….

New Web. App Licenses • New server licensing policy applies as of Visual Data. Flex 2012 / 17. 1 • New Data. Flex Web. App Server license purchases require choice of Web Client or Web Application model – Pricing on Data Access Europe website • www. Data. Access. eu Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 33

Transitioning… • Subscriptions will be fully respected • Current, subscribed 17. 0 Web. App servers can run 17. 1 Framework applications now • The next subscription renewal of existing servers will be based on the new policies – Declare # applications/server – Declare the # of Web Clients – Subscription will be 25% of the new price Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 34

Transitioning • To change existing Windows Clients to Windows/Web Combo Licenses… – An easy upgrade by connecting Web Clients to an existing Windows Client License • Combo upgrade: 25% of Windows Client License • Subscription fee based on new Combo license – We expect that this will be a very popular change for many Windows users to add Web. Apps to their solutions Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 35

New License Promotion! • Until December 31, 2013, new Data. Flex Web. App Server licenses will be entitled to a 50% discount • Applies to both Web Client and Web Application licenses • Plan server purchases this year and save! Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 36

Additional Resources… • Licensing FAQ – Simple Q&A format about new licensing • Licensing Infographic • on www. Visual. Data. Flex. com – Search for the above terms • New 17. 1 Licensing Summary – On www. Data. Access. eu (link will be sent) Presenter name | Presentation title 3/18/2018 37

Q & A… Chip Casanave | New Data. Flex Licensing 19 Sept 2013 38