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What is Solar?

Why Solar?
Solar Business Model

Why is Solar free?
     
     
What is Solar?

Solar is an advanced, secure software protection and licensing system that allows you to protect your program from unauthorized users and provides you with a reliable yet easy to implement licensing system. Solar allows you manage the process of offering trials, providing working copies of your program, managing licenses, and protect against people giving each other copies of your working program to install on their systems? Further, Solar allows you to authorize each and every copy of your application being run on each of your users PC's. It adds copy protection, software authorization and demo periods (demo period can be based on number of days a user can use the application or number of times a user can use the application) to your software and ensures that your application only runs on PC's that you authorize.

Unlike most methods of software registration, the Unlock Keys are generated based on the computer hardware that the software is being installed on. This means that once your software has been installed, a user cannot copy it to another computer and use it without getting a different Unlock Key from you for that computer. Solar simplifies the process of transferring licenses from one computer to another. For example, if your customers wants to move license from his home computer to say work computer, they do not have to contact you.They can use the transfer functionality built into Solar to do so. 

Solar comes with a license management tool called Solar Control Center. Check out the screen shots for more detail. Its easy to use interface allows you to generate software keys (for registration and also for trial extension) , manage customer information and track customer purchases.

   
Why Solar?
  • Support for multiple business models, including try-before-you-buy, limited usage and Multi-level usage.

  • Automatic key activation that eliminates the need for consumer key entry and reduces customer service contacts.

  • Piracy protection that safeguards purchased programs against illegal distribution.

  • Solar gives you the power of using steganography licensing technology to implement a secure software licensing solution.

  • Implementation of industry standard encryption (AES 128bit Encryption - official U.S. Government approved standard) system that will protect software from reverse engineering and analyzing.

  • Debugger detection functionality does not allow the protected software to run if someone is trying to debug it.

  • Lock software to target computer. Solar locks your software using the following parameters.

    • HD volume ID;

    • OS ID; and

    • CPU ID

  • Enable licenses by web, phone, fax or e-mail.

  • Allow your client to securely remove program licenses from his computer.

  • Allow your client to transfer program licenses from one computer to another.

  • You can now easily extend trial period for your client by generating trial extension key.

  • Three different custom activation dialog box.

  • Secure and simple license management (Solar Control Center). Can be easily configured to work against (SQL Sever, MySQL, Access)

  • Solar will work on most windows operating system. Solar has been tested on a wide range of computers with Windows 98 SE, 2000 and XP operating systems.

 

Business Model Support

Solar supports Try Before You Buy functionality, limited and multi-level usage and protection of paid programs.

    Business Model     Solar Features
  Try Before You Buy   Full support for time based (example: 30 days) and operations based trials (example: 10 operations).
  Limited Usage, Multi-Level Usage (3 different levels)   Supports capability to enable and disable access to application functionality and/or “levels” of application areas. Common for Base/Premium use - all by protecting a single application.
   
Why is Solar free?

Solar is a tool for programmers by programmers. We know it s difficult to put your hands on different things at the same time. We want you to do concentrate on your product and not worry about software licensing and protection. Solar was developed keeping programmer in mind. We further added the Solar control center keeping Software Managers in mind. We are distributing Solar with sole purpose of making it robust, scalable and unbreakable. For this to happen, we need your help. Please let us know how we can improve the Solar. This would be our BEST RETURN ON INVESTMENT.

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