LICENSE USE FOR AFFILIATED COMPANIES JUST GOT SIMPLER
Reduce license administration with XProtect Corporate, XProtect Expert, and XProtect Professional+ 2021 R1
As business grows, enterprises that consist of several affiliated companies sometimes need to administrate and manage hundreds of Software License Codes (SLCs) for their XProtect VMS. The End User License Agreement (EULA) for XProtect 2021 R1 simplifies the license administration for such affiliated companies. It allows the user of XProtect VMS product (XProtect Corporate, XProtect Expert, and XProtect Professional+) to grant access to and permit the use of the product by its affiliated companies. This means that a single SLC can be used to deploy XProtect VMS across several affiliated companies, where each deployment gets its share of the total number of purchased device licenses.
The end-user of XProtect VMS product, the licensee, remains fully responsible for the affiliated companies’ access and use of the XProtect VMS product in compliance with the Milestone EULA.
Who can benefit from this change?
You can benefit from this change if you and the other company in mind are ‘affiliated companies’:
- You control* the company (e.g., you and your subsidiaries)
- You are controlled* by the company (e.g., you and your parent company)
- You are under common control* (e.g., you and your sister company if controlled by the same parent company)
None-affiliated companies, such as franchisor and franchisee, cannot benefit from this change.
* “Control” shall mean the ownership of more than fifty percent of the voting securities entitling to the right to elect or appoint the majority of the board of directors, or a similar managing authority.
This change applies to Milestone XProtect video management products that are multi server enabled: XProtect Corporate, XProtect Expert and XProtect Professional+, and XProtect Add-on products used together with these VMS products.
