SF ProActive for Business is designed to protect business applications in a single user environment. Distribution of a protected product allows selling it both via the Internet or on optical discs. SF ProActive for business prevents unauthorized usage, home-made and industrial copying, illegal distribution, reverse engineering and cracking.
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SF ProActive for business
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"We have been cooperating with StarForce to protect developed software for five years. We have never regretted about our choice for all time of our team-work." |
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SF ProActive combines both reliable and convenient protection technologies with DRM. It allows to implement actual models of product licensing (demo, try&buy, try&die, buy only, subscription, rent) and ensures obligatory program activation by the end user.
SF ProActive for business supports the following license and protected software usage models:
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disc-to-disc
The software is distributed on discs and the software usage means disc presence in a drive. This works by software binding to disc.
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disc-to-activation
The software is distributed on discs but next software work is performed from end user's computer. In that case the discs aren’t just the software storage but the distribution instrument – to launch software it is necessary to activate it. So end-users can transfer disc with protected software to each other, but application will start to work only after buying license for it and its activation, before this the application can be accessible in trial mode. Also additional protection of software is available: a part of the software (installation pack) will be bound to storage. Additional protection consists in that software from disc can be installed to computer only one time. This protects software from the further distribution.
1st and 2nd variants are suitable for box versions distributed at retail and e-shops (as points of sales).
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download-to-activation
This variant is suitable for software distribution via Internet. Users get software by downloading it on computer. In that case SF ProActive for business provides obligatory software activation on end user's computer. Besides it various license models are supported - try&buy (trial), try&die, buy only, subscription, rent.
SF ProActive for business features are:
- Program protection and control over its usage and distribution
- Wide capabilities in established application licensing schemes
Support for various selling and corporate customer care schemes. A number of business (sales) schemes is established (demo, try&buy, try&die, buy only, subscription, rent). Support for various selling and corporate customer care schemes (various license models and flexible approach to user license releases)
- Fast releases of the protected software
Protection can be comfortably applied to a program via Internet directly from customer’s side from any place in the world.
- Implements virtually any distribution scheme including:
- distribution on any kind of media and via any sort of distribution channels
- transfer of authority (selling of various kinds of license types) of product distribution to product dealers and partners
- Individual treatment of partners and distributors
Modeling of trading networks; distinguishing rights to applying protection and distribution
- Provides ability to change established distribution policy after a protected product is released
- Additional protection in the case of distribution on the optical discs with the binding of the protected application to the media.
- Regional settings
This allows determining the regions where selling of the protected program is legal
- Protection settings flexibility
There are a number of ways available to defining hardware binding of a protected program to the end user’s computer.
- Protection settings tuning taking into account the protected program’s architecture and preferred way of its distribution
- Deactivation of a licensed program by the end user
The end user is enabled to transfer the protected program from one computer onto another by deactivating and further activating the program with the same serial number. This applies also to the case when the end user reinstalls OS or modifies computer hardware configuration. This ensures the end user feels comfortable using the protected program.
- Silent program activation with minimum or no user interaction. Also it is possible manual activation of application via Internet, phone, fax or SMS.
- Limiting of the protected program’s functionality
- Private web-office
This gives opportunity to operatively:
- Manage serial numbers and get their usage reports
- Control the product’s usage and distribution
- Set limits on the protected program taking into account the business model
- Protection of program’s updates
- Protection of an unlimited number of executable files
SF ProActive Basic, Pro features comparison table
Depending on needs and capabilities of various customers ProActive product has 2 versions – Basic and Pro.
| | Basic | Pro |
| What to use | To protect inexpensive programs | To protect any kind of software which needs reliable protection |
| Protection level | min | min-max |
| Licensing models available | Buy only | Demo; Try&Die; Try&Buy; Buy only; Rent; Subscription |
Base features:
Specification of the type of the key
Specification of how many times a program can be activated (defaults to 10)
Specification of the minimum time before program reactivation
Specification of the level of binding | + | + |
Scope limits:
Specification of a serial number time scope
Specification of the start date of the license
Specification of the end data of license
Specification of the license validity scope | + | + |
| Regional settings: Specification of a list of countries where the license can be activated | - | + |
| Setting program functionality limits | - | + |
Additional features
Specification of the maximum number of workstations the program can be activated simultaneously
Specification of the maximum number of program’s runs
Specification of how long the program can work without restart | + | + |
| Custom logic of program functioning depending on a serial number’s part | - | + |
| Editing of serial numbers/Serial number generation parameters This allows changing of the distribution policy of the program already released, changing of parameters by certain end users, etc. | - | +* |
| Serial number Black Listing Allows creating black list of compromised serial numbers which helps to block the activation of protected programs. | + | + |
| Serial number generation by time report Allows to get a report of serial number generation during a specified period | + | + |
| Serial number generation by program report Allows to get a report of serial number generation for a certain protected program | + | + |
| Serial number activation statistics report Allows to get a report of when each serial number has been activated | + | + |
| Serial number activation statistics by scope Allows to get a report of activated serial number during certain period | + | + |
| Deactivation of a program by end user | + * | + * |
Protection is applied by StarForce engineers1
-with source code modifications by SF specialists
-with source code modifications by Client specialist
-without source code modifications |
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| Twenty-four-hours StarForce support service | + | + |
| Crack-proof guarantee during certain period of time | - | +* |
« + » – available « - » – unavailable « +*» – extra fee
1This service is available with departure of SF specialists in clients office and from SF office in case of granting initial code of protected application.
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