Software Producers
In FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, a software producer is a company that makes software products that use a licensing system to control access to product functionality. The product functionality is defined in the product’s features, which are licensed to your enterprise by the software vendor. The licensing terms are defined in a contract.
The software producer may also be the software vendor—that is, the same company may both produce and sell its software products to customers.
Note:LinkRight Tracker used the term vendor to refer to both the company that produces software and the company that sells software. In FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, these two companies are represented by software producers and software vendors, respectively.
Each product that you define in FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications must be associated with an existing software producer.
To help you better manage your relationship with software producers, you can define contact information for various personnel within the software producer’s company. For example, you might add contact information for the support representatives who service your account.