Licensing Options
Perpetual Licensing
Perpetual Licensing is a licensing system that requires companies to purchase and register Revu on a per workstation basis using a serial number and product key. Perpetual licensing is available for Revu Standard, CAD and eXtreme and may include Maintenance. Volume discounts are provided for 50 seats or more.
Open Licensing
Open Licensing is an annual subscription that allows companies to authorize concurrent access to Revu eXtreme for any user in their company from a shared pool of seats. Open Licensing brings flexibility and the benefits of volume software licensing to organizations of all sizes, anytime, anywhere.
Seats may be added to an existing Open License at any time, and they will be prorated based on the renewal date. Active subscriptions are entitled to free upgrades and Maintenance, with access to our Technical Support team by phone and email.
- Simply launch Revu to request a seat from the Bluebeam Gateway, a web-accessible portal where licenses are hosted and managed.
- If a seat is available, the Gateway automatically allocates it to the user and authorizes Revu to run on that computer.
- Once all available seats are in use, the Gateway limits further requests for Revu to run.
- When an active user closes Revu, the Gateway automatically retrieves the seat and immediately makes it available for others to access.
- Access to the Bluebeam Gateway
- Count active Revu users versus available seats
- View usage trends over a selectable calendar period
- Access historical data of overages
- Export logs, registered computers and username data
- Manage multiple seats through a single interface
- Invite additional Administrators to assist in managing active users
- Incrementally update users to the latest version of Revu eXtreme
Open Licensing supports Revu eXtreme, version 2015.5 and above.
For situations when connectivity to the internet becomes temporarily unavailable, or if a computer is outside of the office and cannot connect, Open License seats will switch to offline mode. In offline mode, each device is granted three days to use the program before it is required to connect back to the Bluebeam Gateway.
Administrators have the option to log in to the Gateway and manually release any user whose status is inactive. If the Administrator releases a seat while a user is working in the program, we release the seat but also protect the active user by allowing them to continue working so that they will not lose their work. Only when they close and reopen Revu again will they need an available Open License seat to continue working with Revu.
We understand that fully upgrading software within an organization takes time. If you own an Open License and an upgrade to the next version becomes available, both the current and new versions will continue sharing the same pool of seats. This allows for ultimate flexibility when your environment requires incremental upgrades.
Enterprise Licensing
An Enterprise License is a special license key of Bluebeam Revu designed to help manage computer turnover. It does two things:
- Automatically releases registered computers that have failed to communicate with our licensing server for 15 days.
- Provides a temporary 5% overage of the total number of allowed installations.
In other words, once a machine takes up a seat by registering to an Enterprise License, it will periodically ping Bluebeam’s Licensing Server to confirm that it is still active. If the machine fails to communicate with the server for a period of 15 days, it will automatically be released from the license key, freeing up the seat to be registered to another machine. The 5% overage, or cushion, allows for the lag time between re-imaging workstations or releasing inactive seats. If you exceed the overage allowance, an “exceeded licenses” warning will appear, and further installations will be restricted.
The benefit of Enterprise Licensing is that there is no longer a need to manually uninstall or release seats from workstations that are being transferred, phased out or re-imaged. This Enterprise Licensing option takes care of that for you, ensuring that your licensed seats are fully utilized. Plus, because it is managed with Bluebeam servers, there is no need to install or maintain anything locally.
- Access to the Bluebeam Gateway
- Count active Revu users versus available seats
- Manage multiple seats through a single interface
- Invite additional Administrators to assist in managing active users
- Incrementally update users to the latest version of Revu eXtreme
With an Enterprise License, you gain access to the Bluebeam Gateway, a web portal for viewing and managing both Enterprise and Open Licenses. The Bluebeam Gateway allows you to view how many seats of each version and edition you own, how many computers, or “seats,” are registered to each license, and which computers they are.
As long as your total number of registered machines per edition does not exceed the total number of seats allowed plus the 5% overage allowance, you are good! If you are approaching or exceeding your limit, you can purchase additional seats or unregister licenses from computers as needed. Any new seats purchased may take up to 24 hours to update and appear in the Gateway.
There are a couple requirements for Enterprise Licensing. First, your licenses must be consolidated into a single license key by product. Second, your annual Maintenance must be current and maintained. Please note, Enterprise Licenses are not intended for Citrix or other terminal server environments.
For information about Enterprise Licensing, please reach out to sales@advancedspatial.com.au or +61 8 9367 2888.
Contact sales@advancedspatial.com.au or +61 8 9367 2888.