Metaforic Enterprise Applications
Metaforic's MetaFortress technology is applicable across a range of Enterprise sectors, protecting Software and Intellectual Property and ensuring only originators can make changes that benefit your business and your customers. Hackers need not apply.
Whether a company is a manufacturer of Network Infrastructure devices requiring to prevent cloning or counterfeiting or an Independent Software vendor where company value is dependent on ongoing license revenue, Metaforic's growing range of Anti-tamper Application Protection solutions are now coming on stream to help you maintain your revenue through troubled times.
High Value Software- Given these applications’ inherent ability to streamline and generate real efficiencies throughout the production process of a range of products, their value has long been recognised by legitimate users. These capabilities are also not lost on less-scrupulous users who are happy to use pirated copes from disk or download or may “accidentally” over-use their licence allocation in order to minimise their costs and maintain a competitive edge.
According to Symantec Corporation’s “Underground Economy” research; in 2007 11% of the value of all pirated software on a single Torrent Site on the Internet over a single month was in the category- Business Productivity Applications.
This was second only to Video Games. The same techniques used to pirate consumer applications and content are regularly employed to gain unauthorised access to very much higher value applications. There is no reason to suppose this figure has decreased. There are approximately 200 active piracy groups with as many as 10% active specifically in the cracking of High Value Software (averaging $4,000 USD in license value).
Metaforic has developed a range of technology that is proving itself in protecting Intellectual Property in a range of markets and across a wide range of Enterprise and Embedded platforms. The company has already installed the revolutionary MetaFortress Anti-Tamper tools at industry leaders in the EDA market place and is now offering these and the MetaSure Licence Management products to all key High-Value Software vendors.
Independent Software Vendors - There is a growing market for software tools that allow IP owners to track users of unlicensed software in order to attempt to request payment, whether by simple sales calls or legal redress. These tools undoubtably have thier place but wouldn't be so much easier to prevent the license subversion, deliberate or not, in the first place? This is where Metaforic products can protect software developers' business model, by allowing only authorised users to access software while minimising the impact of the licence management regime.
Embedded Systems - Metaforic's first applications have been running on very thin client embedded systems (handheld games consoles). These skills have been transferred to provide Anti-Tamper protection to Embedded Systems used in the Networking and Defence industries. Running on customers' own Operating Systems, as well as Linux and Windows variants, and across PowerPC, Intel and ARM processors, Metaforic products are demonstrating new capabilities in IP protection, Network Integrity and Anti-Tamper protection.