Accelerate Business-to-Business Commerce:  Build Flexibility into your Automated Licensing System

Selling software entitlements is an extremely complex, constantly changing process. The Poetic Business-to-Business Commerce Module builds flexibility into your infrastructure so you can easily handle dynamic commerce operations.  Our automated licensing system simplifies the delivery of license and subscription software, helps your channel accurately price for wide-ranging variety of customers, and gives end-customers intuitive enterprise asset management software.

With Poetic Business-to-Business Commerce automated licensing system, you can:

• Easily deal with the proliferation of unique price books driven by the complexity of programs and go-to-market strategies serving different market segments
• Ensure only clean, compliant orders from your channel and end-customers, accelerating the order process.  Self-service order entry integrates license data, contract details and program rules for discreet orders
• Our automated licensing systems manages complex rule sets and pricing calculations for thousands of possible order configurations, while automatically factoring in discounts
• Enhance channel and end user purchasing experience with Poetics intuitive shopping cart.  Our B2B cart is channel-aware; contract and business rule savvy; supports purchase orders and credit card processes; applies appropriate discount rates automatically and more.

The Poetic Business-to-Business Commerce module is comprised of contract management and order management:

Contract management:

• Manages complex programs rules
• Supports multiple license program types
• Enables tiered discount models
• Accommodates contract merges, disablements and partial merges
• Provides contract status and extension capabilities

Order management:

• Order entry that supports multi-tiered channels
• Multi currency and geography capability
• Order workflow and rules enforcement for clean orders
• Subscription management software efficiently handles inherent complexities of time-based licensing
• Calculates complex pricing and manages pro-rated calculations as well as co-terminations
• Captures channel data all the way through to the end customer
• Integrates returns management