“There is a definite trend toward the user community demanding the ability to purchase software and support as a subscription or as a service. As a result, we are providing our publishers, their users and channel partners with enhanced subscription management tools,” said Ed Rose, OCS President and CEO. “Poetic 11.0 provides publishers, their channel partners and users enhanced visibility to their subscription entitlements and the flexibility to configure their renewals for the upcoming year. This release also provides publishers with enhanced product bundling possibilities and gives users greater flexibility in how they deploy those bundles.”

Key features in Poetic 11.0 include:

• Renewal dashboard for self-service
  The new Renewal Dashboard has been designed as the centerpiece of the renewal process. Users now have a single location to view all expiring entitlements and renewal request information. Channel partners and publishers can use the Renewal Dashboard to aid in managing and monitoring customer renewal activities.
• Enhanced group and coordinator management
  Poetic 11.0 supports user-defined groups that allow end customers to organize entitlements into groupings that make sense for their company’s environment. This functionality was previous part of the contracts module but has been enhanced is now available as core Poetic functionality.
• Creating and activating shell bundle entitlements
  Poetic now supports the bundling of multiple products or components under one shell while allowing users to activate the software components within the bundle individually. This provides the user community more self-service tools and very flexible deployment options.
• Help System Enhancements
  The help system for Poetic 11.0 supports localization so users receive on-line system support in their native language. It also allows publishers to customize terms so they can communicate to their users in a consistent manner. To provide information to users more quickly, context-sensitive help has been introduced. Users simply click an icon to receive the help content for the task they are performing.

About Open Channel Solutions
Open Channel Solutions (OCS) is a leading global provider of software revenue optimization and lifecycle management solutions. The core of the company's technology based solutions is Poetic License, the company's flagship product. Poetic combined with OCS’s consulting, implementation services and global customer care delivers an end-to-end entitlement, subscription and software delivery solution to publishers and OEMs. The results are increased predictability in entitlement revenues, increased subscription renewal rates, increased channel revenues, automated processes and reduced licensing administrative costs. Headquartered in Norwood, MA, the company also has offices in Utah, the Netherlands, Australia and Japan. For more information, visit www.ocs.com.

For Further Information Contact:
Jim Werner, Open Channel Solutions
781-407-3900
jim_werner@ocs.com