I am (apparently) spearheading the switch from the SS4/Select licensing over to the SS10/Enterprise licensing. I will be "test-driving" the SS10 products to make sure they are compatible with the older SS4 products. I understand that SS10 products will use the Enterprise licensing instead of our Select Server. I do NOT think we have that set up yet, I'm not sure how that process would be handled, and I don't have the authority to do it myself. I've read the FAQs, but I'm not sure how to translate them for the person who handles the paperwork administration side of things for us.
Is there anyone out there who has run a "mixed shop", or has gone through the transition in pieces who could offer me any advice to help me understand and explain what needs to be done so that I can request SS10 and have a license available to do the testing? We may even have something set up for the enterprise licensing and I am not explaining myself well enough to get the true answer.
Thank you.
MaryB
Hi Mary,
In case you have not seen it (as it is a fairly new article) but this should walk you through the process. I would be very interested in feedback as I helped create it and it is going to be used by many other users. i am open to making it better.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/licensing/w/licensing__wiki/48337/understanding-the-ses-workflow-options
One thing that I should add based on your comment is the paperwork (contract) changes needed by someone to work in a mixed use shop. The answer is, there are none. Nothing needs to be changed on the contract. You can use both, but know that the license alerting feature will need to be adjusted as it will not know how many users are still using licenses with activation keys. That said, reporting will show total usage from both systems as the data all flows into one system.
Thanks,
Glenn