Powered by e-academy Inc, ELMS Express offers you the most effective
cloud-based license management and software distribution
platform for your campus.
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Please complete the form below with your contact information and a member of our team will respond to your inquiry promtply. You will also receive an email automatically with the ELMS Express pricing sheet.
ELMS Express Benefits
Hosted by e-academy, ELMS Express is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that provides an effective system to fully manage license distribution throughout your institution. ELMS Express drastically reduces the administrative burden involved in managing site licenses, allowing your institution to easily recover costs and manage your software and license life-cycle.
Benefits
- Customization: Custom branded WebStore with tailored product offerings
- User Verification: Software and licenses are distributed only to eligible users
- Effortless Delivery: End tedious manual software distribution via our seamless Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) system
- License Cost Recovery: Recoup the cost of your site licensing agreements
- Financial Settlements: Multiple payment methods supported including integration with your current financial system
- Easy-to-use Interface: Licenses and software organized by offering and eligibility, via an intuitive WebStore interface
- Inventory Control: Real time inventories to help manage license distribution and compliance
- Enhanced Security: 128-bit SSL encryption, VeriSign secured and PCI compliant WebStore
Why Choose ELMS Express?
With over 10 years in the education market, e-academy has acquired deep program delivery experience. We provide institutions with a turn-key, Web-based license management solution delivered through a custom branded WebStore interface.
Key Features
Affordable Solution
- Low and no-cost options
- Transactional pricing model
- No annual set-up or maintenance fees
User Verification
- Integrated User Verification (IUV) or Shibboelth Single Sign-on enables users to sign in with their institutional ID
- LDAP/AD integration passes username, academic status, groups and departments
- API with documentation and sample code makes integration simple
- e-academy is a member of the InCommon Federation and the Canadian Access Federation (CAF )
Policy Enforcement Options
- Restrict access by academic status, group, or department
- Limit license quantities
- Restrict downloads/distribution
- Display and/or require signature to custom acceptance forms or End-user License Agreements (EULAs)
- Manage upgrades
- Restrict cross-eligibility
- Require admin/purchasing approval prior to order fulfillment
- Control distribution of time limited licenses
Electronic Software Delivery
- Secure key distribution and inventory management
- Enhanced management of delivery to the end-user (secure controls for quantity and bandwidth)
- Multiple secure hosting options
- Global download server pool
- Secure Download Manager (SDM) supports both Windows and Mac Operating Systems
Financial Settlement
- Automated payment collection
- Multiple payment types, including departmental account codes, billing codes and purchase orders
- Credit card and Payment card payments supported
- Ability to apply tax rules
- Support for multiple currencies
Reporting
- Comprehensive reporting system with centralized and localized auditing capabilities
- Financial reporting, user reports, license key distribution, and more
- Real-time, on-demand reports available
Our Clients
Our clients are actively using our technology for online software license management that makes sense and helps them realize significant cost-savings. They represent a multitude of academic organizations. Whether for-profit, state-owned or private, our school clients find that using ELMS Express helps them simplyfy, automate and improve overall software license management and distribution processes.
Some of our Key Clients Include
- DeVry Institute of Technology
- University of Washington
- The City University of New York
- University of Guelph
- Tulane University
- McGill University
- Stanford University
- Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)
- California Institute of Technology
- The University of British Columbia
- University of Southern Mississippi
- Western Kentucky University
- Elon University
- Northwestern – Kellogg School of Management
- Baylor College of Medicine
What our clients are saying
e-academy takes pride in ensuring our clients are fully satisfied with our services. Take a look at what some of them have to say.
University of Guelph
ELMS Express enables Guelph to get our essential software to the right people when and where they need it. Express' tools for wrapping software for Windows and Macs, targeting offers to groups as defined in our Identity Management System, and its on-demand summary and detailed report generating capabilities all contribute to making Express an integral part of the University of Guelph's software asset management strategy. The combination of Express' capabilities with e-academy's provision of responsive and effective technical support adds even more value by significantly reducing the staff support cycles we, as Guelph's central I.T. support group, need to focus on software distribution and asset management.
Peter McCaskell
Lead Analyst
Computing and Communications Services
University of Guelph
Western Kentucky University
At WKU we have made ELMS Express our primary means of software distribution for all of our faculty, staff, and students. We provide service to our campus community’s personal as well as their work computers through e-academyʼs new platform. The Express platform should end up saving the university approximately $6,000 each year over the ELMS Enterprise platform.”
Bryan Taylor
Manager Software and Media Services
Western Kentucky University
Pricing
Please fill out this online form to immediately receive our pricing sheet sent to your email. We keep your information strictly confidential and it will only be used for communications regarding ELMS Express.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Why do I need ELMS Express for my institution? How will this improve current licensing practices?
ELMS Express is designed to be a complete solution to help manage all aspects of your license and software distribution. Users will experience a simple “shopping” experience while policy enforcement, user verification, quantity restrictions, billing, settlements and reporting practices are easily managed via a central system.
Do I need to buy hardware or use my infrastructure to implement ELMS Express?
No. ELMS Express is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and we will fully host your e-academy license management system within a secure Class A datacenter. As an administrator or user, you simply access the Web application via a web-browser.
How does ELMS Express help me streamline my billing and cost-recovery practices?
e-academy has built ELMS Express with your cost-recovery and cost-avoidance goals in mind. You have the option to sell licenses and software via several interchangeable methods.
What software can I distribute via ELMS Express?
You can distribute anything for which you have negotiated the right to distribute. From distributing an antivirus license and download to your entire community for free, to complex situations such as managing site/volume license distribution to multiple departments, you have full control.
