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License Models Supported with HCL Unica
HCL Unica products supports below license models.
Unica Deliver License
Unica Deliver entitlement is calculated as:

Licensing Guide
- Licensing Overview
- What User Needs To Do?
  HCL Unica customers will get a HCL License portal URL and login credentials via email. This portal will have the license entitlements allotted as per the purchase done by the customer. The customer needs to follow below mentioned steps to complete the registration process and configure the devices for HCL Unica products.
- HCL License Portal
  The license portal provides both Software distribution and management of your Software entitlements purchased from HCL Products and Platforms. The portal provides you with control and flexibility on how to consume your licenses. Typically, an organization will have someone identified as a License Manager that has familiarity with the language of Licenses, and you may wish to add them as a user. If not, you will find these instructions sufficient to begin using your HCL Software.
- Flexnet License Server
- License Models Supported with HCL Unica
  HCL Unica products supports below license models.
  - Term Based Licenses
    Term based licenses will be allocated to all new product licenses when you will install/upgrade Unica 12.1 products. Term duration can be anything. Unica support term based licenses with multiple options. Term based licenses come with effective and expiry dates. These term based license could also have restrictions on consumption. Please find below details on these options which are supported with Unica.
  - Perpetual Licenses
    If you are upgrading from earlier Unica version to 12.1 you could have the option to use the Perpetual license model for existing products, you are a license to use. The perpetual model does not have any duration associated with it and does not have any restrictions on consumption. Per year this license usage will get reset and Unica will start capturing the consumption fresh for next year. HCL will be billing the customers based on the consumption of products in the Perpetual license model.
  - License Check on Unica Launch
    When you launch Unica application after upgrade or clean install of 12.1 version it checks for the license validity. When Unica application launches for the first time it will prompt you for the license. You will need to provide license details. Unica does not need to have licenses configured on the non-production environments. License device associated with any production environment should have the Unica Marketing Platform entitlements associated with it. You will not be able to access/launch applications if your device does not contain entitlements for that respective product.
  - Term license flow
    If any of product in entitlement is Term based license model, it will get elapsed in the following scenarios:
  - Perpetual license flow
    Perpetual licenses do not have any restrictions and expiry date. Perpetual licenses supported with Unica are “Overdraft” with no constraints. Perpetual licenses consumption will be reset every year. Unica will continue updating the entitlements count after reset as per the usage.
  - Alerts and Notifications
    Unica will be sending alerts and notifications on different events or triggers on the license usage. Notifications & alerts will be sent to users with role Admin Role (HCL Marketing Platform) and the System alerts (under Notification Subscription for Unica Platform ) are turned on for the user.
  - Usage Management for Unica Products
    Unica provides term and perpetual licenses categorized under UPP (Unica Power Pack) and a la carte parts. The license comes with one year validity.
  - Unica Platform license
    Unica Marketing Platform entitlement is calculated as:
  - Unica Campaign License
    Unica Campaign entitlement consumption is calculated as:
  - Unica Interact License
    Unica Interact entitlement is calculated as:
  - Unica Deliver License
    Unica Deliver entitlement is calculated as:
  - Unica Journey License
    Unica Journey entitlement is calculated as:
  - Unica Link license details on consumption
    Unica Link uses the license details configured in the Marketing Platform. Below entitlements are available for Unice Link (framework and connectors)
- License Configuration
  User will need to configure the license with HCL Unica products before start using, when users access the Unica Platform login URL – it will get redirected to the license configuration page. The user needs to configure the license details on this page. Unica Platform will validate the license and on a successful license, the configuration user will be redirected to the Unica Marketing Platform login screen. There are two radio buttons on the License configuration screen Flexnet and Platform. Flexnet button will connect to Flexnet to consume the license and Platform option is for Master slave configuration. Slave platform will consume the license from the Master platform, so for slave platform user needs to click on the Platform radio button and enter the master platform url and credentials. Once this is done, slave platform will start consuming license from the Master platform, which in turn will consume license from Flexnet.
- Logging for Licensing
  Detail logging for license server connection, updates, expiry, etc. is logged in Unica Platform log file present under <PLATFORM_HOME>/logs/platform.log. Users will get warning, error, and info type messages related to licensing.

Unica Deliver License

Unica Deliver entitlement is calculated as:

Emails sent using Deliver are tracked on a monthly/yearly basis.
1 email send using Deliver is counted as 1 entitlement.
Users are entitled to 1 million Unica Deliver Email Message per month, that can be carried forward from one month to another within a year.
Users are entitled to 12 M Unica Deliver Email Message every year.
Five types of mails are counted are Production mails, Test mail, Schedule mails, Bounce mails and TMS.

Note: From version 12.1.0.3 onwards Deliver license is bifurcated into two types Reseller and Referral

Based on Partner models deliver licenses are of two types Referral and Reseller.

Partner Models (Referral vs Reseller)

Referral Agreement (AKA Channel Partner)
- Customer signs directly with partner
- Price change notification communicated is exposed to directly with customer
- Preferred for deals were customer is exposed to price fluctuations to benefit from lowest possible prices.
- Minimum admin overhead in managing HCL price change in usage/billing systems.
- Minimises renewal conversations for intra-annum deals.
Reseller Agreement
- Customer signs with HCL, Partner invoices HCL and HCL bill customer.
- Price changer notifications updated at term renewal time (annually).
- Preferred for deals were the customer prefers a single contract.
- Minor admin overhead for HCL in managing renewals.
- Part and price lists require periodic updates and maintenance.
- Allows HCL to offer price stability for an increase in price and a one stop shop contract for email / SMS.
- WhatsApp cannot be resold – WhatsApp customers can only be referred.


Product	Type
Deliver_Email_Messages	HCL Owned
Deliver_SMS_Karix	Referral
Deliver_SMS_Twilio	Reseller
Deliver_SMS_RML_Channel	Referral
Deliver_SMS_RML_Reseller	Reseller
Deliver_Whatsapp_RML	Referral
Deliver_Litmus	Reseller
Deliver_Mailmonitor	Reseller

License for Litmus and Mailmonitor cannot be configured on the non-production environments. For Litmus each client preview will consume 52 licenses. Also, overdraft facility is not available for any of the resellers, litmus and mailmonitor. For resellers, Litmus and MailMonitor once the allocated entitlements are consumed user cannot use that feature.

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