Success Stories

Honeywell Limited

Honeywell Limited is currently using CrypKey SDK (Software Developer Kit) to license its Shadow Plant® product. Shadow Plant® is a fully featured software suite for the process industries, delivering a realistic replica of a plant. This replica can be used to evaluate decisions, check engineering designs, improve performance, and train operations personnel.

How is Honeywell benefiting from CrypKey license management solutions? In 2001, the company wanted to enforce a node-locked licensing scheme but without a hardware dongle requirement. Without sufficient time to design its own solution, the company initially utilized CrypKey Instant, which allowed it to node-lock its main Shadow Plant® executable without changing any source code.

For its next product release, Honeywell switched to CrypKey SDK, which allowed the company to build CrypKey licensing checks directly into its software code... and provide more flexible licensing options to its customers.

Honeywell International is a $23 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services, control technologies for buildings, homes and industry, automotive products; turbochargers, and specialty materials.

Headquartered in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell's shares are traded on the Chicago, London, New York and Pacific Stock Exchanges. Honeywell Limited, its Canadian subsidiary, is Canada's leading controls company offering technology that enhances comfort, improves productivity, saves energy, protects the environment and increases security and safety. Operating in Canada since 1930, Honeywell Limited employs 2,800 people in more than 50 locations across the country.

Lockheed Martin Corporation

CrypKey customer Lockheed Martin Corporation is a lead systems integrator and information technology company based in Bethesda, Maryland. With some 130,000 employees worldwide, it is involved in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services.

The company operates in aeronautics, electronic systems, integrated systems and solutions, space systems, and technology services.

Some 80% of Lockheed Martin's business is with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. federal government agencies. Lockheed Martin Corporation was formed in March 1995 with the merger of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation, two of the world's premier technology companies.

Summitek Instruments

CrypKey client Summitek Instruments of Englewood, Colorado develops RF and microwave test equipment for the wireless telecommunications industry.

The company develops intelligent instruments for interference reduction - generally, instruments that perform extremely difficult and complex measurements but which can be quickly learned and used by lower skilled personnel than with prior or existing test methods. Summitek addresses the labor shortage issue and at the same time reduces test costs.

Summitek's first product was a Passive Intermodulation Analyzer (PIM), introduced in 1996. PIM is known as one of the best and more innovative products in the wireless test equipment category and is the world standard for this difficult measurement.

Summitek currently uses CrypKey SDK (Software Developer Kit) to sell Oasis, a spectrum management control system, which is installed onto customers' laptops. James Brunner, Summitek's Director of Engineering, notes: "We use CrypKey (product) to authorize this software to a particular machine installation. This process locks the software to that particular machine. CrypKey SKD allows Summitek to sell Oasis to a particular customer and generate immediate revenue from it."