The portable licensing feature provides a licensing solution for customers who have a BIMcloud SaaS with cloud licenses and want to bring a subcontractor (who has a BIMcloud SaaS cloud license) into a design project: the subcontractor can use its own BIMcloud license on the customer's BIMcloud SaaS.
The following series of articles provides the user with a guide to managing this functionality and answers the most frequently asked questions.
Important: Portable licensing is available only for BIMcloud SaaS with cloud licenses. It's not possible to use this feature between a BIMcloud SaaS with key-based licenses and a BIMcloud SaaS with cloud licenses.
Bring Your Own License (BYOL) feature remains available between two BIMcloud SaaS with key-based licenses.
Definitions
- Host Company is a company that wishes to collaborate with other companies and therefore invites their members and grants them access to its BIMcloud SaaS.
- Home Company is a company that allows its members to use the company's licenses on another company's BIMcloud SaaS.
- Portable license is a standard cloud license set up as a portable by the Home Company's Administrator or Contract Manager. The license can be used on the BIMcloud SaaS of other companies as well as on the Home Company’s BIMcloud SaaS.