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Chapter 2
Background
This chapter lists some sample scenarios, the involved parties (who will come
in contact with the licensing framework), and then enumerates their interests.
To be able to create a working licensing model and infrastructure, it is important to understand the differing needs and expectations of these parties.
Finally, the combined system requirements are presented.
2.1
Scenarios
These scenarios are slightly modified actual customer projects, slightly altered to anonymize the customer and to simplify some non-relevant details.
2.1.1
Scenario A
Customer A manufactures large machinery and also services the equipment.
They have a backend system that handles all their manufactured machinery,
their component structure and technical data.
This data is administered
through a custom application, which is used by both employees of Customer
A and their subcontractors. The subcontractors can only see relevant parts
of the customer provided data, and naturally their own data, and manage
structure and drawing revisions of these. The customer employees again are
mostly responsible for consolidating the data from the subcontractors, and to
make sure the designs are valid and complete (including user manuals, price
lists and change history).
Retailers of A can access product information through a web shop (which
uses data from the backend) and place orders on behalf of their customers
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