please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords . specific concerns may be found on the talk page . please help improve this article if you can . may 2014 this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . may 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message v.i. laboratories type private industry software software application software security founded 2002 products shipped 2006 headquarters waltham massachusetts united states key people dr. david pensak founder joseph noonan president and ceo victor demarines vp products and strategy bart hanlon vp engineering kevin ball vp finance jim nauen vp sales products software anti piracy data collection business intelligence website www.vilabs.com v.i. labs officially v.i. laboratories inc. is a privately held software intelligence company based in waltham massachusetts united states . founded in 2002 by dr. david pensak v.i. labs offers software providers solutions to identify track and create actionable intelligence on the use and misuse of their software to increase revenue . its codearmor platform is used by leading software providers to recover revenue lost to unlicensed software use gain compliant customers and globally reduce the pirated use of their software applications . customers identified more than 3 billion in revenue recovery opportunities in 2013 alone and are adding an average of 10 to 25 percent additional revenue to their top lines . its anti piracy and software license compliance products are designed to track software use protect valuable intellectual property found in high value and business critical software applications including products used for electronic design automation eda product lifecycle management plm and computer aided design cad and recover revenue lost to the use of unlicensed software and piracy . contents 1 products 1.1 software usage intelligence 2 partnerships 3 industry affiliations 4 accolades 5 funding 6 references products edit codearmor intelligence is v.i. labs product platform that enables software providers to capture the use and misuse of their software applications . the codearmor platform enables software providers to incorporate data collection tracking and detection of misuse capabilities directly into their applications as well as own manage and act on the resulting intelligence within a flexible saas infrastructure . software usage intelligence edit codearmor intelligence 1 2 august 2008 allows software providers to build threat detection and reporting functions into their applications centrally collect and manage data corresponding to the threats and centrally report on infringements for future action . the data is available to multiple parties within the software provider s organization such as legal product management sales and other compliance representatives through the product s integration with salesforce.com . alternatively the salesforce.com apis and partner infrastructure allow information to be directly integrated with other internal crm systems such as siebel sap and oracle . in january 2009 v.i. labs announced codearmor intelligence support for red hat linux . 3 in september 2010 the company introduced codearmor intelligence 3.0 4 with improvements to scalability for isvs with high piracy rates and enhanced reporting capabilities through the company s partnership with salesforce.com to help isvs prioritize leads . codearmor as per notes on the web appears to depend on detecting ip address and domain name of the piracy software user network . what would happen if ip used is dynamic several users of the same ip daily and domain name on a faraway hosted server as a marketing website only without any interaction in the day to day company operations of using the advanced software in may 2013 the company introduced codearmor control 5 that enables software vendors to automate an appropriate and targeted in application response to adopters of unlicensed software . of late small user pirates having understood the technology have started putting a wifi router in the path to the machine to use the filter of the wifi router set to allow gmail only . this way they communicate freely with customers yet sure that packets being sent to other ip addresses as any embedded code would do are blocked by the wifi router filter . an external filter is better than one in the machine which could be bypassed by smart software . partnerships edit salesforce.com v.i. labs is a member of salesforce.com s isv application partner program 6 enabling the company to bundle provision and centrally maintain a software intelligence dashboard for isvs . the partnership allows for the integration of various data sets into standalone and existing salesforce.com instances for greater information sharing throughout an isvs organization . microsoft v.i. labs is a member of the microsoft windows embedded partner 7 program microsoft empower isv program visual studio industry partners vsip program and participates in microsoft technology adoption programs . reprise software 8 v.i. labs and reprise software have layered codearmor software protection with reprise license management rlm to address binary patching threats faced by isvs . industry affiliations edit software & information industry association siia the software & information industry association siia is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry . siia provides global services in government relations business development corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 1000 leading software and information companies . electronic design automation consortium 9 edac the eda consortium is an international association of companies that provide tools and services that enable engineers to create the world s electronic products . eda is the critical technology used to design electronics for the communications computer space technology medical and industrial equipment and consumer electronics markets among others . federation against software theft investors in software fast iis the federation against software theft is a not for profit organization formed in 1984 with the aim of eliminating copyright infringement of software in the uk . fast was an early anti piracy organization to work to protect the copyrights of software publishers . initially concentrating on lobbying parliament to revise copyright law fast also prosecutes organizations and individuals for copyright infringement on behalf of its members . v.i. laboratories is a member of the federation s security products and services and software publishers groups . the company also sponsors the software piracy initiatives forum 10 spif on linkedin which was created for discussion and professional networking between isv employees involved in analyzing and addressing the impact of overt piracy and license overuse . accolades edit in may 2010 v.i. laboratories codearmor platform was selected by the software and information industry association as a winner of its codie award for best drm solution . 11 funding edit series a rockford capital june 2006 series b ascent venture partners core capital partners 8 million november 2007 expanded series b ascent venture partners core capital partners 4 million october 2008 12 references edit eweek tracking the crackers . prince b 2008 11 14 . retrieved 03 20 2009 . vi labs smartens up anti piracy . feinman j 2008 09 01 sd times . retrieved 03 20 2009 . itwire linux isvs gain tool to uncover lost license revenue . williams d 2009 02 28 . retrieved 03 20 2009 . informationweek software piracy tracker integrates with salesforce.com . schwartz m 2010 09 150 . retrieved 09 17 20100 . http www.vilabs.com press release v i labs introduces codearmor control enables software vendors to automate targeted responses to control unpaid use isv application partner program microsoft windows embedded partner reprise software electronic design automation consortium software piracy initiatives forum http www.siia.net codies 2010 winners.asp software boston business journal anti piracy software company lands 4 million in vc . noyes j 2008 10 17 . retrieved 03 20 2009 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title v.i. labs & oldid 741095269 categories software by companyhidden categories wikipedia articles containing buzzwords from may 2014articles with a promotional tone from may 2014all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search 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