Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Licensing and Provisioning a Software Product Within a Cloud Based Computing Environment

A system to execute within a host organization, wherein the system comprises:

• a processor and a memory to execute instructions at the system, the system providing:
• means for receiving user input defining a plurality of features of a software product;
• means for creating a license definition of the software product based on one or more of the plurality of software product features, wherein the means for creating the license definition comprises:
• means for creating a plurality of platform license definitions that define functionality of the software product for a tenant organization;
• means for creating a plurality of user license definitions that define functionality of the software product for a user;
• and
• means for combining one or more of the plurality of platform license definitions and one or more of the plurality of user license definitions;
• means for storing the license definition into a software application depot hosted by a cloud computing service provider;
• means for publishing a record for the license definition in a selected management organization for the cloud computing service provider, the record providing a reference to the license definition and an owner thereof;
• and
• means for assigning and linking a stock keeping unit (SKU) to the license definition to make the software product available for purchase.

Non-transitory computer readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor of a system, the instructions cause the system to perform operations including:

• receiving user input defining a plurality of features of a software product;
• creating a license definition of the software product based on one or more of the plurality of software product features, wherein creating the license definition comprises:
• creating a plurality of platform license definitions that define functionality of the software product for a tenant organization;
• creating a plurality of user license definitions that define functionality of the software product for a user;
• and
• combining one or more of the plurality of platform license definitions and one or more of the plurality of user license definitions;
• storing the license definition into a software application depot hosted by a cloud computing service provider;
• publishing a record for the license definition in a selected management organization for the cloud computing service provider, the record providing a reference to the license definition and an owner thereof;
• and
• assigning and linking a stock keeping unit (SKU) to the license definition to make the software product available for purchase.