Donglify

We purchased Donglify for our graphic designers so they both can access the one and only license dongle we have for the glass-printer’s software. In fact, that used to be a backup one before its predecessor literally fell to pieces due to heavy use. I mean, they used to physically reattach the poor thing from their colleague’s PC into their own every time they had a printing job. And that’s far more than a dozen times every single business day. Now, with Donglify, they don’t have to do that at all since whoever needs the printer can connect to the license key over the network. The printer’s software sees no difference at all. A great solution for a long-standing issue.

Our retailing company keeps all its sensitive data, including the customer base info, on a protected hard drive with 2-step verification. To get through you’ll have to enter a valid password and have a hardware security key attached to your device’s USB port. But all those advanced security measures will go to waste once any of those keys get stolen or lost. Looks like a big problem, right? Well, not anymore. We’ve got that Donglify app so our employees can connect to a key plugged into the machine back in the main office. And what was really great about said app is that it works just fine for the dongles we use.

Our company’s order processing center had been using a popular phone manager software for a few years until someone in charge came up with an idea to upgrade the license to premium. So now we’ve got a whole bunch of new awesome functions that can’t be accessed without a USB key and only two of those keys.

Spending a few thousand on extra dongles for everyone was way beyond our budget. So we’ve just connected one of the keys to sysadmin’s machine (for it’s always up and running anyways) and used Donglify to share it through the corporate LAN. And it’s a SafeNet eToken 5110 so we’re free to use the app’s multi-connect function, meaning that any employee can access the key at all times no matter how many people are already connected to it. Another plus point of the app is a totally self-explanatory user interface so we could introduce it with no additional staff training.

My software development team relies on Donglify every time we need to involve additional freelancers to speed up the debugging process. We use the app to share one specific hardware key, so all the temporary team members can use it to access protected software files. After work is done, we just wipe that dongle and boom! — no pre-release leaks ever. Worked with every dongle brand we’ve used so far. Sure thing, Donglify isn’t free. But it’s considerably cheaper than all those dongles we used to mail to our temps before. 10/10 would recommend.

I take pride in my work at I.T. support of a huge steelworks plant. With several thousand machines in my charge running on every platform possible and using loads of professional software, I was bound to deal with a minor, yet annoying problem. Dozens of license dongles that I had to carry around. Some of those are so tiny I’ve started to develop a phobic kind of thing about losing one of them from some magically appeared hole in my pocket. Replacement would’ve cost a tremendous amount of money.

That’s why I’ve been looking for a way to redirect all those dongles over the network so I could access them from any remote machine. After several days of thorough google searching and intense forum-reading, I’ve settled on Donglify. Unlike some other dongle sharing software, it works with pretty much, every dongle brand. Well, in all fairness, some of its advanced functionality, e.g. the multi-connect function, will only work for the top brands like Sentinel or HASP HL. Lucky for me, I hardly use those advanced functions in my day-to-day routine. What is essential, however, is that license keys don’t have to leave their safe harbor in my office and so the risk to lose or damage them is reduced to an absolute minimum.