Hopefully you have now all seen announcements about Phoenix 8.5, a key part of this new release is Certara moving away from the old Sentinel licensing system, so no more activation codes !
Phoenix 8.5 and later versions, as well as the remaining suite of Certara software will require each individual to have an account at Certara Admin (CAD) https://my.certara.net Anyone may (and should) self register with their company email address at https://my.certara.net/register
https://my.certara.net/login?returnPath=%2F
There are 3 levels of user;
Normal : who may be assigned a named license to the modules they require, i.e. a user of the software. If they have already been assigned a license they can see that, or request one, which will trigger a request to the admins below
Product Admin : can administer that product e.g. Phoenix license, we would suggest this might be granted to e.g. a department head
Global Admin : can administer any purchased product license, this might typically be an IT admin.
This central website will become the common sign in to all things Certara, Note that a ‘normal’ user, even without an active license, can access the various reference resources including Product Help and Manuals, the Gabrielsson and Weiner e-book, etc. and this will be the home of the new forum too
More details are available Certara Admin Help | Certara Help Center and there is a Webinar here Phoenix 8.5 License Management with Certara Cloud Administration | Certara Help Center
Helmut., let me look into this - your account is a special one and I’ve not see this message before with any of the others I’ve onboarded!
thanks, Simon.
Wishing you all a Happy Christmas break and Best Wishes for the New Year
In 2025 we look to migrate this forum to the new central Certara Admin Dashboard
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Simon
As you can see the new forum is now up and in the next 2 months we will release Phoenix 8.6 which is notable in that we will deprecate some features;
PKS Plugin – Users of PKS need to migrate to integral before installing the Phoenix 8.6 release
AutoPilot – No active users currently. Existing projects can still be opened read-only.
Phoenix 32-bit Executable – 32-bit is no longer a market demand; legacy WNL 5 filetypes are 15 years old
ODBC Import – Outdated market standard for data migration that was no longer safe to use.
So if you have any concerns about needing to open a very old WNL 5.x analysis space then you may want to keep a copy of 8.5.2 available. thanks, Simon