Cloudsmith provides a platform for vendors to sell, license and distribute software as packages, handling all licensing and invoicing/billing challenges, making it convenient and easy for customers to access the packages they need from anywhere in the world. The traditional approach of distributing software through package repositories was limited by the need for vendors to manage their own infrastructure, but Cloudsmith solves these problems by taking responsibility for availability and scalability, delivering high performance, handling licensing and access controls, and enabling vendors to share packages in multiple languages and formats.