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We help your business strategically manage application usage. Our comprehensive suite of Application Usage Management solutions - from installation and licensing, entitlement and compliance management to application readiness and enterprise license optimization - uniquely meets the needs of application producers and their customers by delivering continuous compliance, optimized usage and maximized value.
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White Paper: Six Steps to Continuous Application Readiness
This whitepaper outlines the six key steps of an application migration project, illustrates the major tasks within each phase, and explains how the Flexera Software solution can reduce the risk and cost of your application migration projects by providing a consistent approach to continuous application readiness.
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Event: UK Executive Briefing - Software Licensing Trends
October 8 at The May Fair Hotel, London, UK
Join Flexera Software for a thought provoking and informative session on how the latest software licensing trends are impacting enterprise organisations today and how these organisations are continuing to maximise the return from their software license agreements in light of these trends. Contact Erin Robberts on +44 (0)1295 814 011 to register.
Event: 6th Annual Strategic Software License Management Event
November 9-10, Hotel Hilton, Köln, Germany
Flexera Software is an evening sponsor at this event and will be delivering an insight into the day to day challenges people are facing with software license management and some best practices around software license optimisation. This is a German speaking event.
Event: CIO Dialogue
October 18-19, Beaumont House, Old Windsor, UK
This is an exclusive networking event for C-level IT executives from the public and private sector within the UK and Ireland to network, share best practice and discuss strategies to ensure IT continues to deliver real business value in these challenging times.
Event: Ovum Software Asset Management Briefing
September 15, London, UK
Recognising and Addressing the Need to Effectively Manage Corporate Software Assets
Flexera Software is a sponsor of this event and will be delivering a presentation alongside a key customer to provide some insight into best practices for managing key corporate software assets.
Event: DSAG (German SAP User Group) Annual Conference
September 21-23, 2010, CCN CongressCenter Nürnberg
The DSAG Annual Conference enables the German SAP user community to come together to hear the latest updates on the SAP technology as well as getting real world examples and advice on best practices and tips and tricks. Flexera Software is sponsoring this event and will be delivering a partner presentation alongside a key customer focused on SAP license optimisation.
Article: Why traditional Software Asset Management (SAM) solutions don’t provide the detail needed for Enterprise License Optimisation - FAST Iis Kaleidoscope
In this article Jeff Jones, Oracle licensing expert, looks at how traditional SAM solutions may still expose companies to compliance risks. This article looks specifically at how this can be demonstrated when an organisation tries to manage their Oracle licenses.
Article: HONICO & Flexera Software Annual Conference 2010
This article provides a review of the HONICO & Flexera Software Annual Conference that took place on 10th and 11th June in Kiel, Germany. This event was focused on SAP license optimisation as well as central process automation for SAP.
Article: Defeating the Dark Side of Virtualization Using Software License Management
Virtualization is on the minds of most IT executives and administrators for several very good reasons, including a reduced data center footprint, lower overall IT costs, simplified server management, improved IT governance, and a greener data center.
Featured Blog: Entitlement & Compliance Management - Talking Successful Software
Follow industry experts as they report on global trends and topics within software licensing and entitlement management
Webinar: The Fastest Way to Move Applications to Windows 7 (Europe)
Join Flexera Software, the leading provider in Windows 7 application readiness solutions, for a discussion of how you can automate and standardise OS migration and application virtualisation projects to ensure a fast and successful application deployment. This Webinar will explore an end-to-end process for Windows 7 and App-V application migration projects, strategies to reduce the cost and complexity and also, how a continuous application readiness process creates a repeatable and reliable standard for your next migration project.
Webinar: EMEA Quarterly Customer Webinars - Licensing, Entitlement and Compliance Management Update
Flexera Software is pleased to announce the launch of a quarterly Webinar series for our valued European customers.
Webinar: Knowledge + Approach = Power: Gain Control of SAP® Licensing and Spending to Maximize Your Return
Flexera Software welcomes David Blake, President and CEO of UpperEdge, a leading IT Commercial Advisory firm, as he presents best practice approaches for gaining control of SAP licensing and spending across the full sourcing lifecycle. Learn how you can maximize the return on your SAP investment in a highly sustainable manner.
Accelrys Enhances the Customer Experience – and Its Brand – with FlexNet Producer Suite On-Demand
The FlexNet Producer Suite On-Demand has helped Accelrys increase its overall customer satisfaction rating by 12 percent while reducing software distribution costs by up to 18 percent. The “try before you buy” integration with enterprise systems has significantly raised conversion rates.
Event: Secrets of Successful Application Virtualization and Windows 7 Migrations
October 12-22, 2010, Various locations in EMEA & U.S.A
You can learn all you need to know to move to application virtualization and how to have a smooth migration to Windows® 7 using award winning AdminStudio in this new 1-day Seminar from Flexera Software Training.
Award: InstallShield Named Best Setup & Deploy Product by Code Project Members for Second Straight Year
For the second straight year, InstallShield has been named the best setup and deployment product by Code Project members. InstallShield is the only product to have ever won the award.
Event: SoftSummit 2010 – San Jose Hilton – October 11-13, 2010
Join us at SoftSummit to have the opportunity to analyze, dissect and discuss the newest technologies and trends concerning Virtualization, Cloud and SaaS, Compliance, and Consumption Licensing.
Article: Guide to selecting a SAM tool
This article looks at the benefits of having a SAM tool and how to go about choosing which SAM tool to use depending on what your organisations requirements are.
Article: Taking the Pain Out of Windows 7 Migration
This article focuses on how you can take a proactive approach to Windows 7 migrations by following 6 best practice steps. (Computing)
Article: License Optimisation from E-3 Magazine
With Flexera Software's FlexNet Manager for use with the SAP Business Suite applications, organizations centrally monitor and analyze their SAP license usage to help ensure accurate and appropriate licensing. This license usage management solution provides insight into employee SAP use, allowing organizations to better plan and budget for future SAP purchases.
Article: CIOs must demand alternative vendor licencing models for virtual environments
Don’t let software licencing be the boat anchor for virtualisation adoption. (CIO UK)
Webinar: The Fastest Way to Move Applications to Windows 7
Join Flexera Software, the leading provider in Windows® 7 application readiness solutions, for a discussion of how you can automate and standardize OS migration and application virtualization projects to ensure a fast and successful application deployment.
Event: Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit 2010
November 17-19, 2010, San Diego, CA
The Gartner IT Financial & Procurement Asset Management Summit focuses on our IT Asset Management content as well as the tools and technologies that are increasingly strategic to the IT Asset Management discipline: procurement, financial management, ROI, among others.
Article: Enterprise License Optimisation Must Become a Board-Level Priority
Patrick Gunn, Vice President EMEA Sales, talks about the quantifiable business benefits of Enterprise License Optimisation and how it makes business sense to make it a board-level priority. Organisations that implement an Enterprise License Optimisation strategy can see savings of 15-20% of their overall software spend.
Article: The Software Licensing Minefield - have you got a license for that?
In this article Jon discusses how software licensing is complex and there is a need for a payment model that reflects actual usage of licenses. Jon is from Freeform Dynamics who are an analyst organisation in the UK.
Flexera Software acquires ManageSoft
The addition of ManageSoft's next generation software asset management capabilities creates the first desktop-to-datacenter Enterprise License Optimization solution for enterprises and governments. A single solution to optimize application usage for Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and other high-value applications.
Article: Flexera Software Buys ManageSoft
Flexera Software has strengthened their technology portfolio in the Enterprise level SAM software space with the acquisition of ManageSoft.
Webinar: Best Practices for Building Installations in Visual Studio 2010
Watch this Webinar to learn tips and best practices for building reliable Windows Installer (MSI) installations inside the Visual Studio 2010 interface.
Webinar: Machine Virtualization—Is It Impacting Your Software Business?
Join us for an interactive and informational webinar that talks about our latest white paper research showcasing the current market situation, discusses how the industry got into such a state of limbo and details the steps needed to ensure a positive outcome for you and your customers.
Award: ComponentSource Awards Flexera Software as Top 2 Bestselling Poduct with InstallShield and Top 4 Selling Publisher
Flexera Software collected a number of awards including top #4 publisher, plus top best selling products for InstallShield, AdminStudio and InstallAnywhere at the 2009-2010 ComponentSource awards.
Webinar: Best Practices for Building Linux Installers
Linux developers, stop building RPM packages that don’t install properly. Watch this Webinar to learn how to build professional Linux installers fast that install reliably on Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and more.
Webinar: Application Virtualization for Software Developers
Is application virtualization the future of software installations? What are the benefits to software developers of offering applications as virtual packages? Watch this Webinar and find out.
Award: FlexNet Producer Suite Winner in the IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards
Winner in the SaaS Category for Sybase Customer Reference. Sybase has transformed their way of doing business with their customers, enabling their customers to have a great user experience while ensuring they are using the latest and greatest products provided by Sybase.
Featured Blog: Enterprise License Optimization - Buy Only the Software You Need; Use Only the Software You Have
Follow industry experts as they report on global trends and topics within ITAM, SAM and Application Usage Management
Sybase Gains a Competitive Advantage - Are You Looking for One?
Learn how Sybase transformed its operations and achieved outstanding customer satisfaction levels with FlexNet Producer Suite for Software Vendors.