The leader in Application Usage Management

Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today the release of AdminStudio Suite 11, the market-leading solution powering enterprises' Application Readiness processes for migrations to Windows 7, application and desktop virtualization, and day-to-day application packaging operations. AdminStudio Suite is comprised of AdminStudio, AdminStudio Application Compatibility Pack, and AdminStudio Virtualization Pack. This latest release helps significantly reduce complexity associated with the adoption of emerging technologies such as user-centric computing, virtualization and the cloud, while at the same time significantly increasing the ease with which companies can implement their software asset management programs.

Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today a new release of FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises. This release delivers new functionality further empowering organizations to move beyond basic software asset management to achieve greater financial control, savings and efficiencies through software license optimization.

Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today that it has received the Frost & Sullivan 2011 Market Share Leadership Award for Software-Enforced License Management. The Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Share Leadership is presented to the company that has demonstrated excellence in capturing the highest market share within a segment of its industry.

Established by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), ISO 19770-2-compliant software tags provide software vendors and enterprises a way of authoritatively identifying applications and supporting the complex software asset management and licence optimisation processes.

While everyone benefits, the uptake of software tagging has been slow. The industry has been mired in a chicken and egg situation - application vendors have been reluctant to invest time in imbedding tags because of the lack of take-up by enterprises, and vice versa. But it appears that the logjam is being cleared, making universal adoption a greater likelihood.

Software assets are historically difficult to manage and optimise, and it's costing businesses millions of pounds every year. The impact on a business associated with employee turnover, mergers acquisitions, divestitures and other organisational changes is well documented – but only recently have we seen the impact these activities have on one of the company's most strategic assets – the software running its business.

End users are interested in downloading applications to their desktops according to their needs, and they want to do so quickly and easily.

This is the belief of Tom Huntington, vice president of marketing at SweetLabs, which has created Pokki, an application platform and store for HTML5 applications for Windows. The goal is to help improve the end-user experience of downloading applications directly to the desktop.