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Articles & Reviews
Read what the media is saying about Flexera Software and Flexera Software products.
| August 20, 2010 |
Less Pain, More Gain
Microsoft estimates that 65,000 organisations plan to migrate to the Windows 7 operating system (OS) over the next eighteen months. Patrick Gunn, Vice President ELO Sales EMEA, Flexera Software, discusses the best ways of taking the pain out of Windows 7 migration.
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| August 09, 2010 |
Microsoft's Latest Software Licencing Changes Add to Licence Management Complexity, Warns Flexera
This article looks at a recent Forrester report on ‘Five New Microsoft Licencing Twists That Every IT Buyer Should Know’ and the major shift in approach in software licensing models from a per device-based to a per user-based model. This will add complexity to software license and contract management and the best way to deal with this is to implement an automated software asset management process.
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| August 03, 2010 |
Top 10 Enterprise Software Licensing Mistakes
Enterprises tend to actively manage their hardware assets, but don’t always apply the same principles to software, which diminishes its value to the business.
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| August 03, 2010 |
License Management: Five Steps To Maximise Software ROI
This five-step methodology for implementing strategic software license management demonstrates the value of license sharing and usage-based purchasing across the enterprise. At each step unnecessary spending is reduced, under-utilized licenses are redeployed, and end-user productivity is enhanced.
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| July 28, 2010 |
Top 10 Enterprise Software Licensing Mistakes
Enterprises tend to actively manage their hardware assets, but don’t always apply the same principles to software, which diminishes its value to the business.
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| July 19, 2010 |
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.
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| July 19, 2010 |
Why traditional Software Asset Management (SAM) solutions don’t provide the detail needed for Enterprise License Optimisation
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.
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| July 08, 2010 |
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.
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| June 22, 2010 |
Taking the Pain Out of Windows 7 Migration
This article provides 6 best practice tips to ensure a smooth transition to the latest Microsoft OS.
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| June 14, 2010 |
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.
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| June 14, 2010 |
Managing Compliance and Software Lifecycles for Medical Device Manufacturers
This article explores electronic license management, a simple solution for medical technology manufacturers that can ensure regulatory compliance while delivering a host of additional benefits, including simplifying how companies bring their products to market and ensuring they can maximize their revenue.
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| June 09, 2010 |
License Optimisation
In many enterprises, SAP® Business Suite applications are the most highly valued and widely used in the company. Without precise management of software license usage, organizations risk duplicate users, unused licenses or misclassified users – increasing the cost of their SAP investment. 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.
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| June 07, 2010 |
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.
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| June 02, 2010 |
CIOs must demand alternative vendor licencing models for virtual environments
Don’t let software licencing be the boat anchor for virtualisation adoption
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| June 02, 2010 |
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.
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| May 17, 2010 |
Make SAM a board-level priority
Patrick Gunn, Vice President EMEA Sales, ManageSoft discusses the benefits of optimising the software asset management (SAM) process.
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| May 12, 2010 |
Flexera Software Buys ManageSoft
Flexera Software has strengthened their technology portfolio in the Enterprise level SAM software space with the acquisition of ManageSoft.
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| May 12, 2010 |
Why enterprise license optimisation is a priority to senior management
CEOs and senior managers relate to an IT department's costs-especially how much the IT department spends as a percentage of revenue. IT costs are increasing anywhere from 3 percent - 9 percent per year and this is mainly due to software. This means that unless the company's revenues are significantly increasing, unchecked software spending will drive IT as a percentage of revenue even higher.
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| May 04, 2010 |
Flexera adds to software asset management wares
Software asset management vendor Flexera Software, which has focused on data center systems, will add on Tuesday desktop software management to its portfolio through the acquisition of ManageSoft.
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| May 04, 2010 |
Coming to Terms over Software Licensing
In the wake of the recent economic downturn, tensions between vendors and customers over software licensing run high.
In the absence of real sales growth, vendors have launched software licensing audits to generate additional revenue. As the onus of proving compliance with the licensing terms falls on the customer, these audits create a lot of IT management headaches.
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| March 09, 2010 |
Enterprise License Optimisation: More Software at Less Cost
Although high-value applications, such as those offered by IBM, Microsoft, AutoDesk, Oracle, and SAP are more important than ever, many enterprises today face tight software budgets. Fortunately, a new set of tools and best practices, Enterprise License Optimisation (ELO) can help companies stretch their software budgets. Read more of this Enterprise License Optimisation article.
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| March 04, 2010 |
Control and Optimisation of SAP Licenses with FlexNet Manager
Existing licenses and future purchases need to be planned and controlled correctly. This applies to SAP user licenses and purchased functionality like portals or indirect usage. Costs have to be justified internally and charged back to departments or affiliates. FlexNet Manager for SAP Business Suite collects all necessary data from all relevant SAP systems and brings transparency to SAP usage. This increases security for internal audits and makes consumption based charge back possible. The article describes the respective needs of SAP customers and shows how FlexNet Manager for SAP Business Suite can ease everyday work.
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| February 17, 2010 |
The Measurement of ERP
License management is no longer nice to have, but now standard in every company. The software inventory must be documented and monitored and the use of each license must get tracked - for external and internal documentation. At any time compliance must be ensured and for reasons of internal cost allocation and reporting, a company needs transparency about which license is used in what division by what person.
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| February 15, 2010 |
Think Today...Change Tomorrow?! Your Step-By-Step Guide to Moving Today's Apps into Tomorrow's World
The adoption of Application Virtualization, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and the availability of Windows 7 create many new and interesting possibilities for the delivery of applications and desktops. Many organizations are on the threshold of a new or updated workplace concept.
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| February 15, 2010 |
A Little of This, a Little of That
Software-as-a-service, virtualization, multicore and "the cloud" - not to mention the worst economic climate since the 1920s - have changed the way businesses deploy the applications they use. They want to pay as they go and eliminate the "shelfware" problem by licensing only what they need when they need it.
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| January 22, 2010 |
Stretching Your Software Budget with Enterprise License Optimization
If your organization is like most, you're caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to software licenses. Your teams shout "more, more!" while your budget screams "less, less!"
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| January 19, 2010 |
Amazon EC2's Model is a Solution for Shelfware, Says IDC
Sick of overpaying for features they don't need or use, enterprise customers are eager for software vendors to enable pay-per-use models that better align cost with consumption, according to IDC Corp.
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| January 05, 2010 |
The SAP Optimization List - Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know
The high cost of ownership and changing requirements drive SAP users to seek optimization solutions. As users await SAP to regain its mojo . . . and implement it's "Voice of the Customer" strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity. In addition, rapidly changing business requirements require some users to seek SaaS alternatives, additional point solutions, and extensions.
Wang ranks Flexera Software as one of the key software license optimization vendors for SAP.
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