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Flexera Software updated the BI functionality to its latest release of FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises. New to the application usage management solution are predictive analysis for financial and license compliance with hardware and/or software changes, as well as new reporting capabilities like trend analysis.

Enterprise SAM specialists Flexera Software have announced the acquisition of SCCMExpert.com. System Center is a growing, popular platform and many SAM tool vendors are generating good business by leveraging SCCM data.

Weniger Komplexität und erweiterten Support für benutzerzentrische Konzepte verspricht Flexera mit dem jetzt vorgestellten AdminStudio Suite 11. Konkret heißt das beispielsweise, dass Administratoren Applikationen jetzt nur noch einmal verpacken müssen, um diese beliebig an Desktops, Tablet-PCs (Slates) oder Streaming-Clients ausliefern zu können.

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.

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.

An amendment to the 2012 Homeland Security Department's authorization bill would require the DHS CIO to tighten spending on and better inventory the software licenses the department purchases.