Alliance Partner List

Akamai® provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been adopted by the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's global network of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed online. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, interact, and collaborate. To experience The Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com.  

Akamai Electronic Software Delivery, which has direct integration into Flexera Software’s FlexNet Operations On Demand Solution, turns the Internet into a reliable, predictable, and effective platform for delivery of software content on-demand. The Electronic Software Delivery solution is built on Akamai’s EdgePlatform – a massive network of over 40,000+ servers in more than 1,100 networks, in over 70 countries, controlled by network intelligence systems that route requests, balance load, and ensure 100% uptime. Maximum performance with quantifiable results for end users is ensured without a costly hardware build-out and enables enterprises to optimize the software delivery solution to ensure end-users are getting the right download experience.

Arxan Technologies Inc. is the leading provider of application hardening solutions designed to protect software applications from tampering and piracy to minimize risk and maximize profitability. Arxan’s advanced software protection solutions secure ISVs, digital media and enterprises against unauthorized use, malware insertion, piracy, and reverse engineering of intellectual property. Our products defend, detect and react to attacks through a threat-based, customizable approach that is proven, easy to use and non-disruptive.

Arxan has partnered with the license-management leader Flexera Software to build a seamless and easy-to-use application protection solution, GuardIT for FlexNet Publisher. GuardIT for FlexNet Publisher helps curb piracy-related revenue loss by safeguarding the integrity of licensing technology against tampering and piracy. FlexNet Publisher has long enabled software producers to prevent unauthorized usage without negatively impacting the end user’s experience. Now, combined with Arxan’s industry-leading software protection technology, software-driven businesses can have unprecedented security against software piracy with GuardIT for FlexNet Publisher.

Founded in 2001, Arxan Technologies has offices in Bethesda, San Francisco, London, New York, Dallas, Boston, Chicago and West Lafayette, Ind. For more information, please visit www.arxan.com.

Flexera Software and Borland have enjoyed a long-standing development partnership. Flexera Software has created multiple InstallShield Limited Edition products for inclusion in such Borland offerings as C++Builder® Studio, Delphi™ Studio, and C#Builder™ for the Microsoft .NET Framework. The companies continue to work together to provide the latest limited edition products to their joint customers.

Citrix® Systems Inc. has selected AdminStudio® software packaging product as a recommended tool for packaging applications for delivery via Citrix XenApp™, the de facto standard for delivering Windows applications at a lower cost. The result of a collaborative effort by both companies, the integration makes it easier for customers to use the application virtualization capabilities of Citrix. By using the two programs together, Citrix and Flexera Software customers can benefit from the time and cost savings of being able to employ virtualization technology over their networks.

For further information, please visit http://www.citrix.com/.

Compingo offers powerful multi-level protection built around Flexera Software FlexNet technology and designed for developers and publishers who wish to protect their applications, software and files against piracy and casual copying - whatever the distribution method or stage of development.

Compingo enables publishers to protect and securely distribute software, which can then be activated for use in a PC without human intervention with either an activation code or credit card number. Once activated the product cannot be copied and can also be time limited for subscription purposes.

This means that publishers can increase revenues by creatively marketing and selling their protected products whatever the means of distribution, safe in the knowledge that the product cannot be copied.

"COMPINGO is developed in partnership with Flexera Software and is built around the tried and tested FlexNet platform, offering unbeatable protection with the flexibility and management tools of COMPINGO. Through this strong partnership with Flexera Software, we continue to develop COMPINGO with functionality such as: Credit card activation, License management , Try & buy, and Dongle replacement."
Paul Haidon, Managing Director, Compingo.

For further information, please visit http://www.compingo.co.uk/.

Freescale is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies and specializes in the design and manufacture of embedded silicon for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking, and wireless markets.

For further information, please visit http://www.freescale.com/.

Flexera Software and HP have partnered to deliver world-class application repackaging services. In addition to HP's selection of AdminStudio as its preferred packaging tool, the two companies also collaborate on providing consulting and training services that serve and educate customers on best practices for repackaging, Microsoft Windows Installer education, and AdminStudio product training. The companies have also closely collaborated on InstallShield X to ensure streamlined software installations on HP-UX. HP also offers FlexNet Manager as part of its License Management Services.

IBM and Flexera Software are working to develop InstallShield for IBM Solution Installation to provide a common approach to software packaging. This new functionality supports IBM's new Solution Installation for Autonomic Computing, allowing developers to more efficiently deploy and maintain their applications across a wide variety of platforms.

"As an IBM Business Partner InstallShield has been a key contributor in forming this standard for software installation. Solution Installation for Autonomic Computing enables developers to cut time-to-market and development costs while enabling customers to achieve error-free software configurations."
Alan Ganek, Vice President, Autonomic Computing, IBM Corporation

Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the “ingredients” of computers, servers and networking and communications products.

For further information, please visit http://www.intel.com/.

LANDesk Software is an industry leading provider of integrated desktop, server and mobile device management software. Flexera Software and LANDesk collaborate to deliver industry standard pre-deployment application packaging and preparation technologies to enterprises that rely on LANDesk's Management solutions. LANDesk has standardized on AdminStudio as a packaging solution and resells it as a complement to the LANDesk Management Suite. AdminStudio users easily create conflict-free Windows Installer software packages and hand them off for distribution by the LANDesk Management Suite, via AdminStudio's LANDesk Distribution Wizard.

MarketShare, Inc. is a management consultancy that, since its founding in 1982, has specialized in the technology industry, particularly software. The company's focus is on pricing - helping clients generate increased revenue, profit, and cash flow from the products & services they sell and from the professionals who sell them.
MarketShare has extensive experience working with vendors that use FlexNet licensing platform. MarketShare helps companies deal with a wide variety of pricing issues, including: pricing for usage- or term-based subscriptions, getting ready for subscription pricing models, and creating pricing frameworks that better align prices with value delivered.

For further information, please visit http://www.softwarepricing.com/ or contact MarketShare at info@softwarepricing.com.

Flexera Software has worked with Microsoft on a number of fronts, from the development of installation standards since Windows 95. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Visual Studio Integrated and Windows Embedded Partner, Flexera Software works closely with Microsoft to anticipate and fully meet the needs of systems administrators and software developers. InstallShield is the industry standard for authoring installations for all Windows platforms, including Windows Vista. Microsoft has also named AdminStudio as their preferred software packaging solution for creating reliable software packages for deployment with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and migrating applications to Windows Vista. InstallShield fully supports Microsoft’s .NET Framework, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Windows Mobile platforms, and more.

Nexstra provides comprehensive, outsourced, production-on-demand physical fulfillment services for enterprise customers that use FLEXnet Delivery (formerly SubscribeNet). Nexstra’s sCommerce system is tightly integrated into FLEXnet Delivery and provides many varied solutions to problems facing enterprise class software vendors. For example, as a customer enters an ecommerce store, customer license information can be accessed to dynamically create a unique product catalog; the integration with the FLEXnet Delivery software repository can be used to automatically drive the creation of media as orders are submitted; and software licenses can be sold via online stores and the entitlement can be automatically pushed into FLEXnet Delivery.

Nexstra’s sCommerce system has all the functionality needed for compliance with corporate governance requirements.

Nexstra’s customers have realized significant cost savings by dramatically reducing the expense of physical fulfillment, and at the same time maintained complete customer access to all tangible products.

For further information, please visit http://www.nexstra.com.

Novell is a vocal advocate of Flexera Software's application management and preparation solutions and services. Jointly, the two companies have developed a custom edition of AdminStudio that ships with Novell's ZENWorks enterprise lifecycle management solutions. Flexera Software is dedicated to assisting Novell customers prepare and deploy reliable applications through ongoing technology development efforts with the ZENWorks engineering team.

"The integration of AdminStudio and ZENworks provides organizations
with a seamless solution for packaging and distributing their applications. This combined solution will help enterprises improve the reliability and availability of their applications and greatly reduce their application management costs."
Rick Carlson, Sr. Director, ZENWorks Product Group

"Licensing is closely linked to the operational and revenue processes of any software company. Softrax's unique solution for contract renewal, billing and revenue recognition is ideally complemented by FlexNet's comprehensive licensing platform. Customers can reduce cost by automating cumbersome, manual processes, while opening critical new revenue opportunities. We are excited to see the two industry leaders forge this partnership."
Robert O'Connor, President and CEO

When you stream software applications, you avoid distribution, installation and maintenance headaches. With the Stream Theory platform, ISPs and portals create new revenue with games-on-demand offerings; enterprises save money with more efficient licensing; universities provide on-demand short-term rentals of powerful titles to students; and software companies provide trialware with unprecedented flexibility, speed and tracking. Software is becoming a service from the enterprise to games-on-demand. And Stream Theory is leading the way with innovations such as streaming Flexera Software-protected applications.

"Streaming technologies are revolutionizing the way software is delivered over private networks and the Internet, but the problem of delivering software securely and supporting a rich set of business models remains. We partnered with Flexera Software to both enable secure streaming of copy-protected software for FlexEnabled publishers as well as enable a broad set of business models. Now with the FlexNet platform, we have the ability to leverage a broad industry standard that allows us to deliver software securely and efficiently to the desktop."
Steig Westerberg, CEO

For further information, please visit http://www.streamtheory.com/.

Sun and Flexera Software are long-standing partners. The two companies have worked to provide a standard for application installation on the Solaris operating system. Flexera Software and Sun are co-developers of a set of Java classes called Solaris Web Start Wizards™, which are now integrated into the Solaris operating environment.

TI is a leader in the real-time technologies that help people communicate. The company is moving fast to drive the Internet age forward with semiconductor solutions for large markets such as wireless and broadband access and for new emerging markets such as digital cameras and digital audio.

For further information, please visit http://www.ti.com/.

Flexera Software and VMware have collaborated to provide tight integration between VMware Workstation and AdminStudio, enabling systems administrators to automatically launch a clean repackaging session. The companies also participate in joint marketing initiatives.