Alliance Partners

Acrodex, a premier provider of strategic IT services designed specifically for large-enterprise and mid-tier organizations is partnering with Flexera Software to offer solution-based services founded on mature internal competencies in technology provisioning, enterprise software licensing, managed operations, IT infrastructure, network solutions, web application development, and project management. Acrodex differentiates itself in the marketplace by selecting world class products delivered through service excellence, flexibility, business value, and passion for our customer's success.

Avanade was founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture to combine industry and business expertise with the best enterprise technology solutions. Avanade provides the business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and deep expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Partnering with Flexera Software brings additional value to customers in application readiness and deployment, and software license optimization and compliance.

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.

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

Flexera Software has worked with Microsoft on a number of fronts starting with the development of installation standards for 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 7. InstallShield fully supports Microsoft's .NET Framework, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Windows Mobile platforms, and more. InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio 2010 is provided within Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 as the core software installer tool for Visual Studio developers.

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 7. 

Novell is a vocal advocate of Flexera Software's application readiness 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

Raynet is an innovative IT Specialist with a successful track record of more than 10 years in system and software management with emphasis on services around software packaging and software virtualization. Raynet has developed a standardized application packaging process, which includes analysis of an enterprise's application portfolio and its compatibility with other systems and versions, application packaging, quality assurance (QA), and rollout with an interface to the organization's distribution system. Their Rayflow workflow solution incorporates this process into a scalable solution to set up, monitor, control and automate Application Readiness.

As a Software Alliance Partner, Raynet is a European reseller of Flexera Software's market-leading AdminStudio Suite Application Readiness solution and will also deliver Rayflow consulting and training services to its AdminStudio customers.

RES Software, a leader in dynamic desktop solutions, is driving a transformation in the way organizations manage, maintain and reduce the cost of their desktop infrastructure. The RES Software award-winning, patented products enable IT professionals to manage and deliver secure, personalized and compliant desktops independent of the underlying computing infrastructure – thin clients, virtual desktops, physical desktops, or server-based computing environments. The company empowers customers, from small to medium-sized businesses to global enterprises, to reduce desktop complexity and meet the essential needs of a dynamic workforce that requires on-demand access to their personalized workspaces.

With a primary focus on using world class products to deliver application readiness solutions, Road Map Technologies selected Flexera Software's AdminStudio to combine with their strong technical skills and extensive hands-on application packaging and integration experience to deliver practical solutions for enterprises using Windows Installer (MSI), Application-Virtualization (App-V / ThinApp) and Citrix XenApp technologies.

roi Software Solutions is a professional software licensing consulting practice partnering with Flexera focused on educating and providing expertise on optimizing software assets and software license compliancy including Enterprise Software Analysis, Microsoft Volume Licensing, Reseller Selection, Legal & Compliance Assurance.

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.

Symantec and Flexera Software have teamed up to provide Symantec systems management customers with a new product offering – AdminStudio for Symantec. This product is specifically developed for users of Altiris management suites and existing Wise Package Studio users. AdminStudio for Symantec is a branded version of Flexera Software's AdminStudio, the industry-leading, world-class product that powers an enterprise's Application Readiness process and day-to-day application packaging operations. Get more information on Symantec's management suites, and learn more about migrating to AdminStudio.

VDX is a premier consulting company specializing in creating flexible desktop and datacenter solutions for our clients. The VDX award-winning team of consultants brings over 20 years of experience in creating highly-adaptive end to end solutions that meet the complex demands of our clients' organizations. At VDX we specialize in leveraging emerging technologies to solve critical business challenges. Our proven delivery methodology ensures rapid, seamless integration between physical and virtual environments. The result is the transformation to a highly adaptive and optimized environment.

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.