Alliance Partners

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.

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.

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you're trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com's global computing infrastructure that is the backbone of Amazon.com's multi-billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over a decade.

As an AWS Solution Provider, Flexera Software cloud solutions provide a roadmap for connecting to the cloud. From the enterprise to the software vendor – Flexera Software enables our more than 80,000 customers to connect their current infrastructure state to the future through solutions that provide a smooth transition to the cloud. Whether you are a cloud novice or expert – Flexera Software can enable your journey to the cloud based on your unique requirements. While the cloud offers many advantages, misuse of the terminology, and evolutionary requirements to move to the cloud have created issues for customers. Flexera Software's solutions bridge the "cloud chasm".

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.

Flexera Software has collaborated with Microsoft to develop and certify its software licensing solutions to run on Microsoft virtual environments.

Nexstra provides comprehensive, outsourced, production-on-demand physical fulfillment services for enterprise customers that use FlexNet Delivery. 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.

As a market leader in virtualization and cloud computing technologies, VMware is a technology partner for Flexera Software's software licensing solutions. Flexera Software is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner and has developed and certified its software licensing solutions to run on the VMware virtual environments.

Zuora is the global leader in Relationship Business Management solutions. Zuora delivers the subscription billing, commerce and finance capabilities that have become the industry standard to help companies transition to the Subscription Economy. Enterprises and emerging companies alike use Zuora's multi-tenant cloud solution to enable growth strategies, to streamline key processes and to provide visibility into the metrics that matter most in the Subscription Economy. Zuora services innovative customers like Informatica, Tata Communications, Box.net, Zendesk, DocuSign, Xplornet, Ustream and Reed Business Information.

Flexera Software and Zuora have partnered to empower application producers to implement flexible, trust-but-verify software licensing, pricing and billing models. Increasingly application producers are moving to more flexible, usage-based license models to address customer demands and to generate new revenue streams by entering new market segments. Application producers leveraging Flexera Software's compliance management solution can now easily offer the most appropriate and flexible pricing, packaging and billing options – including recurring subscription, pay-per-use and other pricing models, when they integrate with Z-Business, Zuora's leading subscription management platform, to automate customer billing. With Z-Business, application producers will be able to take online orders, and credit cards with PCI compliance via PayPal and other payment gateways – right from their applications.