FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications: Resources

Learn how you can maximize the value of your software investment through license lifecycle management, usage tracking and planning. Also available in Japanese.

Cut software costs and keep licenses compliant with centralized license management and usage tracking. Also available in Japanese and Korean.

Leverage Usage Trends to Forecast Future Needs & Identify How Best to Procure & Distribute Software. Also available in Japanese.

Manage Windows-Based Software Usage with FlexWrap Technology. Extend FlexNet Manager's license tracking ability with AdminStudio's FlexWrap tool.

The following article published in Data Center Management magazine details ways organizations can better negotiate with vendors to optimize their software spending and improve service to end users. Also available in Japanese.

Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about FlexNet Manager. Also available in Japanese.

Manuals for this product are available on the Flexera Software Product Support site for customers with current maintenance agreements. A log in is required to view the documents. If you don't have a user name and password for that site, click the "request a login" link on the site's main page.

Watch this IAITAM sponsored Webinar, with guest speaker Dan Griffith, former head of the Comprehensive Software Asset Management Team (CSAM) at Freescale, to learn how to leverage application usage data to determine optimal software mix, lower costs with effective peak analysis, and avoid and survive software audits.

Learn how your organization can achieve significant IT cost reductions in your datacenter environments. Software represents one third of the typical IT budget and datacenter applications are usually the most expensive component of software spend. That's why datacenter license and maintenance fees offer the greatest potential for cost-savings in the software portfolio. In this Webinar, you will learn how to meet these datacenter license management challenges while reducing ongoing software costs:

• Heterogeneous / Multi-platform environments (Windows Server, UNIX, Linux)
• Complex License Models
• Virtualization
• Complex License Entitlements

Watch this IAITAM sponsored Webinar, with guest speaker Dan Griffith, former head of the Comprehensive Software Asset Management Team (CSAM) at Freescale, to learn how to leverage application usage data to determine optimal software mix, lower costs with effective peak analysis, and avoid and survive software audits.

The 2010 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Survey, sponsored by Flexera Software and prepared with assistance from IDC, found that software vendors and their enterprise customers are looking for better strategies to derive more value for their organizations through software licensing and pricing business models.

Enterprises and government agencies today are committed to overhauling the way they manage IT spend, resulting in modernization, improved performance and lower costs. Software comprises from 20 to 35% of the typical IT budget so this is a key area of focus for potential cost savings. Join Flexera Software as we present an overview of our Enterprise License Optimization solutions that have been deployed by the biggest software users to achieve cost savings, control, and clarity. Guest speaker is Dean McCarns, Director of Navy CADD Systems, who implemented the Flexera Software solution for the Navy's AutoDesk applications and has realized over $17million in savings to date.

Learn how to determine your optimal licensing mix. Centrally manage usage data, contract terms and costs. Map product-to-features and organizational structure. Plus, see how you can now report on CATIA usage.

In this Webinar, Duncan Jones will explain, in his usual informative and entertaining style, how virtualization has made hardware-based metrics obsolete, and what asset managers need to do to stay in control. It will describe some common scenarios and explain the different ways that major software vendors treat them. Lastly, it will give some actionable recommendations to help attendees take advantage of the opportunities while mitigating the risks.

In this this Webinar, Amy Konary of IDC and Jeff Greenwald of Flexera Software will focus on ways to optimize the organization's software license investment including the why's and how-tos for managing software effectively. Ms. Konary will answer questions about the role of software usage measurements and other techniques to transition software management from reactive survival mode to processes that treat software as a high-value, high-liability business asset.