Success Stories

Achieving a Cutting Edge Environment Based on Standards, Streamlining Processes while Saving the Firm Time, Effort and Budget: an AdminStudio and Workflow Manager case study 

With FlexNet Suite, Sybase has been able to achieve operational efficiencies such as consolidating manufacturing in-house, and closing its European distribution center. In addition, customers give Sybase exemplary ratings based on their experience in accessing and using the company’s software.

Foray Technologies is the developer of a comprehensive suite of sophisticated digital asset management and authentication products. Its custom imaging and chain of custody solutions are used by law enforcement professionals worldwide – a customer base that is growing rapidly, thanks to the streamlined licensing and entitlement processes enabled by Flexera Software FlexNet Suite for Software Producers.

Siemens Building Technologies Streamlines Inventory and Reduces Cycle Times with Flexera Software's FlexNet Suite for High-Tech Manufacturers.

A global Geospatial Instrument Company, recently looked to Flexera Software for an electronic licensing solution to cost-effectively differentiate its products and penetrate a new, lower-end market. Flexera Software’s Entitlement Relationship Management Solution (ERMS) comprised of FlexNet Publisher and FlexNet Operations helped the Geospatial Instrument Company achieve these goals, and more.

Visual Numerics, with its long history with Flexera Software and confidence in the quality of its products, found it easy to make the decision to switch from one product to another. The company began the switch to FlexNet Publisher by putting an evaluation team together. After a three month review of the product and documentation, Visual Numerics was confident that the change would not affect their customers or their engineering team.

MapInfo transformed its global licensing operations with FlexNet Operations and FlexNet Publisher. They have been able to implement licensing and entitlement management across their MapInfo Professional product line, broadening the licensing models available to customers without causing pains internally or to customers.

Using InstallAnywhere, Vitria now simplifies the process of creating installers for its software products. By reducing the time spent creating an installer by 75 percent, the company creates a simpler process that decreases time to market, overall maintenance, overhead cost, and resources spent on coding.

Flexera Software's product provided Freescale with a global, centralized license reporting system, in depth historical data at their finger tips and real-time responsiveness to changing business dynamics.

This Case Study from Flexera Software examines how one of the world's leading manufacturers of design software developed a licensing strategy to combat the threat of software piracy and license misuse. Faced with the ever-increasing threat of revenue losses from software license abuse, Autodesk determined that whilst a secure solution was urgently required, they needed to ensure that user-satisfaction was not compromised.

Achieving a Cutting Edge Environment Based on Standards, Streamlining Processes while Saving the Firm Time, Effort and Budget: an AdminStudio and Workflow Manager case study 

Unmatched SMS integration in a tool that is quick, accurate, robust and easy to use: an AdminStudio case study

Using proven toolsets to greatly speed the application readiness process, saving over $140,000 a year: an AdminStudio case study

Reducing costs and streamlining resources for an OS migration while meeting aggressive deadlines and handling complex application management: an AdminStudio case study

Comprehensive repackaging that is reliable, reputable and easy to use: an AdminStudio case study

Solving software conflicts, building confidence, relying on a proven toolset: an AdminStudio case study

Making enterprise-wide application distribution simple and straightforward: an AdminStudio case study

Saving time, money and staff investment with centralized cotnrol for packaging and deploying applications across diversion locations: an AdminStudio and Workflow Manager case study

Standardizing on application migration and management best practices across worldwide locations: an AdminStudio and Workflow Manager case study

"Our mission is to protect our customers from annoyances like spam, so we obviously couldn't have an update method that required too much time and effort for our end users. Not only is FlexNet Connect convenient and painless for our customers, it required minimal cost and effort to implement, making it a very good investment for us."
Alex Edelstein
Vice President of Product Development

"FlexNet Connect has completely streamlined our updating process, and the built-in reporting features allow us to ensure all of our end users receive critical updates."
Jim Ekstrand
Product Manager

"Before moving to FlexNet Connect, our customers had to proactively contact us to request updates. We really needed an update method that would be more convenient for our customers and increase internal efficiency, and FlexNet Connect completely solved this issue."
Anni Cuny
Senior Support Engineer

“FlexNet Connect offered a simple, cost-effective solution that greatly reduced our incoming support requests and provided us with detailed reports regarding update success."
John Gray
President

"FlexNet Connect makes it easy for us to deliver software and data updates to all our users thereby increasing customer satisfaction and eliminating costly support calls. It also enables us to increase revenue by understanding our customer's needs better and by enhancing customer communication."
Steven Huey
Director of Software Products

Siemens Building Technologies Streamlines Inventory and Reduces Cycle Times with Flexera Software's FlexNet Suite for High-Tech Manufacturers.

A global Geospatial Instrument Company, recently looked to Flexera Software for an electronic licensing solution to cost-effectively differentiate its products and penetrate a new, lower-end market. Flexera Software’s Entitlement Relationship Management Solution (ERMS) comprised of FlexNet Publisher and FlexNet Operations helped the Geospatial Instrument Company achieve these goals, and more.

Flexera Software's product provided Freescale with a global, centralized license reporting system, in depth historical data at their finger tips and real-time responsiveness to changing business dynamics.

Foray Technologies is the developer of a comprehensive suite of sophisticated digital asset management and authentication products. Its custom imaging and chain of custody solutions are used by law enforcement professionals worldwide – a customer base that is growing rapidly, thanks to the streamlined licensing and entitlement processes enabled by Flexera Software FlexNet Suite for Software Producers.

Mobility. It's one of the key factors reshaping organizations around the globe. As businesses everywhere embrace the notion of real-time, anywhere, anytime access, Nokia needs to be ready with its enterprise solutions.

With FlexNet Suite, Sybase has been able to achieve operational efficiencies such as consolidating manufacturing in-house, and closing its European distribution center. In addition, customers give Sybase exemplary ratings based on their experience in accessing and using the company’s software.

MapInfo transformed its global licensing operations with FlexNet Operations and FlexNet Publisher. They have been able to implement licensing and entitlement management across their MapInfo Professional product line, broadening the licensing models available to customers without causing pains internally or to customers.

Tenovis is one of the leading telecommunication companies in Germany and Europe, providing customers with complete hardware and software solutions for PBX switches and communication centers and services for telecommunication purposes.

Sonalysts, Inc. is an employee-owned business that has been serving government and commercial clients since 1973. Sonalysts is among the very few firms that has successfully integrated advanced technology capabilities of a defense research, development, and engineering firm with the creative talent of a full-service video, film, recording, sound and graphics design, and set construction/exhibitory business.

Foray Technologies is the developer of a comprehensive suite of sophisticated digital asset management and authentication products. Its custom imaging and chain of custody solutions are used by law enforcement professionals worldwide – a customer base that is growing rapidly, thanks to the streamlined licensing and entitlement processes enabled by Flexera Software FlexNet Suite for Software Producers.

A global Geospatial Instrument Company, recently looked to Flexera Software for an electronic licensing solution to cost-effectively differentiate its products and penetrate a new, lower-end market. Flexera Software’s Entitlement Relationship Management Solution (ERMS) comprised of FlexNet Publisher and FlexNet Operations helped the Geospatial Instrument Company achieve these goals, and more.

Visual Numerics, with its long history with Flexera Software and confidence in the quality of its products, found it easy to make the decision to switch from one product to another. The company began the switch to FlexNet Publisher by putting an evaluation team together. After a three month review of the product and documentation, Visual Numerics was confident that the change would not affect their customers or their engineering team.

MapInfo transformed its global licensing operations with FlexNet Operations and FlexNet Publisher. They have been able to implement licensing and entitlement management across their MapInfo Professional product line, broadening the licensing models available to customers without causing pains internally or to customers.

This Case Study from Flexera Software examines how one of the world's leading manufacturers of design software developed a licensing strategy to combat the threat of software piracy and license misuse. Faced with the ever-increasing threat of revenue losses from software license abuse, Autodesk determined that whilst a secure solution was urgently required, they needed to ensure that user-satisfaction was not compromised.

National Instruments lacked an electronic licensing solution, making it tough for their worldwide customers, such as Motorola and DaimlerChrysler, to keep up with licenses. With customers requesting license management, National Instruments knew it needed a more effective solution. National Instruments chose FlexNet Publisher, which enables software producers and high-tech manufacturers to flexibly price, package and protect their product offerings, as well as profitably manage licenses throughout their lifecycle.

BASIS International faced an ongoing challenge in keeping its licensing strategy secure given the considerable number of product ports. BASIS supports a variety of client/server platforms — from SCO UNIX, Windows, Linux, and other NIX's, to any platform supporting a Java Virtual Machine. BASIS literally supports more than 100 different product ports on various platforms. Managing the licensing of this dynamic and complex landscape became a growing concern. BASIS turned to Flexera Software solution suite to protect all of its software development products.

In considering licensing solutions, reliability, longevity and support for all SlickEdit platforms topped the list of criteria. On all counts, FlexNet Publisher stood out as the market leader. Adding to the solution’s credibility, key customers were requesting that SlickEdit bring in FlexNet Publisher.

Using InstallAnywhere, Vitria now simplifies the process of creating installers for its software products. By reducing the time spent creating an installer by 75 percent, the company creates a simpler process that decreases time to market, overall maintenance, overhead cost, and resources spent on coding.

Moai Technologies, a leading e-sourcing infrastructure provider, uses InstallAnywhere to deliver its enterprise-class LiveExchange and CompleteSource solutions to customers anywhere, on multiple platforms.

Here's how BEA, one of the world's leading software providers, uses InstallAnywhere to deliver flexible installation solutions to its end-users quickly and easily.

Infragistics, an established leader in providing components and professional services for the accomplished developer, relies on InstallAnywhere to install and configure its JSuite, PowerChart Server Edition, and LeadServer products to customers worldwide.

Yantra Corporation, the leading provider of distributed commerce management solutions, uses InstallAnywhere to deliver its Distributed Commerce Management applications to customers quickly and easily.

McCabe & Associates, the leading provider of software configuration management, defect tracking, testing, and quality assurance solutions to the software development community, relies on InstallAnywhere to install and configure its TRUEchange™ TRUEtrack™ and Release Rocket Verify™ products to customers worldwide.

Achieving a Cutting Edge Environment Based on Standards, Streamlining Processes while Saving the Firm Time, Effort and Budget: an AdminStudio and Workflow Manager case study 

Reducing costs and streamlining resources for an OS migration while meeting aggressive deadlines and handling complex application management: an AdminStudio case study

Comprehensive repackaging that is reliable, reputable and easy to use: an AdminStudio case study

Solving software conflicts, building confidence, relying on a proven toolset: an AdminStudio case study

Making enterprise-wide application distribution simple and straightforward: an AdminStudio case study

Saving time, money and staff investment with centralized cotnrol for packaging and deploying applications across diversion locations: an AdminStudio and Workflow Manager case study

Standardizing on application migration and management best practices across worldwide locations: an AdminStudio and Workflow Manager case study