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Chris Gahagan, senior vice president of products and solutions at Avid software, found himself in a situation that many software vendors can relate to. The company had grown both organically and through acquisition, and found itself managing five different product lines that utilized very different software licensing and entitlement management technologies -- some third party, and some home-grown. The strain of the multiple code-bases was increasingly felt throughout the company -- from development to customer support. In this video, Gahagan discusses the challenges Avid faced, and how standardizing all of their products on FlexNet Producer Suite was essential to help ensure long term customer loyalty as well as flexibility in the development process.

Ron Bauman, program manager for the worldwide licensing program at Citrix is in an excellent position to understand what's happening in the virtualization and Cloud environments and discuss the software licensing implications that those technologies create. In this video, Ron discusses 3-PC—the Citrix vision of the Personal Cloud, Private Cloud and Public Cloud, and the licensing models essential to enable that vision.

Flexera Software's director of product management discusses AdminStudio 11, the new version of the company's market-leading Application Readiness solution for Windows 7 migrations, and application delivery, remediation, packaging and deployment on premises, in virtualized environments and the Cloud.

Steve Schmidt, vice president of product management at Flexera Software, discusses the application compatibility and software packaging requirements to prepare for a migration to a new operating system or environment, such as virtualization. He explains how Flexera Software's AdminStudio can be used to help companies successfully complete these migrations and achieve continuous application readiness.

IT outsourcing is an increasingly common strategy that enterprises choose to increase flexibility and gain cost management advantages without compromising the quality of service. However, there are software asset management implications that enterprises should understand before choosing IT outsourcing . First and foremost, while responsibility for managing software assets may be shifted to the outsourcer — the liability for license non-compliance if that company gets audited, does not. This can create some natural tensions between the enterprise and outsourcer. Vincent Smyth, vice president, EMEA, discusses this issue, and what enterprises can do to understand the potential risks of IT outsourcing, and how to minimize those risks.

Amy Konary of IDC talks about "information as power" when it comes to software licensing use. Understanding how software is used is a critical insight to both enterprises and software vendors alike. Amy discusses what companies can do with this information to better their software license management.

Steve Schmidt, vice president of product management at Flexera Software, discusses the challenges enterprises face in getting the most out of their investments in software. He details the importance of data and value of understanding software usage to ensure continuous software compliance and optimizing software spend.

Richard Northing, senior vice president of global services at Flexera Software, discusses the latest trends in software licensing from the perspective of software and intelligent device manufacturers and their enterprise customers.

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Amy Konary from IDC shares findings from the Flexera Software survey.

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  Key issues and trends on the minds of software vendors, high-tech manufacturers, and enterprise IT executives and managers.
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Brent Pietrzak of Flexera Software discusses enterprise software license management best practices and how to optimize high-value enterprise software usage to software entitlements as a way to manage and control software spend.

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Chris Gahagan, senior vice president of products and solutions at Avid software, found himself in a situation that many software vendors can relate to. The company had grown both organically and through acquisition, and found itself managing five different product lines that utilized very different software licensing and entitlement management technologies -- some third party, and some home-grown. The strain of the multiple code-bases was increasingly felt throughout the company -- from development to customer support. In this video, Gahagan discusses the challenges Avid faced, and how standardizing all of their products on FlexNet Producer Suite was essential to help ensure long term customer loyalty as well as flexibility in the development process.

Ron Bauman, program manager for the worldwide licensing program at Citrix is in an excellent position to understand what's happening in the virtualization and Cloud environments and discuss the software licensing implications that those technologies create. In this video, Ron discusses 3-PC—the Citrix vision of the Personal Cloud, Private Cloud and Public Cloud, and the licensing models essential to enable that vision.

Maureen Polte, Vice President of Product Management for InstallShield shares thoughts on the value of implementing tamper resistant code with their implementation of the FlexNet Publisher software licensing in the InstallShield product.

Maureen Polte, Vice President of Product Management for the InstallShield product shares her thoughts on the benefits that FlexNet Publisher software licensing brings to the InstallShield product line.

Maureen Polte, Vice President of Product Management for InstallShield family of products shares how the FlexNet Connect Software Updating solution provides her deep insight into the InstallShield install base, including most used features, versions in use, etc.

Vincent Smyth, General Manager, EMEA for Flexera Software discusses the software licensing management challenges software vendors, intelligent device manufacturers and enterprise organizations face.

Vikram Koka, VP of R&D for Flexera Software shares insight on how high-tech intelligent device manufacturers are becoming more like software companies. He discusses the importance of software licensing, entitlement management and device lifecycle management for device manufacturers.

In this video, Tony Piergallini, senior principal analyst at software giant CA, discusses challenges in software entitlement management and creating a stronger link between their ERP and entitlement management process. Piergallini details CA's search for a simplified system to create a "source of truth" and their selection of FlexNet Operations to ensure a reliable linkage between the contract in the ERP system, the corresponding software license and entitlements, and the ability to report accurately on that information.

Flexera Software's vice president of technology, David Znidarsic, discusses what intelligent device manufacturers need to know to enable a SKU reduction strategy and leverage software licensing to grow revenue.

Constantly on the lookout for ways to improve the customer experience, EMC examined their software licensing activation process to enhance the customer experience. In this video, EMC discusses how, after they opted not to build their own software licensing and entitlement management platform, EMC's search for a comprehensive solution led to a selection of Flexera Software.

Andy Roth of Tekelec shares how software licensing and entitlement technology will provide Tekelec with long term agility, the ability to become more software-centric, and enable them to tailor its products to meet market needs, more quickly and efficiently.

Learn how CPU Tech addresses the unique security needs of their company's defense contractor customers, and how embedded software licensing and entitlement managmeent enables those users to access secure devices with confidence and in full compliance of security regulations.

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Report finds rise in blocked electronic software downloads to banned countries, increasing risk of export restriction violations for software producers.

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Amy Konary of IDC shares findings from the Flexera Software Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Survey. The survey, found that there is a disparity in software licensing enforcement preferences between software vendors and their enterprise customers.

Jason Ruppert, Director of Operations at Harmonic, discusses why they moved away from a homegrown software entitlement solution to a solution by Flexera Software. They did so to better meet customer expectations for self service and reduce internal costs of maintaining and enhancing the system. Jason explains the process they went through and the benefits they realized in doing so.

Amy Konary of IDC shares findings from the Flexera Software 2009 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Survey. The survey, found that enterprise customers are demanding more software licensing flexibility and options. This creates multiple challenges for software vendors - this comes at the same time they are trying to reduce complexity and simplify SKUs and it raises questions of whether their back end software entitlement management systems support such flexibility.

Jason Ruppert, Director of Operations at Harmonic, shares his thoughts on best practices on deploying a software license management solution. He describes the benefits to customers and how important it is for such a solution to be "invisible" to customers - simplifying the way customers do business with your customer and the added value that can be delivered.

Clare Dorney, Operations Manager at McKesson, discusses the business value that the company realized from deploying an electronic software distribution solution from Flexera Software. The company chose this route in response to customer demands. Clare also shares best practices and offers suggestions to other companies considering an entitlement management-based electronic software delivery capability.

Jim Geisman, Principal & Founder, Software Pricing Partners, discusses the relationship between software vendors and their customers. He discusses why each party is afraid to share data with the other and discusses the value of doing so in terms of improving vendor/customer relations.

Jim Geisman, Principal & Founder at Software Pricing Partners, discusses software pricing. Jim details the latest trends taking place in the industry, including a move to a more usage-based model, and the complexities this introduces for software vendors. Jim explains which metrics are most important for software vendors and how software pricing can be used as a competitive differentiator.

Shelley Davis, Manager 2 of Operations at Sybase, discusses the challenges and best practices for implementing electronic software delivery to their global customers.

Jim Ryan, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Flexera Software, talks about the value of information and business intelligence in software license management for both software vendors and their customers.

Jim Ryan, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Flexera Software, talks about the need for transparency in software license and entitlement management between software vendors and their enterprise and government customers and where Flexera Software solutions make a difference.

Brent Pietrzak of Flexera Software discusses how software vendors today face challenges on many fronts, including changing software licensing and pricing models, entitlement management inefficiencies, and software license enforcement in the age of software virtualization.

Brent Pietrzak of Flexera Software discusses why information is at the heart of software license management, software compliance, and entitlement management. He addresses how granular usage information can provide an optimum level of transparency between the enterprise and the software vendor.

Randy Littleson, Senior Vice President, Marketing for Flexera Software, discusses how intelligent device manufacturers are using software to differentiate themselves from competition and grow profitability, and how software licensing and entitlement management solutions can enable this transformation.

Randy Littleson, Senior Vice President, Marketing for Flexera Software, discusses the software license and entitlement management challenges facing software vendors and their enterprise and government customers. He points out how granular software license usage information will help bring the parties closer together in the software supply chain.

Amy Konary from IDC shares findings from the newly updated IDC White Paper sponsored by Flexera Software.

• IDC White Paper
  Read how companies are approaching the issues of licensing and entitlement management and experiencing dramatic results.
• IDC White Paper Webcast
  This webcast will provide a summary of the capabilities that constitute a licensing and entitlement management approach.

Amy Konary from IDC shares findings from the Flexera Software survey.

• 2010 Results & 2011 Predictions Webinar
  Key issues and trends on the minds of software vendors, intelligent device manufacturers, and enterprise IT executives and managers.
• 2010 Survey
  Get real-world data on the latest pricing and licensing trends and best practices in software and intelligent device manufacturing.