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White Papers
These expert white papers can help you analyze issues and formulate the strategies as you focus on the critical issues of your business. Find insights and thought leadership on software licensing, software entitlement and compliance, software license optimization, installation and application packaging and readiness challenges.
Six Steps to Continuous Application Readiness
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This whitepaper from Flexera Software outlines the six key steps of an application migration project, illustrates the major tasks within each phase, and explains how the Flexera Software solution can reduce the risk and cost of your application migration projects by providing a consistent approach to continuous application readiness.
Software Business Impacts from Machine Virtualization: Protecting Monetization in a Virtual World
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Machine virtualization has swept through enterprises, big and small – creating significant issues for both software producers and enterprise customers – and a wide “vendor-customer gap” in customer desires and application vendors’ practices. Learn how application vendors traditionally have placed the burden on customers to close this gap; and how today it is shifting back to them and the steps needed to close the gaps.
Keep Your Customers Close and Your Channels Closer
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This white paper provides five strategies for achieving customer intimacy and revenue growth. The white paper addresses the key channel management challenges and provides best practices and strategies for overcoming these challenges.
Helping You Leverage On-Demand Service
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Flexera Software understands that a secure data center architecture is the foundation of our on-demand service and of paramount importance to technology companies and their customers, and for our own operations. Find out more on the Flexera Software Data Center, which represents an investment of millions of dollars and more than 10 years of dedicated development to meet the demanding and continually evolving needs of our customers.
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Six Steps to Continuous Application Readiness
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This whitepaper from Flexera Software outlines the six key steps of an application migration project, illustrates the major tasks within each phase, and explains how the Flexera Software solution can reduce the risk and cost of your application migration projects by providing a consistent approach to continuous application readiness.
Getting Started with Application Virtualization
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Just what is application virtualization? How does an organization get started with understanding the basics? How can existing technology be used to accelerate an application virtualization deployment? Learn the answers from Leslie Easter, Principal Consultant, Flexera Software Consulting Services, and author of Bulletproof Installs and The Orange Brain’s Guide to AdminStudio.
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Helping You Leverage On-Demand Service
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Flexera Software understands that a secure data center architecture is the foundation of our on-demand service and of paramount importance to technology companies and their customers, and for our own operations. Find out more on the Flexera Software Data Center, which represents an investment of millions of dollars and more than 10 years of dedicated development to meet the demanding and continually evolving needs of our customers.
Increasing Revenue and Customer Satisfaction with On-Demand Service
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Electronic licensing is an increasingly popular and valuable tool for software publishers and high-tech manufacturers who want flexibility in the way they sell and license their software, while at the same time maintaining and enhancing control of their intellectual property. Learn how leveraging an on-demand service for your electronic software license delivery can help you increase your revenues and customers satisfaction while helping you better manage your costs.
Leveraging On-Demand Service to Simplify Software Export Compliance
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U.S. export laws regulate exports of all software, not just software that contains encryption. That is why software producers and high-tech manufacturers, especially those who are expanding into foreign markets, need an efficient and low cost way to deliver their computer software and updates, while staying current and complying with United States export laws and regulations. Find out more how leveraging an on-demand service can help simplify software export compliance.
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Keep Your Customers Close and Your Channels Closer
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This white paper provides five strategies for achieving customer intimacy and revenue growth. The white paper addresses the key channel management challenges and provides best practices and strategies for overcoming these challenges.
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Inevitable Events
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Learn how to avoid costly fire drills and substantially improve software ROI by proactively managing your Oracle licenses.
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Keep Your Customers Close and Your Channels Closer
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This white paper provides five strategies for achieving customer intimacy and revenue growth. The white paper addresses the key channel management challenges and provides best practices and strategies for overcoming these challenges.
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Software Business Impacts from Machine Virtualization: Protecting Monetization in a Virtual World
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Machine virtualization has swept through enterprises, big and small – creating significant issues for both software producers and enterprise customers – and a wide “vendor-customer gap” in customer desires and application vendors’ practices. Learn how application vendors traditionally have placed the burden on customers to close this gap; and how today it is shifting back to them and the steps needed to close the gaps.
Extending Your Software Revenue in a Virtual World
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Virtualization technologies are posing new challenges for software vendors to enforce their software license agreements using traditional software licensing models. Learn how FlexNet Publisher will enable software vendors to embrace virtualization by providing various means to enforce licensing on virtual machines. Also available in French and German.
Trusted Storage Unique Identifier Usage Guidelines
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FlexNet Publisher Trusted Storage Unique Identifier Usage Guideline White Paper presents an evolution of the various methods that FlexNet Publisher Trusted Storage has utilized to identify a client system to its server with an emphasis on best practice recommendations of using the Unique Machine Number (UMN).
Best Practices in Licensing
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Thousands of software vendors and high-tech manufacturers have successfully implemented FlexNet Publisher to reduce unlicensed software usage, enable new customer centric licensing models and improve their customers’ ability to manage their license assets. This white paper seeks to educate vendors and manufacturers on how to improve the quality of their software licensing implementations by providing a summary of the common issues end users face, and by outlining key implementation considerations vendors should bear in mind.
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MSI Run-Time Logging and Debugging
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The debugging techniques described in this white paper include investigating Windows Installer error codes, generating and interpreting Windows Installer log files, and using the InstallShield MSI Debugger.
Fixing Design-Time Validation Errors
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This white paper discusses different types of validation, including build warnings and errors, Internal Consistency Evaluator (ICE) validation, and update and patch validation.
Building MSI Updates and Patches
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Learn about the changes you make to a Windows Installer (MSI) installation package for it to behave as the desired type of update or patch. Available in English and Japanese.
Types of MSI Custom Actions
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Learn about the types of custom actions supported by Windows Installer, including launching executables, calling DLL or script functions, setting Property-table properties and Directory-table properties, and error actions.
Using Chained MSI Packages to Componentize Your Windows Installer Setup
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Written by David Cole, Senior Software Engineer at IBM, this white paper describes using chained .msi packages in InstallShield and MSI 4.5 to componentize a setup. You will learn how to include other .msi packages within your own so that the result may be installed with the appearance of being a single product.
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