White Papers

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.

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.

This white paper, authored by Cris Wendt, a Strategy Principal Consultant with Flexera Software, explores the top 10 reasons why most software vendors and high-tech manufactures choose to buy a COTS software licensing and entitlement management solution.

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.

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.

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.

Spending time Sequencing apps for deployment with Microsoft® App-V™? Learn how AdminStudio can convert MSI to SFT 9x faster than native tools! Use this benchmark to plan your projected ROI with AdminStudio for your App-V implementation. Download the AdminStudio benchmark.

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.

This white paper discusses the benefits of software virtualization and the value of using a packaging solution that supports multiple virtualizations formats.

Learn how to boost revenue and build customer loyalty with fact-based conversations on software usage.

Learn how to increase software revenue using highly targeted direct messaging.

Thinking about building your own updating solutions? Read this white paper first!

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.

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.

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.

This white paper, authored by Cris Wendt, a Strategy Principal Consultant with Flexera Software, explores the top 10 reasons why most software vendors and high-tech manufactures choose to buy a COTS software licensing and entitlement management solution.

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.

This white paper describes how you can use electronic licensing to protect and enhance your high-tech devices as well as how to distribute updates and upgrades to already deployed devices. Also available in Japanese.

This White Paper outlines the business processes that make up the license lifecycle and introduces the five best practices for streamlining the license lifecycle.

This white paper describes the requirements software and hardware producers must consider when implementing a back-office electronic software licensing solution.

A practical guide to Enterprise License Optimization. Available in English and Korean.

Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment

A practical guide to Enterprise License Optimization. Available in English and Korean.

Learn how to avoid costly fire drills and substantially improve software ROI by proactively managing your Oracle licenses.

A practical guide to Enterprise License Optimization. Available in English and Korean.

Learn how you can more efficiently manage the lifecycle of your SAP® Business Suite licenses and make more informed software planning and purchasing decisions. Available in English and German.

Learn how you can more efficiently manage the lifecycle of your SAP® Business Suite licenses and make more informed software planning and purchasing decisions.  Available in English and German.

This white paper, authored by Cris Wendt, a Strategy Principal Consultant with Flexera Software, explores the top 10 reasons why most software vendors and high-tech manufactures choose to buy a COTS software licensing and entitlement management solution.

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.

What makes up a licensing and entitlement management system? Why software producers and high-tech manufacturers should consider an end-to-end system? Read how companies are approaching the issues of licensing and entitlement management and experiencing dramatic results. This white paper is also available in Japanese.

This White Paper outlines the business processes that make up the license lifecycle and introduces the five best practices for streamlining the license lifecycle.

This white paper describes the requirements software and hardware producers must consider when implementing a back-office electronic software licensing solution.

Software licensing has evolved from simple licensing into Entitlement and Compliance Management. This white paper describes how the core concept of software license management is changing from value-exchange model based on one-off transactions to an integrated model built on an ongoing relationship between a software publisher and the customer.

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.

This white paper, authored by Cris Wendt, a Strategy Principal Consultant with Flexera Software, explores the top 10 reasons why most software vendors and high-tech manufactures choose to buy a COTS software licensing and entitlement management solution.

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.

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).

Software licensing has evolved from simple licensing into Entitlement and Compliance Management. This white paper describes how the core concept of software license management is changing from value-exchange model based on one-off transactions to an integrated model built on an ongoing relationship between a software publisher and the customer.

Should software vendors and high-tech manufacturers buy a software licensing system? What are the benefits of licensing, and how are big and small companies approaching the issues of licensing?

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.

(FLEXible License Manager™) to License their Software

This white paper discusses the benefits of Merge Modules and the different Merge Module types.

Learn how to build customized uninstallers to control the removal of products and features.

Learn best practices for building installers in console mode (for command-line-driven installations) and silent installations (for working with limited or no user interaction).

This white paper discusses the fundamentals of installation planning and how to manage installation projects according to proven best practices.

Learn about the difficulties with attempting to develop UNIX installations using shell scripts, and how Java is being used as a successful alternative to shell scripting.

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.

This white paper discusses different types of validation, including build warnings and errors, Internal Consistency Evaluator (ICE) validation, and update and patch validation.

Learn how to automate the installation of the Oracle Client by using a custom response file that the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) can process and use to install the Client.

Learn about Windows Installer sequences and the built-in actions that make up a typical MSI installation program.

Learn expert tips for how to design an MSI setup to best prepare it for future upgrades.

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.

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.

This white paper describes the rules for validating MSI updates and patches and how to address any validation warnings or errors that occur.

Learn about several techniques and design issues to always consider when working with different parts of the Windows Installer (MSI) technology. Available in English and Japanese.

Learn about several techniques and design issues to always consider when working with different parts of the Windows Installer (MSI) technology.

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.

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.