Software License Management and Optimization
Find and eliminate software waste
Wasted spend across an organization’s IT estate can be significant, ranging from 20% - 30% on average. Organizations using legacy inventory tools or spreadsheets can’t reduce spend because they lack usage insights. Flexera provides intelligent product use rights and algorithms that optimally configure your licenses to save you money, even for the most complicated software from your strategic vendors like Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle and Salesforce. With verified usage metering, you can identify more opportunities for savings, and cost avoidance across your end-user, datacenter and SaaS applications
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Leverage technology intelligence to remove license waste and reduce application sprawl
Software Asset Management
SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT
Simplify license management for complex enterprise applications
Enterprise application licensing is very complex. Without proper visibility, it’s hard to understand if licenses are configured correctly to optimize spend or if features (such as Oracle Management Packs and Database Options) are enabled but not being used. To save time and simplify the complex, leverage a product use rights library that automatically optimizes your software portfolio by applying product use rights such as upgrade, downgrade, second use, non-production, active/passive cluster, virtual and hybrid use rights.
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Application rationalization
Reduce costs and complexity from application sprawl
Stop renewing applications that aren’t providing your organization value. Spreadsheets and legacy inventory tools won’t help you find redundant applications across your distributed organization. Instead, you need one source of truth that normalizes inventory data, provides product usage insights and enriches application titles with curated categories for all applications (on-premises, SaaS, cloud) used throughout your organization.
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SaaS spend management
Identify known and unknown SaaS usage
Over the past five years, SaaS application spend has doubled, but organizations aren’t governing SaaS usage to reign in sprawl and risk. To effectively manage SaaS spend and identify risk, you need a solution that identifies the use of known and shadow SaaS applications, such as ChatGPT.
Better data, better results
Optimize with usage and product use rights data
Flexera provides intelligent product use rights and algorithms that optimally configure your licenses to save you money, even for the most complicated software from your strategic vendors like Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle and Salesforce. With verified usage metering, you can identify more opportunities for savings, and cost avoidance across your end-user, datacenter and SaaS applications, as well as applications in public cloud and containerized environments.
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Thanks to Flexera, we’ve been able to identify many licenses that we had already procured, which we could reuse for other services from our software vendors. When you consider that we have thousands of licenses, this quickly adds up to a significant cost saving.
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