Application Rationalization

Reduce application sprawl with normalized and enriched data

Identify costly redundant applications across your hybrid IT estate and view usage to better assess which applications should be removed to minimize costs and risk. Reduce your application portfolio complexity from distributed purchasing, M&A and technology debt with automated application inventory, normalization, enrichment and usage data from Flexera.

Complete, reliable data to reduce sprawl

HYBRID IT APPLICATION INVENTORY

Inventory and usage data for all apps

Without leveraging multiple discovery sources, it is impossible to get a complete view of your entire application catalog across on-premises and SaaS environments. To reduce application sprawl, the first step is understanding all the applications you’ve paid for and how these applications are being used. Flexera provides multiple discovery methods to help you get a complete inventory across your on-premises, SaaS and cloud application environments.

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APPLICATION NORMALIZATION AND ENRICHMENT

Rationalize app use with clean and enriched data

Cleaning and updating application data using spreadsheets is a headache and never-ending task. Flexera automatically normalizes and enriches IT application data with application categories and other details to easily identify application redundancies and minimize risk from outdated versions in use.

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USAGE AND COST INSIGHTS

Find app waste with usage insights

According to the Flexera IT Priorities Report, the top three priorities for IT leaders are integrating AI, reducing costs and mitigating risk. To help achieve these goals, compare common application usage and costs to determine which applications should stay, which should go and if enterprise agreements should be consolidated for better terms and volume discounts.

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BUSINESS SERVICE CONTEXT

Eliminate tech debt with context

To remove time and resource barriers for integrating AI, reduce technical debt brought on by application sprawl. To effectively make application rationalization decisions, you need clear visibility of application dependencies. Flexera helps you understand where your applications tie into existing business infrastructure and power organizational initiatives.

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CLEAN AND ENRICHED DATA

More data insights for strategic IT

Flexera combines the industry’s most extensive catalog of technology data and software use rights with multi-source asset discovery data to deliver comprehensive IT visibility. Our 98%+ normalization rates are best-in-class and give you a continuous pipeline of clean and consistent data so that you can improve your CMDB, ITSM, security, and enterprise architecture tools.

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Using data from Snow Atlas to complement the view of our SaaS sprawl helped us to mitigate our threat exposure.

Mpho Raphunga, software asset manager INVESTEC

Frequently asked questions

Flexera uses a combination of methods to assign application categories. One is using the UNSPC database. Another is using AI and AI-generated application descriptions to assign application categories. Additionally, our application catalog team manually curates application categories. 

Flexera provides solutions to rationalize your application portfolio for your on-premises end-user applications, on-premises data center applications, SaaS applications and cloud applications purchased via cloud marketplaces on AWS and Azure.

The method for capturing usage is based on the type of application (on-premises, cloud, SaaS) and the data available in various methods. Flexera utilizes multiple methods to capture usage data, including agents, API connectors to third-party applications (e.g., SCCM, Salesforce, etc.), SSO connectors, browser extensions and CASB integrations.

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