IBM license management

Manage IBM and RedHat licenses with ease

Flexera is uniquely partnered with IBM to enhance the customer experience for license consumption reporting with technology intelligence that drives action. Flexera One ITAM and Flexera One Select for IBM are the only certified IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) alternatives you can use to confidently address IBM licensing challenges.

Cost reduction, cost avoidance, productivity improvement, reporting improvement

Manage your IBM estate with confidence

Save on costs

Rightsize your IBM estate

Flexera’s SaaS-based delivery solution enables you to rightsize your IBM estate, improve negotiations with data intelligence, remove ILMT infrastructure and support technology systems and lower administrative costs.

IBM and RedHat-installed software recognition and license position

Gain full visibility

Report your actual license position

Flexera offers comprehensive support for managing your IBM and RedHat environments. With detailed discovery and clear visibility into hardware resource partitioning, software usage and licensing, you can reduce unnecessary costs, address compliance risks and improve audit preparedness.

Simplify complex licensing

Meet reporting requirements

Flexera delivers on-demand IBM license compliance reporting, including peak and current consumption, Cloud Pak VPCs, IBM product bundling, RedHat and containers, so you can meet reporting requirements.

Direct integrations

Minimize license requirements

Flexera One provides comprehensive coverage of IBM product use rights, complex metrics, PVU point tables, and integration with IBM License Service (ILS). As the only alternative to the IBM License Metric Tool, it ensures you have everything you need in a simplified view, helping you fully optimize your IBM environment.

With data from Snow [Flexera], I am able to have a much more meaningful and knowledgeable conversation with software vendors.

Natalie Cooper, Finance Manager Esolutions

Frequently asked questions

Flexera One Select for IBM is a unique offering that allows customers to purchase a lightweight version of our Flexera One ITAM solution to provide SAM insights solely to your IBM estate.

IT asset management (ITAM) software records and tracks the lifecycle of all IT assets in an organization. Leverage Flexera to proactively avoid common software resource-related issues such as unmanaged access to software, overuse of software licenses and license sprawl.

IT asset management solutions enable the monitoring, tracking and management of who and what is in your IT infrastructure. This visibility allows you to understand what components are accessible to whom and adjust manager control wherever necessary. With Flexera, you can also grasp end-of-life and end-of-service intrusion points of your assets, which can help you keep your IT estate up-to-date and ready to combat any issues.

While similar, ITAM and configuration management databases (CMDB) differ in purpose and goals. ITAM intends to provide an overview of IT assets, particularly concerning their lifecycle, to minimize security risks, reduce costs, maximize the business value of technology and make IT-related decisions easier. A CMDB is a centralized repository (like a filing system) used to store all an IT environment’s data. It is the fuel organizations use to monitor, track and manage all IT assets in one place.

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