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The women honored on this year’s list pushed forward with comprehensive business plans, marketing initiatives and other innovative ideas to support their partners and customers, helping them through the uncertainty brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic. CRN celebrates these exceptional women for their leadership, dedication and channel advocacy.

However, Oracle doesn’t accept measurement data from all third-party tools; this is restricted to only a few select partners.

Flexera is a long-standing Oracle partner that has been continuously verified as a third-party tool vendor, which allows Flexera customers to evaluate their Oracle estate within our solutions. By using Flexera solutions, IT leaders can conduct a detailed evaluation of their currently deployed Oracle estate.

The honor follows a year of explosive growth for the program. Last September, Snow announced the launch of an enhanced partner program and completed the rollout in January. As a part of its new program, Snow works closely with partners to foster long-term relationships with their joint customers and provides expanded benefits such as new incentives, market development funds and advanced training.

“Snow’s partners are an essential part of our business and we view them as an extension of our team,” said Brian Allison, Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances at Snow. “The 2020 Partner Awards recognize the incredible work of our partners around the world, not only for their overall performance but also for developing innovative ways to deliver successful outcomes for our joint customers through a turbulent year.

The survey results are available in the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report, which can be downloaded at https://info.flexera.com/SLO-CM-REPORT-State-of-the-Cloud. The report explores what 750 global cloud decision makers and users are thinking about the public, private and multi-cloud market. It shares their current and future cloud strategies, often showing year-over-year changes to help identify trends.

A native asset management solution for SAP technologies, Snow Optimizer provides businesses with actionable insights into their SAP ecosystem. It can determine user activity, consolidate complex entitlement information into one unified view and appropriately manage accounts while addressing anomalies to increase overall value, drive return on investment and avoid surprise costs or audits.

Since joining Snow last year, Allison has overseen the planning, development and execution of a new partner strategy, which is reflected in the recent launch of the enhanced Snow Partner Program. A 20-year veteran in the channel, he has a track record of driving rapid revenue growth and establishing market leadership with his programs.

“Flexera has made major investments in our service and support organizations, and it shows in the feedback we’re getting from our customers and partners,” said Sean Doherty, SVP of Customer Experience at Flexera. “And now with the game-changing launch of Flexera One, we’ve never been in a better position to help our customers optimize the value of their technology assets across software, SaaS and cloud.”

Based solely on feedback from verified customers, Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice reflects reviews and ratings published within the last 12 months. Snow received 100 reviews – the most of any vendor in the market – with an overall rating of 4.6 out of 5 as of January 12, 2021.

Survey respondents are IT executives working in large enterprises with 2,000 or more employees, headquartered in North America and Europe, encompassing industries such as financial services, retail, e-commerce and industrial products. More than half are C-level executives.

“Enterprises are under enormous pressure to increase innovation and reduce IT spend,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. “In chasing innovation we continue to see a significant, some would say unsustainable increase in cloud spending.

Flexera, headquartered in suburban Chicago, uniquely serves companies that use technology and those that produce it. The company’s Flexera division provides IT management solutions that help enterprises maximize business value from their technology investments. The company’s Revenera division provides solutions that help technology companies build better products, accelerate time to value and monetize what matters.

In fact, mature technology intelligence – defined as the ability to understand and manage all technology resources – correlated to resilience and growth. Of the IT leaders classified as having mature technology intelligence, 79% were confident in their organization’s ability to weather current events and 100% indicated that innovation continues to be a strategic focus for their organization. 

Flexera and seven other vendors were evaluated for The Forrester Wave^™ based on 27 criteria grouped into three categories: current offering, strategy and market presence. In the evaluation, Flexera received the highest possible scores in the criteria of product vision, market share, commercial model, access and permissions, resource discovery and cloud platform support, and billing.

“In times of great change, it is more important than ever to maintain a connection among employees,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. “When you give your employees a voice, you come together to navigate challenges and shape your path forward based on real-time insights into what works best for your organization. The Top Workplaces program can be that positive outcome your company can rally around in the coming months to celebrate leadership and the importance of maintaining an employee-focused culture, even during challenging times.”  

The full survey results are available in the Flexera 2021 State of ITAM Report, which can be downloaded at https://info.flexera.com/SLO-REPORT-State-of-ITAM.

The report explores the thinking of 461 global professionals who manage and participate in ITAM and SAM processes in medium and large organizations of at least 1,000 employees. The report enables IT leaders to benchmark their ITAM practices and results against those of other organizations.

The growth of SaaS applications is exploding at most organizations, as anyone with a company credit card and an email address can purchase a SaaS app. Such ease of adoption enables the subscriber to start using the application immediately, often neglecting to check with the company’s internal policies.

This results in the rapid proliferation—typically outside official procurement channels—of SaaS apps throughout an organization. This is “shadow SaaS”, and it creates expensive and dangerous challenges:

“Now more than ever, technology providers and partners need to offer solutions that can quickly and effectively address significant business challenges,” said Brian Allison, Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances at Snow. “It is critical that organizations get visibility and insight across their software, hardware, applications and cloud investments, wherever and however those assets are being used. With the new Snow Partner Program, we are empowering our partners to deliver even better outcomes for our joint customers.

Reliance on the cloud has risen sharply in response to the global pandemic. A recent Snow survey found that 76% of IT leaders have increased their use of cloud infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, and over half increased their use of cloud-based applications. This surge is happening at a time when many organizations are looking to reduce or cut IT spend, making it essential for organizations to control and understand cloud usage.

“At Flexera, our commitment over the years has always been to help our customers get the most out of their technology investments, whether on-premise or in the cloud,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. “To us, being recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management, for the third year in a row is an acknowledgement. Just as importantly, we are not resting in our mission to help companies reduce risks and optimize the costs of IT.

“As organizations accelerate their reliance on cloud, complex hybrid environments are the new reality for many IT leaders, and Snow sits at the nexus of this transformation,” said Vishal Rao, President and Chief Executive Officer at Snow. “Crossing $100 million ARR reaffirms that visibility, optimization and governance across all technology is a strategic priority for the enterprise. Of course, we would not have been able to achieve this milestone without the continuous support of our customers and partners.