Ascend with Flexera
Companies of all sizes are moving to the cloud, for greater flexibility, improved spend efficiency, enhanced scalability, and other benefits. Ascending from your on-premises Flexera environments to Flexera One and Snow Atlas, our SaaS-based suite of ITAM and FinOps solutions, you’ll get value more frequently with continuous delivery of new features and capabilities, save time and money with automatic upgrades, and eliminate the cost, complexity and overhead associated with managing your on-premises installations.
Flexera One and Snow Atlas
Introducing Flexera One and Snow Atlas
Flexera One is a SaaS-based suite of ITAM and FinOps solutions designed for the largest, most complex and demanding IT environments. You’ll get visibility and strategic insights into your hardware, software, SaaS and cloud usage and spend in one solution, using the next-generation data and analytics capabilities of the Technology Intelligence Platform.
Snow Atlas makes software and SaaS optimization easy with a focus on delivering the industry's fastest time-to-value and an easy-to-use interface, you’ll be able to quickly gain control over your growing software budget and discover opportunities to save money within weeks, or even days.
With the Ascend program, we offer existing on-premises customers three paths to take advantage of all that Flexera One and Snow Atlas have to offer:
- FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS) to Flexera One
- Data Platform (DP) to IT Visibility with Technology Intelligence Platform
- Snow License Manager (SLM) to Snow Atlas
Gain even more business value from every tech dollar you spend. Now you can achieve enhanced agility to advance strategic initiatives and cost-effectively scale your enterprise with our Ascend with Flexera program.
BOOST FLEXIBILITY AND EFFICIENCY
Accelerate innovation, elevate your enterprise
A SaaS-based delivery model transforms the way enterprises conduct business by harnessing its greatest power: flexibility. But flexibility isn’t just a benefit of SaaS—it’s a necessity to compete in today’s digital world.
We’ve aligned with this market transformation and simplified the way you conduct business by offering our on-premises customers our full suite of solutions through our Ascend program.
Now you can get IT Visibility, IT Asset Management, FinOps and Cloud Optimization and Migration at your fingertips to advance strategic initiatives across your enterprise. When you Ascend with Flexera One, you can keep up with digital transformation in a way that makes sense for your organization—when you want, where you want and how you want.
Manage your technology portfolio with unparalleled visibility and insight into your hybrid IT estate. Improve the efficiency and allocation of your technology and cloud spend. Operate cloud at scale. That’s the power of technology value optimization, which you can now achieve when you Ascend with Flexera One.
Expand your value
Increase visibility and
spend efficiency for your
hybrid IT portfolio
Improve your service
Boost productivity with
platform automation and
exclusive features
Reduce overhead
Eliminate infrastructure,
upgrades and administrative
expenses
Trusted expertise
Drive business outcomes with
powerful IT solutions and an
extensive partner ecosystem
Expand your value
Increase visibility and spend efficiency for your hybrid IT portfolio
Traditional ITAM isn’t enough—you need to manage spend and risk across SaaS, cloud, and your entire hybrid IT to remain competitive. When you Ascend with Flexera One and Snow Atlas, it’s easy to expand your IT management scope and enjoy incentive offers for SaaS Management, IT Visibility powered by the Technology Intelligence Platform, and FinOps, as well as special contract terms like dual-use and value ramps.
Improve your service
Boost productivity with platform automation and exclusive features
Customers with Flexera One Ascend are more successful than their on-premises counterparts because of the platform advantage. Increased automation and exclusive features mean increased productivity and the ability to focus on what matters most.
Automatic content processing helps ensure your data is always ready, and policy-based automation alerts you when something falls out of line. Utilize exclusive features like Oracle optimizations, flexible data access through APIs and unified dashboards. All of this helps you run your enterprise more efficiently and cost-effectively.
REDUCE YOUR OVERHEAD
Eliminate on-premises infrastructure, upgrades and administrative expenses
IT spend is shifting from traditional vendors to cloud and SaaS providers, but the goal of maximizing the value of your technology remains the same—regardless of where it’s hosted.
Take control of your infrastructure, upgrades, and administrative expenses. Hotfixes and minor updates are applied without intervention, automatic upgrades keep your system up to date, and content updates are applied automatically as they’re released. Flexera One and Snow Atlas are more economical to maintain than other vendors' solutions, freeing up your resources to focus on higher value tasks.
By moving to Flexera One and Snow Atlas, you can optimize your on-premises, SaaS and cloud spend and future-proof these efforts as your investments migrate to the cloud. The ability to leverage automated governance and financial controls lets you realize the ROI of your hybrid cloud strategy.
Plus, you can leverage our fast, low-cost migrations with built-in, quick-start offerings for new capabilities to save both time and money. And you gain access to our complete set of ITAM optimization capabilities across all major vendors.
How to Ascend
Many customers are moving to Flexera One and Snow Atlas because they enables the fastest access to the latest features, reduces risk, and increases visibility and spend efficiency for your hybrid IT portfolios.
Step 1: Identify your “why” Understanding what will provide the most ROI for your organization is key, whether it’s gaining better visibility into your IT asset environment, optimizing IT spend across a hybrid environment or reducing risk. Having clarity into your “why” is important and will help drive success.
Step 2: Build a plan Before building a business case and technical plan, it’s imperative to involve the right stakeholders, from IT management, operations, finance and procurement, compliance/risk and security. Our Flexera team is a key resource to enable a smooth transition to Flexera One or Snow Atlas, including Executive Advisors and Solution Architects, as well as our extensive services organization and partner ecosystems.
Step 3: Execute the move The move itself is easy. Data migration is typically completed within 24 hours of receiving your database backup, so you’ll begin to see ownership and consumption details right away. A full migration typically takes between six to eight weeks.
Step 4: Enjoy the benefits of Flexera One and Snow Atlas Once your organization has moved to Flexera One or Snow Atlas, you can expect increased visibility and spend efficiency for your hybrid IT portfolio, with faster, automated updates, cost savings and more.
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