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The total economic impact of Flexera One

To prove the impact of Flexera One on IT organizations, Flexera recently commissioned a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study of the Flexera One solution.

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Conquer complex cost with FinOps and ITAM, featuring Forrester

The rise of FinOps has helped many enterprises get the most of every dollar, but there’s still room for improvement between FinOps and ITAM teams. See how collaboration can optimize cost management during this on-demand webinar featuring Forrester.

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FinOps: The needs it addresses and the players involved

In recognition of International FinOps Day, we want to take this opportunity to make the topic of FinOps top-of-mind for those involved with their organization’s cloud journey. As Flexera’s State of the Cloud Report has shown year after year, IT professionals estimate that a significant portion of their cloud budget is wasted—this year the estimate is 32 percent, which is an increase from last year’s 30 percent, and the highest estimate we have seen in all the year’s of the State of the Cloud Report. Given this high level of waste, it’s not surprising the top cloud initiative in the…

Solution Brief

Cloud optimization

The cloud helps enterprises scale, be more agile, increase revenue and achieve business goals. It’s important for your organization to get the most from every cloud dollar.

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The future of IT visibility: Your business decisions are only as strong as your data

Flexera’s Mark Bradley and SoftwareONE’s Russ Eicholtz discuss the future of IT visibility and how it can benefit your organization.

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How to successfully navigate your cloud journey

Now more than ever, organizations are migrating workloads to the cloud to realize the benefits of rapidly scaling their business services in order to meet demand. However, navigating your cloud journey can seem daunting, and it’s important to go in with a well-thought-out plan. By dividing your cloud journey into the three phases of planning, migration and ongoing management, you can confidently maintain control. Planning is absolutely critical to correctly navigating your cloud journey.

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Identifying FinOps anomalies and opportunities

Learn how to quickly set limits to identify spend anomalies, find the right cloud savings opportunities, and discover how Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization has been enhanced.

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A Total Economic Impact™ Study of Flexera One, featuring Forrester

Forrester’s Byron Ramirez and Flexera’s Kevin Miller discuss the results of the recently commissioned Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study of Flexera One.

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Rightsize your 2023 IT budget for an uncertain economy

With concerns about recession, supply chain, Ukraine and more, getting the budget right will be a test. Flexera’s Conal Gallagher and Mark Delisi discuss strategies and tools for getting it right.

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Cost conscious cloud migration and day two operations

Cloud spend is a serious issue facing every enterprise—and getting the most out of every cloud dollar continually is critical. Join us for our Cloud Cost Migration quarterly webinar, where you’ll learn how you can set your customers up for success throughout their entire cloud journey.

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Tagging your way to success with cloud financial management

You may have read our previous blog posts about cloud financial hygiene discussing the importance of cloud financial management, the FinOps Foundation lifecycle and how to use key performance indicators to ensure you remain on track to achieve your goals. Throughout all these posts, one consistent theme has remained: you need to be armed with data-driven insights and a comprehensive view of all the assets in your multi-cloud estate. This requires a robust tagging strategy that underpins the success of your cloud financial management strategy.

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FinOps with Flexera: Cost allocation

In this webinar, we’ll discuss the critical inform phase of the FinOps journey: cost allocation. You’ll learn how Cloud Cost Optimization tools help successfully navigate this portion of the journey, as well as how you can customize it to best fit to your organization.

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When financial regulation comes for your IT assets

If you’re like me, you likely don’t have months set aside to pass exams from financial regulatory bodies like the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). I needed full transparency into the lifecycle of my IT assets to quickly meet the reporting requirements and action plans set by the FFIEC. This included the end-of-life and end-of-support status on the IT hardware and software across my IT estate. IT asset management (ITAM) professionals know the struggles of audits all too well. Whether internal or external, they’re a resource drain.

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Brewing better IT visibility for a global beer giant

Carlsberg Group was managing its IT infrastructure with a solution that didn’t provide visibility of the entire IT estate. Switching to Flexera’s IT Asset Management solution and partnering with SoftwareONE to operate the system, Carlsberg realized substantial cost savings and increased efficiency.

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IT spend and your peers

Ever wonder how your IT peers are handling the same budget challenges of digital transformation you face? Find out in the Flexera 2022 Tech Spend Pulse.

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Changing technology initiatives

With all that’s happening in technology and the world, how are budgets and digital transformation initiatives affected? The Flexera 2022 Tech Spend Pulse offers insight.

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Groundbreaking findings from the 2022 State of the Cloud Report

The Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report results are in—and everyone’s talking about public cloud adoption rates. Once again AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform are the top three providers. But for the first time, Azure has closed the gap with AWS.

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Are you still spending too much on the cloud?

It’s easy to see why FinOps is evolving and being adopted as a financial management discipline. The Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud report revealed that as cloud costs and wasted spend continue to grow, it’s more critical than ever to get a handle on spend.

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Keep your finger on the pulse of the most critical software vulnerabilities in the market

Hackers can deploy exploits in a week or less. That reality keeps many up at night—and given it’s nearly impossible to keep up with all updates for all software on your own, it’s critical to prioritize which applications need attention first. Understanding vulnerabilities A vulnerability is an error in software that can be exploited with a security impact and gain. Secunia Research validates, verifies and tests vulnerability information to author security advisories.

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FinOps Accountability and Automation: How to Get the Most Out of Your Cloud Spend

Whether your cloud spend is $5 million or $50 million a year, a common challenge for FinOps practitioners is getting your engineering teams to take action to control cloud costs. To be fair, IT teams face major hurdles in understanding application dependencies and lack visibility into licensing and cloud use, limiting the ability to act with confidence. With 89 percent of organizations taking a multi-cloud approach, the effort to correlate data and insights across cloud-native tools is just too complicated and time-consuming.

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What ROI are you getting from your technology spend?

You invest heavily in your IT. But are you getting a good return? With Flexera’s Business Value Calculator, you can see for yourself how you can better manage, govern and optimize your hybrid IT estate.

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Stay ahead of your software vulnerabilities

Your software estate is a world of vulnerabilities. Flexera’s Software Vulnerability Management can help you keep it secure and up to date by identifying and prioritizing critical vulnerabilities.

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Hybrid IT estates require broad visibility and focused optimization

Highly complex hybrid environments require IT asset management that lets you see your entire IT estate so you can realize the value of your software investments and make data-driven decisions.

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2022 Tech Spend Pulse: IT spending benchmarks and trends

As digital transformation continues to advance through organizations of all sizes and across all industry verticals, how these organizations prioritize, forecast and budget IT spend shifts as a byproduct of this evolution. The challenges these organizations face in forecasting and allocating their IT dollars are evolving as new and emerging technologies mature to address their transformational needs. This year’s 2022 Flexera Tech Spend Pulse Report, a continuation and expansion of our annual State of Tech Spend Report, identifies the latest IT spending benchmarks and trends.

eBook

Empowering Your Hybrid World: 3 Key Challenges to Consider

Learn how you can make the most effective decisions around operational efficiency and governance to support your transformation initiatives.

eBook

Building a Program Around SaaS and the Cloud

Learn how to define goals and set the milestones necessary for formulating a roadmap to strategic ITAM.

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Resolve Your SAP® Digital Access Challenges in Five Steps

Choose the most cost-effective metric for your SAP licensing.

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Five Steps to Resolving SAP® Digital Access Challenges

Download our eBook to help you to rightsize your organization’s SAP licensing and choose the best license metric for your indirect/digital access scenarios.

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Snow Cloud Cost free trial

Gain full visibility into your cloud bill within minutes.

Guide

A perspective on rightsizing your enterprise application software costs

This guide focuses on the four largest enterprise software vendors with guidance on ensuring purchased entitlements are being used in the most effective and cost-efficient way.

Guide

Technology is Limitless, Intelligence is Priceless

Determine priorities and investments across on-premises, SaaS and hybrid cloud.

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The Most Important Number: How many SaaS applications your organization actually uses

Learn which discovery methods are best for your organization’s goals and technologies.

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A CIO’s perspective on ITAM’s strategic importance in 2023

In this webinar, we discuss a variety of ways to help ITAM align, define, and shine in the current climate.

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ITAM & FinOps Tech Talks Series

This webinar series brings you insights from FinOps practitioners, data on focus areas, and a breakdown of key topics such as Unit Economics, sustainability, and stakeholder engagement.

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Webinar Series: IT Asset Management Best Practice

If you are new to SAM and want to make the most of your IT investments watch this webinar for advice on how to build a business case.

White Paper

Kubernetes Cost Management

Learn to identify key Kubernetes cost drivers and how to establish strategies for controlling and optimizing spend.

White Paper

Seven KPIs to Measure FinOps Success

Read this white paper to identify the best practices of truly exceptional cloud cost management.

White Paper

The Definitive Best Practices

This white paper provides a deeper look into the elements of a successful ITAM program implementation.

Guide

A Perspective on Rightsizing Your Hybrid Cloud Costs: The Shortcut to Cloud Cost Savings

Gain insightful and practical tips on where to start when looking at rightsizing your hybrid cloud costs.

Guide

The People, Process and Technology for your ITAM Journey

See how focusing on these essential elements are key to getting your ITAM program journey off the ground.

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Controlling Applications Without Borders

How organizations can gain back control of SaaS spend and governance.

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The High Stakes of License Management

License management and the broader imperative to improve IT asset management is challenging for many government agencies, particularly at the state level. A recent GovLoop media survey found that agencies at all levels of government continue to fall short of adequately managing software licenses in accordance with the demands of the modern enterprise. The consequences of ineffective license management fall into three main categories: fiscal, security and operational. Fiscal This lack of visibility increases the likelihood that agencies will overpay or underpay for softwar

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Cloud Migration and Modernization demo

With Flexera’s Cloud Migration and Modernization solution, you can optimize your cloud modernization and migration journey and reduce cloud costs. Request a demo today.

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Cloud Cost Optimization demo

With Cloud Cost Optimization, you can get the full value out of your cloud spend and easily reduce costs across your entire cloud environment. Request a demo today.

Solution Brief

Your business decisions are only as strong as your data

Technology professionals need clear visibility into their IT estate to rightsize resources, mitigate risks and power business strategy.

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Flexera One demo

Growing complexity in hybrid IT environments creates greater challenges for leaders like you. Flexera One helps you visualize your entire estate from on-premises to SaaS to cloud. And it delivers the power to mitigate risk, reduce costs and maximize every technology investment—so you can invest in innovation.

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Flexera One Select for Salesforce free trial

You know you have redundant Salesforce instances in your company. But how do you find and control these? With Flexera One Select for Salesforce. Start cutting costs with a free trial.

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Flexera One Salesforce Workspace demo

For many organizations, Salesforce represents one of the most relevant vendors in terms of spend. Discover how Flexera One’s Salesforce Workspace provides unprecedented insights into your Salesforce instance(s), so you can optimize your license position with extreme detail.