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Manage licenses and users with ease? Challenge accepted

Announcing new Salesforce AppExchange Application updates If you’ve worked with Salesforce applications in the past, you may be aware that managing active and inactive users can be quite a task. Even getting a report of all installed applications and a list of the users accessing them can be cumbersome, especially if you’re managing multiple organizations. This becomes even more challenging when it comes to managing users that are active within AppExchange applications.

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I can see (my asset inventory) clearly now, with IT Visibility

Solving problems is nearly impossible when you don’t know where to start. Likewise, building programs and initiatives are even more difficult when you don’t have credible data on which to base your strategy. That’s why it’s always helpful to begin by getting your IT data cleaned up and then visualizing your issues to pinpoint problem areas to attack. But once it’s clean and curated, how do we view our data most effectively to make IT decisions? Sometimes we put our data into a business intelligence tool like Power BI or Tableau, and that’s a great way to take otherwise confusing,…

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How many FTEs should be on my SAM Team?

Many organizations ask us, “How many people do I need on my SAM team?” Although there’s no one-size-fits-all answer, Flexera does have quantitative data on the average and median size of SAM teams across more than 20 industries.      In the Flexera 2021 State of ITAM Report, we asked respondents about the number of full-time equivalents (FTEs) on their SAM team. The responses varied widely from companies of all sizes, maturity levels and SAM tools in use.

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Data Driven Cloud Financial Management

You may have read our previous blog posts Introducing FinOps and FinOps at Flexera: Our Journey to Cloud Cost Optimization.  In this next installment in the series on cloud financial management, we’ll share more about that lifecycle and how to use key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure you remain on track to achieve your FinOps goals.  Using KPIs to measure and drive success isn’t a new topic, but in a fast-moving cloud environment, it can be very difficult to establish the success or otherwise of your well-intended processes and actions without having the appropriate cloud fina

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AdminStudio: The Ultimate Patch Catalog

Patch catalogs can save you time and speed your ability to delivery updates. But even the best patch catalog can account for only a fraction of the updates needed to cover your entire application portfolio. AdminStudio provides the best of both worlds, offering both an ability to produce more ready-to-use patches than any catalog on the market, as well as the ability to address the many applications that will never be a part of any available patch catalog

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Flexera knows Kubernetes are in the IT estate. Do you?

Containers post a significant challenge for IT Many organizations now face unprecedented challenges. Employees are working remotely almost entirely, and IT needs to keep up with the demand for new devices, software and more. IT also needs to keep an eye on utilization, maintaining governance and optimizing spend. All these demands are coming on top of managing assets in complex environments as more disruptive technology enters the mix.

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7: What’s the cost of doing nothing?

This is the last in our series of Precision Planning blogs examining the key questions that must be answered in order to effectively plan your organization’s IT for 2022. “Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!” – Ben Feldman Why perform software audits: Profitable growth IT spend—particularly for cloud and SaaS—continues to increase year over year. In fact, the rate of cost increases often outpaces the growth rate of the business.