Automated user account creation and provisioning is the process of managing access to programs and applications. By moving to an automated process, IT support costs are reduced. Rapid user onboarding improves productivity and complete, automated account removal saves license costs and improves security posture. With Flexera, you can automate an approval-driven, self-service request process.
Automate IT Asset Lifecycle
Increase productivity by automating software processes
Manual IT processes and reactive strategies increase costs for your business. Reduce costs by automating these manual processes, including software requests and approvals. With Flexera, you can proactively avoid common resource-related issues such as unmanaged access to software, overuse of software licenses and license sprawl.
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Accelerate software adoption and increase ROI by automating key software processes
Automate request to retirement
Deploy self-service for hardware and software requests
Cost transparency and control are consistent challenges for organizations. Drive adoption and increased ROI with web portal shopping cart functionality; maintain control and cost transparency with predefined, multi-level approval workflows. Deliver approval notifications, including user tracking for requests and the approval process. Automate mobile device management and view cross-charge and show-back cost information per user and application.
Automate software harvesting
Reclaim licensing for ease of request
Flexera drives proactive cost avoidance by automatically removing and harvesting unused software. Reclaimed licenses are pooled for reuse so that procurement requests are only necessary when no licenses are available. Administrators can remove application and data access based on user role and governance policies.
Access reliable EOL/EOS data
Make better decisions with better data
Do you know which of your IT assets have reached end of life (EOL) or end of support (EOS)? Enrich normalized configuration items with lifecycle and migration information to help you make better-informed decisions about EOL and EOS software and hardware assets.
Self-serve software deployment
Drive efficiency and maintain governance
Governance and approvals for software continues to be a challenge for technology organizations. Provide a catalog of software applications with centralized access to let users easily self-serve, while IT maintains governance and control of software approvals and licensing. Make the enterprise app store for desktop, cloud and mobile applications a reality.
IT request to retirement
Accelerate adoption and increase ROI
- Automatically remove and reassign unused software
- Automate an approval-driven, self-service request process
- Conduct account provisioning and deprovisioning
- Increase service desk productivity and decrease costs
- Improve SLA adherence and IT customer satisfaction scores
Manage the technology lifecycle effectively
IT lifecycle management continues to challenge organizations with considerable manual effort, risk from outdated and vulnerable applications and governance for deliverability. Flexera provides complete lifecycle management of software and services from request to retirement. Enable your users to order the services they need, when they need them, from an approved catalog in a self-service portal. By ensuring that requests for resources follow the policies set by the organization, Flexera can help you control how hardware, software and cloud resources are consumed.
Automate key software processes
We are delighted that we can derive an accurate level of costs around our non-compliance and with the automatically generated real-time data reports, the company has the necessary insight to give regular updates to management and demonstrate tangible costs savings that we’ve been able to achieve with SAM.
Jouni Karkulathi, IT Specialist Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO)
Frequently asked questions
Automated mobile device management is the ability to enroll corporate and BYOD devices. This includes self-service download of approved mobile apps, easy access to installation settings for mail and Wi-Fi networks and secure deletion of data on corporate devices. With Flexera, you can automate mobile device management and view cross-charge and show-back cost information per user and application.
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Event
Join us at SAMS DACH in 2025
Join us at SAMS DACH, the ultimate event for software asset management and IT leaders, happening in Berlin on March 23-25, 2025. You’ll explore cutting-edge strategies, network with industry peers and gain actionable insights. Flexera will be onsite; stop by our booth to connect and discover how we can elevate your IT and software management.
We’re excited to offer complimentary tickets to the event exclusively for our customers. To claim your tickets, simply reach out to your customer value manager or account manager.
Webinar
Flexera monthly SAM best practices
March 6
Mark Bradley, Flexera Senior Product Manager, will drive the session and share his years of experience in SAM and as a licensing architect with Flexera Services.
Webinar
FinOps Best Practices
March 18
In this session we’ll look at the FinOps lifecycle and how maturity levels in different areas of FinOps can impact on success.
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