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Gartner IT Financial, Procurement and Asset Management Summit 2014
By John EmmittIn just 3 short weeks-- September 8-10, Gartner will be holding its annual IT Financial, Procurement and Asset Management Summit in Orlando Fl, with the UK event following shortly after...
View ArticleHow Long Does it Take to Prepare for a Microsoft Sftware Audit?
By Randy Littleson"30 minutes" was the answer provided by one FlexNet Manager Suite customer that has been using the product for 18 months.He added "that was the time it would take for the reports to...
View ArticleOracle License Management- Consider More than the Database Products
By Chris HughesIf one constructed their image of Oracle solely based on articles and commentary around Oracle licensing, they could be forgiven for thinking that Oracle has a single product—Oracle...
View ArticleSoftware Licensing: Move From Defense to Offense
Doug Henschen at InformationWeek has written a really excellent, detailed article entitled "Software Licensing: Move from Defense to Offense." The article really does a nice job of laying out the...
View ArticleManage Your Microsoft MSDN Licenses... Or Else!
By Mandi Sue Bleau, Senior Consultant, Flexera SoftwareMicrosoft Software Developer Network (MSDN) licensing strikes again. One of my clients was recently going through their yearly Microsoft...
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Software Audit Top 10 List
If you're an enterprise, you've surely been audited by a software company - likely many times. At it's annual IT asset management and procurement conference, Gartner shared insights into which...
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Top Software Asset Management Business Challenges and How to Meet Them
By John EmmittFlexera Software recently conducted a survey, with TechValidate, of our FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises customers. One of the questions we asked was:What business challenges was...
View ArticleUnderstanding Classic vs. Cognos Reporting for Managing Concurrent Licenses
By Pete JohnsonFlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications (“FlexNet Manager”) is a software asset management tool used to manage concurrently licensed (sometimes called network or floating licenses)...
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Webinar: Reduce Your Costs for Expensive Engineering Software
By Pete JohnsonEngineering software can be some of the most expensive that you own. Yet it is critical to delivering new products on time and on budget in today’s highly competitive environment. That’s...
View ArticleWhat is Software License Optimization?
By Steve SchmidtSoftware License Optimization (SLO) is a term used to describe a range of capabilities that complement traditional IT Asset Management and that provide organizations with the ability to...
View ArticleShelfware and Shrinking Budgets Fueling Dramatic Shift in How Enterprise...
By John LipseyEnterprise software spending is being squeezed, and as a result organizations are looking for better ways to align software costs to value. This is the conclusion of a new Flexera...
View ArticleNumbers Don't Tell the Whole Story
By Cyndi TackettThere’s a lot of talk in the industry about the size of libraries when it comes to application recognition, SKU’s, etc. This is all well and good and it’s important on one level (and,...
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Software License Models - What You Need to Know (Part 1)
By Cyndi TackettThis blog is part 1 of a series that will cover all of the common software license models in use today and the license management challenges presented by each type. Software asset...
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Webinar: Managing the Full Lifecycle of Your Software Assets
By John EmmittFlexera Software will be hosting a webinar on Managing the Full Lifecycle of Your Software Assets with guest speaker Patricia Adams, Research Director at Gartner. Patricia is the "go to"...
View ArticleWhen is Optimized Not Optimized?
By Cyndi TackettMany software asset management products in the market today talk about being able to optimize your software license position. However, not all are able to really deliver true...
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Software License Models - What You Need to Know (Part 2)
By Cyndi TackettIn Part 1 of this blog series we introduced the 6 major categories of software license models. In this blog (Part 2) we will delve into the Client/User category in more detail.Client or...
View ArticleLimited Product Use Rights Dramatically Restrict Your Ability to Minimize...
By Cyndi TackettWe’ve written a lot in the past about the value of Product Use Rights (see “Update on Microsoft Downgrade Rights”, “Product Use Rights are the Key to License Optimization” and “Can...
View ArticleSoftware License Model Support Critical to Accurate Software License Counts
By Cyndi TackettSoftware license models support the underlying calculations performed by Software License Optimization solutions on an application to determine license consumption. For example, device...
View ArticleAutomation Essential to Maintaining Optimal Software License Position
By Cyndi TackettAnother important factor to consider in selecting a Software License Optimization solution is the level of automation supplied to reduce the manual effort required for maintaining your...
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Top 10 Scariest Ghosts and Goblins in Software Asset Management
By John EmmittIt's Halloween, so I wanted to come up with the list of some of the scariest things that software asset managers face when dealing with enterprise software. Here's my list: What's on your...
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