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Flexera Software Announces New Versions of FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises and Workflow Manager
SCHAUMBURG, IL, Jul 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage
Management solutions for application producers and enterprises,
announced today significant enhancements to FlexNet Manager Suite for
Enterprises. FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises is built upon the
FlexNet Manager Platform, which delivers software and hardware asset
management for enterprises across 11,000 publishers and 100,000
applications. The Suite also includes software license optimization
solutions for Oracle, Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Symantec, and
engineering applications, which automate entitlement-based license
management to reduce license, maintenance and audit costs while
maintaining license compliance.
The new release provides additional support for organizations seeking
to migrate to virtualized and cloud-based environments with minimal
risk and disruption. It also speeds time to value and helps buffer
organizations from increased software licensing costs and compliance
risks resulting from consumerization of IT, Bring Your Own Device
(BYOD) and other trends impacting the IT environment.
Facilitating Virtualization & the Cloud While Minimizing Risk
Virtualization and the cloud have enabled powerful new licensing
models for efficient and cost effective delivery of mission-critical
applications to users. However, few organizations understand the
impact of running virtualized applications on their license
compliance position or software audit risk profile. FlexNet Manager
Suite goes farther than any other solution to reduce the software
compliance risks associated with virtualization.
New VMware VMotion cluster support significantly reduces license
liability risk as virtual machines are moved between servers in a
cluster. FlexNet Manager Suite automatically inventories VMware
server clusters and provides built-in virtualization licensing rules
for IBM and Oracle that enable enterprises to manage licenses for
applications running in these clusters.
"VMware VMotion provides tremendous efficiencies, enabling IT to move
virtual machines across physical servers to accommodate constantly
changing workload needs. However, virtual machine movement within
virtualized clusters may impact organizations' software license
position due to vendor-specific license rules," said Alan Swahn, vice
president of product management at Flexera Software. "FlexNet Manager
Suite's new support for VMotion clusters will significantly enhance
organizations' ability to remain compliant in dynamic virtual
environments."
Accelerating Time to Value
Application Usage Management increasingly is being recognized as a
strategic priority to ensure continuous licensing compliance,
optimized investment in software and future-proofed technology
deployments and migrations. FlexNet Manager Suite accelerates time to
value to maximize software ROI from the desktop to datacenter.
A new adapter for Symantec Altiris 7.1 enables FlexNet Manager Suite
to leverage customers' existing investments in third party inventory
tools. An expanded Application Recognition Library that includes more
Linux & UNIX titles significantly increases the ability to discover,
inventory and manage applications in the datacenter to ensure
continual compliance of infrastructure software. The Application
Recognition Library, which contains information to identify software
for more than 110,000 software titles from 14,000 publishers, scrubs
raw inventory data and provides a list of installed software per
device.
Enhancing the CFO's and CIO's ability to maintain financial
accountability and control over software assets, FlexNet Manager
Suite's predictive 'What If' analysis has been expanded to include
all server license types. Now, the impact of hardware, software and
configuration changes on all datacenter licenses can be simulated
ahead of time -- including core point, processor, processor point and
Microsoft server core models -- helping organizations reduce the
likelihood of compliance drift and anticipate the license liability
and cost impact of infrastructure changes.
Moreover, FlexNet Manager Platform now automatically processes
purchase orders in bulk, rather than on a one-by-one basis. The
Platform uses its Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) library or known
relationships between existing purchase orders and licenses in the
repository to automatically create new license records or update
existing licenses based on incoming purchase orders. It automatically
links those license entitlements to software inventory as well.
Automating the complex task associated with purchase order processing
enables IT asset managers to focus efforts on exception handling and
avoid errors due to manual processing.
Enabling the Consumerization of IT
As the consumerization of IT transforms the enterprise landscape,
users increasingly are demanding a BYOD workplace with access to
sensitive enterprise data from myriad personal devices.
FlexNet Manager Platform now has expanded hardware asset management
capabilities to help enable secure BYOD via a new, out-of-the-box
adapter for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
2012. This new adapter allows organizations to import hardware asset
inventory data for mobile devices, track and manage these devices in
the FlexNet Manager Platform repository, and differentiate between
enterprise-owned and employee-owned mobile devices. In cases where
the enterprise doesn't use System Center Configuration Manager 2012,
the mobile device inventory is also obtainable through connection to
Microsoft Exchange's ActiveSync tool.
Promoting Best Practices, Accountability & Control
Customers increasingly have been demanding a vendor-agnostic tool to
obtain an accurate picture of their IBM PVU sub-capacity license
position. FlexNet Manager Suite now provides sub-capacity
calculations for PVU licenses, enabling accurate and independent
verification of IBM license consumption. With this functionality,
organizations can calculate their PVU license position independently
of the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT), see a side-by-side report
comparing ILMT license data against FlexNet Manager for IBM and
better defend against IBM audits.
Finally, enhancements to Workflow Manager streamline common software
asset management workflow tasks via a straightforward configuration
of approval tasks. This enables manager approval directly via emails.
It also provides coverage for all key scenarios such as group
approvals, where anyone in a pool of users is able to approve the
task, or parallel approval, where multiple approvers can approve a
task in any order.
Resources:
FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises includes the following
components:
-- FlexNet Manager Platform
-- FlexNet Manager for Microsoft
-- FlexNet Manager for Adobe
-- FlexNet Manager for IBM
-- FlexNet Manager for Symantec
-- FlexNet Manager for SAP Business Suite
-- FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications
-- Workflow Manager
-- Read our Blog on Enterprise License Optimization
-- FlexNet Manager Suite Success Stories
-- Related Flexera Software Webinars
-- Enterprise License Optimization White Papers
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About Flexera Software
Flexera Software is the leading provider of strategic solutions for
Application Usage Management; solutions delivering continuous
compliance, optimized usage and maximized value to application
producers and their customers. Flexera Software is trusted by more
than 80,000 customers that depend on our comprehensive solutions --
from installation and licensing, entitlement and compliance
management to application readiness and enterprise license
optimization -- to strategically manage application usage and achieve
breakthrough results realized only through the systems-level approach
we provide. For more information, please go to:
www.flexerasoftware.com.
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For more information, contact:
John Lipsey
+1 (224) 465-9139
Email Contact
SOURCE: Flexera Software
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