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Flexera One FinOps provides an integrated view of the technology ecosystem. It helps cloud teams collaborate with partners and stakeholders across the organization, such as ITAM and software license management (SLM), IT (operations and engineering), finance, engineering, architecture and security teams.

The 2023 report is available at https://info.flexera.com/CM-REPORT-State-of-the-Cloud.

Flexera’s flagship platform, Flexera One, is the first of its kind: a platform that delivers the power to mitigate risk, reduce costs, and maximize every technology investment. It offers technology value optimization (TVO) through IT visibility, IT asset management (ITAM), cloud cost optimization (CCO), and cloud migration and modernization. Flexera One enables enterprises to take control of their cloud journey with:

Flexera’s flagship platform, Flexera One, is the first of its kind: an award-winning platform that delivers the power to mitigate risk, reduce costs, and maximise every technology investment. It offers Technology Value Optimization (TVO) through IT Visibility, IT Asset Management, Cloud Migration and Modernisation, and Cloud Cost Optimisation.

ISO 27001 is a global security standard that determines the requirements for an ISMS. To achieve the certification, Flexera demonstrated its systematic and ongoing approach to managing sensitive company and customer information through its SaaS-based Flexera One platform. As a result, Flexera One is now recognized as fully compliant with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 global security standard. Flexera also established a formal program to maintain the certification.

Flexera One helps enterprise customers visualize their entire IT estate, including on-premises, SaaS, cloud, and containers. Flexera One mitigates risk, reduces costs and maximizes every technology investment.

According to Anisha Vinny, Frost & Sullivan Senior Industry Analyst, "Flexera is one of the dominant players in the Cloud Economics space, and Flexera One enables customers to visualize the entirety of their IT estate, from on-premises to SaaS, cloud, and containers."

"I’m so grateful that our employees have given us this award for the eleventh consecutive year," said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. "While we’re a global company, our roots and headquarters reside in the Chicagoland area and our local team is a key part of our culture."

The full survey results are available in the Flexera State of ITAM Report, which can be downloaded at https://info.flexera.com/ITAM-REPORT-State-of-IT-Asset-Management.

The report enables IT leaders to benchmark their ITAM practices and results against those of other organizations. It explores the thinking of 500 global professionals who manage and participate in ITAM, SAM and HAM processes in medium and large organizations of at least 1,000 employees.

Flexera and nine other vendors were evaluated for The Forrester Wave™ based on 26 criteria grouped into three categories: current offering, strategy, and market presence. In the evaluation, Flexera received the top score in the current offering category. In addition, Flexera had the highest possible scores in the product vision, access and permissions, resource discovery and cloud platform support, billing, cloud visibility, cost optimization, partner ecosystem, and commercial model criteria.

Gibson is a cybersecurity industry veteran with a proven track record of protecting the interests of software development and SaaS companies. He comes to Flexera from Pluralsight, where he built out the security organization for their online learning platform. Mike has also led enterprise security for Genesys, guiding the department through numerous acquisitions. Gibson started his career at Flexera, then called InstallShield.

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make strategic people decisions. The Institute serves businesses, non-profits and government agencies in more than 60 countries and has conducted pioneering research on the characteristics of great workplaces for over three decades.

Flexera is building out a full instance of its industry-leading solution with APAC production readiness scheduled in the 4th quarter of 2022. This will allow Flexera customers in ANZ and APAC to visualise, inform and transform their full hybrid IT estate from a single user and developer experience, delivering technology value optimisation (TVO) to business and technology stakeholders. Existing Flexera customers can take full advantage of Flexera One through a conversion incentive program.

Flexera’s flagship platform, Flexera One, is the first of its kind: an award-winning platform that delivers the power to mitigate risk, reduce costs, and maximize every technology investment. It offers technology value optimization (TVO) through IT visibility, IT asset management (ITAM), cloud cost optimization (CCO), and cloud migration and modernization. Flexera One enables enterprises to take control of their cloud journey with:

Survey respondents are 501 IT executives working in large enterprises with 2,000 or more employees, headquartered in North America and Europe, encompassing industries such as financial services, retail, e-commerce and industrial products. More than two-thirds are vice president or higher, and 80 percent work in IT.

Flexera’s certification is driven by an employee engagement survey that measured the extent to which employees across the organisation reported a consistently great workplace experience, considering factors such as innovation, inclusivity, company values and the effectiveness of its leaders.

The educational program, including exclusive content for Flexera customers, will be available on the Flexera community portal.

The Flexera 2021 State of Tech Spend report indicated that the top three CIO priorities were digital transformation, cybersecurity and cloud migration. Accordingly, asset management challenges have grown with the rapid adoption of SaaS, cloud, containers and other new technologies in hybrid environments.

By bringing innovative concepts, strategic business planning and comprehensive channel initiatives to life, these extraordinary women support partners and customers with exceptional leadership. CRN celebrates these women, who are so deserving of recognition, for their constant dedication to channel excellence.

Flexera, along with its Revenera division, today announced it has been awarded the Great Place to Work Certification in the UK, granted by the consultancy Great Place to Work^®, leader in the identification and certification of Best Workplaces. Based on employee feedback, the certification honors Flexera for its outstanding workplace culture.

“Each year, it’s an honor to reflect on and recognize Flexera’s partners of the year,” said Cindy Grogan, VP & General Manager, Flexera Alliances. “Our winners ensure they have an unflinching focus on meeting customer needs. Each of these organizations brings cutting-edge solutions to complex business challenges. Congratulations to each winner.”

IT business leaders have reported that IT asset management has become a complex, expensive and time-intensive task for enterprises as they continue to adopt a hybrid, multi-cloud strategy with software and applications running across public, private and on-premises environments.