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The acceleration of digital transformation across all industries and organizations brings complexities that were unforeseen in years past. The roles of those in ITAM, including the related fields of software asset management (SAM) and hardware asset management (HAM), must evolve with the intricacies and pace introduced by the digital enterprise.

The company’s Flexera One platform delivers technology value optimization (TVO) giving enterprises the most complete view of their complex IT environments and enabling them to proactively manage technology spend and risk. In the drive to digital, Flexera One is becoming the critical platform for enterprises to improve their return on IT and cloud investments and maximize the value of every technology dollar they spend.

The inaugural report explores the thinking of more than 300 global technology decision makers and users about IT infrastructure, asset management, vulnerability posture and industry trends. It shares their current and future IT management strategies alongside tactical data regarding software obsolescence and vulnerability mitigation for strategic planning.

“These awards are well deserved by the winners,” said Cindy Grogan, Vice President of Global Alliances and GTM Solutions at Flexera. “Each organization provides strong understanding and innovation around Flexera’s solutions—all while displaying unmatched customer understanding of their business needs and challenges.”

Flexera's Software Vulnerability Manager is a software security vulnerability and patch management solution that provides out-of-the-box support for tens of thousands of third-party applications. Workspace ONE UEM is a cloud-based endpoint management platform that enables IT professionals to deliver and manage apps on any device in their organization.

The women honored on this year’s list pushed forward with comprehensive business plans, marketing initiatives and other innovative ideas to support their partners and customers, helping them through the uncertainty brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic. CRN celebrates these exceptional women for their leadership, dedication and channel advocacy.

However, Oracle doesn’t accept measurement data from all third-party tools; this is restricted to only a few select partners.

Flexera is a long-standing Oracle partner that has been continuously verified as a third-party tool vendor, which allows Flexera customers to evaluate their Oracle estate within our solutions. By using Flexera solutions, IT leaders can conduct a detailed evaluation of their currently deployed Oracle estate.

The survey results are available in the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report, which can be downloaded at https://info.flexera.com/SLO-CM-REPORT-State-of-the-Cloud. The report explores what 750 global cloud decision makers and users are thinking about the public, private and multi-cloud market. It shares their current and future cloud strategies, often showing year-over-year changes to help identify trends.

“Flexera has made major investments in our service and support organizations, and it shows in the feedback we’re getting from our customers and partners,” said Sean Doherty, SVP of Customer Experience at Flexera. “And now with the game-changing launch of Flexera One, we’ve never been in a better position to help our customers optimize the value of their technology assets across software, SaaS and cloud.”

Survey respondents are 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 half are C-level executives.

“Enterprises are under enormous pressure to increase innovation and reduce IT spend,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. “In chasing innovation we continue to see a significant, some would say unsustainable increase in cloud spending.

Flexera, headquartered in suburban Chicago, uniquely serves companies that use technology and those that produce it. The company’s Flexera division provides IT management solutions that help enterprises maximize business value from their technology investments. The company’s Revenera division provides solutions that help technology companies build better products, accelerate time to value and monetize what matters.

Flexera and seven other vendors were evaluated for The Forrester Wave^™ based on 27 criteria grouped into three categories: current offering, strategy and market presence. In the evaluation, Flexera received the highest possible scores in the criteria of product vision, market share, commercial model, access and permissions, resource discovery and cloud platform support, and billing.

“In times of great change, it is more important than ever to maintain a connection among employees,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. “When you give your employees a voice, you come together to navigate challenges and shape your path forward based on real-time insights into what works best for your organization. The Top Workplaces program can be that positive outcome your company can rally around in the coming months to celebrate leadership and the importance of maintaining an employee-focused culture, even during challenging times.”  

The full survey results are available in the Flexera 2021 State of ITAM Report, which can be downloaded at https://info.flexera.com/SLO-REPORT-State-of-ITAM.

The report explores the thinking of 461 global professionals who manage and participate in ITAM and SAM processes in medium and large organizations of at least 1,000 employees. The report enables IT leaders to benchmark their ITAM practices and results against those of other organizations.

The growth of SaaS applications is exploding at most organizations, as anyone with a company credit card and an email address can purchase a SaaS app. Such ease of adoption enables the subscriber to start using the application immediately, often neglecting to check with the company’s internal policies.

This results in the rapid proliferation—typically outside official procurement channels—of SaaS apps throughout an organization. This is “shadow SaaS”, and it creates expensive and dangerous challenges:

“At Flexera, our commitment over the years has always been to help our customers get the most out of their technology investments, whether on-premise or in the cloud,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. “To us, being recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management, for the third year in a row is an acknowledgement. Just as importantly, we are not resting in our mission to help companies reduce risks and optimize the costs of IT.

Godfrey will oversee all product strategy, product management and user experience activities that support the profitable growth of Flexera’s offerings that help customers inform and transform their IT ecosystems.

Godfrey joins Flexera from Syncsort, a global leader in data management, where she served as senior vice president of product management for almost two years.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome David to Flexera to help continue our track record of growth that we saw under Joe Freda,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. “Just as importantly, he’s a great fit for our culture.”

In business for more than 30 years, Flexera is the largest homegrown technology company in the Chicago area, employing more than 1,300 globally with over 300 in its suburban Chicago office, and serving more than 50,000 customers worldwide. Flexera is committed to providing solutions that enable companies to increase their category relevance, avoid obsolescence and strengthen their journey to digital transformation.

The survey results are available in the Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report, which can be downloaded at https://info.flexera.com/SLO-CM-REPORT-State-of-the-Cloud-2020

The report explores the thinking of 750 global cloud decision-makers and users regarding public, private and multi-cloud options and shares their current and future cloud adoption.