Keeping an Eye on Redundant Applications

Gaining control over the SaaS ecosystem and spend is not an easy task. Companies must follow a process to avoid redundancy. Redundancy means wasted costs and increased risk. With all of the many concerns and to-dos that come with digital transformation, it’s easy to fall into the mindset of, “I’ll get to that later.” At first glance, consolidating SaaS apps seems like the last thing an IT department would need to tackle. This would be a costly mi…

May 7, 2019 Paul Pieske

Gartner names Flexera a 2019 Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Tools Leader

All of us at Flexera are incredibly proud to announce that Flexera has been named as a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Tools! For the second time Gartner positioned Flexera as a market “Leader” (upper right quadrant) because of our Completeness of Vision and  Ability to Execute. Flexera (RightScale) was also a Leader in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms. But as proud as we are for being…

April 30, 2019 Paul Pieske

4 Ways Cloud Spend is Wasted

Chances are your organization now spends a significant amount of money on cloud resources. The question is: Are you maximizing the value of that spend? It may seem that on-demand cloud instances are extremely cost-effective, giving developers and IT teams easy and quick access to needed resources. However, Flexera’s RightScale team has measured cloud spend among enterprise users and identified that, on average, 35 percent is wasted. That wasted c…

November 13, 2018 Flexera