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If you’ve been using FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS) for a while, it’s probably gotten comfortable. You’ve built some solid processes around the tool and weathered a few software audits, tightened up your license management and even scored some wins on software savings. But lately, you might be wondering if it’s time for something more.
You’re not alone.
As IT environments evolve—faster than ever—the processes you established with FNMS five years ago might be holding you back today. That’s where Flexera One IT Asset Management (ITAM) comes in. Think of it as the next generation of ITAM, purpose-built for the cloud era and designed to give you more visibility, more control and frankly, less headache.
Here are five reasons why upgrading to Flexera One ITAM just makes sense:
One connected platform to manage all your IT assets
By upgrading to Flexera One ITAM, you’re plugged into the entire Flexera One Platform. This not only gives you insights into more than just traditional ITAM, but also insights into your SaaS subscriptions, cloud licenses, cloud infrastructure and enhanced IT visibility for asset discovery and security.
New, exclusive AI features
Flexera One ITAM gives you access to exclusive AI features that help you keep an accurate inventory of your IT assets, reduce burdensome processes and help find answers to convoluted ITAM processes.
- AI entitlement ingestion: With Flexera One ITAM, you can upload purchase data and automatically create new purchase order documents for each line item included within the data. These new documents will have all of the purchase data generated by AI, including the purchase order number, purchase date, vendor name, description of the item, purchase quantity information, item cost and most importantly, the SKU information—including if it’s available in the Flexera SKU library.
- Flexera Assist: Flexera Assist is an in-app conversational AI available for Flexera One users. It helps you get instant and contextual answers to product-related questions based on Flexera’s product documentation library and the Flexera community. By utilizing Flexera Assist, you can achieve a greater understanding of product features, get step-by-step support, troubleshoot issues and discover community insights.
Integration with Flexera One SaaS Management
Through this integration, you can unify your license, subscription and usage data across both SaaS and on-premises applications. Flexera One SaaS Management sends daily updates to ITAM for license entitlements, user subscriptions and application usage data.
Utilizing this integration solves several key business challenges, including:
- Hybrid compliance: Complete SaaS license data missing from ITAM, ideal for license compliance positions for hybrid applications like Visio, Acrobat and Project
- Shadow IT visibility: Discover and track shadow SaaS usage, which Flexera One ITAM can now incorporate into vendor views and compliance reports
- Vendor management: Flexera One ITAM now provides a complete vendor view by combining SaaS and on-premises data, enabling better negotiations and risk mitigation
- License optimization: With accurate usage data from Flexera One SaaS Management, Flexera One ITAM can identify underutilized licenses and recommend cost-saving actions
Integration with Cloud License Management
Additionally, by exploring another powerful integration with Flexera’s Cloud License Management, you’ll truly be able to bridge traditional ITAM with modern cloud software governance. Entitlement and license position data is imported from Flexera One ITAM, allowing you to calculate compliance for cloud-deployed software and achieve a unified license position.
This solution tracks and validates your bring-your-own-license (BYOL) entitlements against your actual cloud usage. It then determines the best cloud licensing path for your pay-as-you-go (PAYG) or BYOL instances.
Unified analytics engine
By adopting Flexera One ITAM, you’ll gain access to superior analytics from our Technology Intelligence data and reporting engine, including:
- A modern data lakehouse
- A unified, extensible data model
- An advanced analytics engine for real-time insights
Through this advanced architecture, we support:
- An improved experience for product-level analytics and granular decision-making
- Continued automated license reconciliation and optimization logic
- Out-of-the-box reports via the ITAM Report API
Looking toward the future
Just as the hybrid IT landscape is evolving, so are we. We’ll continue to improve and add new features to the Flexera One Platform and Flexera One ITAM, including new AI feature sets, reporting capabilities and API enhancements.
Make sure you’re up to date on all the latest and greatest ITAM functionality by upgrading to Flexera One ITAM today.
