We are constantly working to provide our customers with exciting new features and capabilities across our solutions. This blog series will continue to feature and illustrate our latest capabilities, features, improvements, and innovations designed to help you maximize the value of our products. Here’s what’s new at Flexera since the beginning of 2025.
Innovation area: IT Asset Management (ITAM)
New: VMware vSAN inventory now collected and recognized
For Flexera One ITAM customers, VMware vSAN, a software-defined storage solution that is integrated directly into the ESXi hypervisor, is now collected and recognized as VMware inventory. You can find it as an application inventory record in Flexera One ITAM on the VMware Inventory page, along with all the relevant properties collected about how it is licensed, such as capacity, keys assigned, evaluation, and more.
The VMware inventory page has now been updated with the following new properties:
- Cluster name: Indicates the vMotion cluster to which the ESX host represented by this row belongs.
- Cluster required vSAN capacity: The total number of TiBs (Tebibytes) used by vSAN datastores on all hosts belonging to the vMotion cluster represented in this row.
- Host required vSAN capacity (TiBs): The total number of TiBs used by vSAN datastores on the host represented by this row.
For more information about the VMware Inventory page, including a complete list of available properties, see VMware Inventory in the Flexera documentation.
New: Cloud License Management – Preview
Cloud License Management is a soon to be released Flexera One product specifically designed to give insights into cloud software spend for software hosted on Microsoft Azure and AWS. Identify cost saving opportunities, manage your bring your own license (BYOL) and multi-cloud positions, and reduce your regulatory and license compliance risk.
Cloud License Management provides real-time visibility into where your BYOL’s are applied helping you fix any license compliance issues in the cloud and identify new areas of savings by comparing your pay-as-you-go (PAYG) positions on your instances.
On release, Flexera Cloud License Management will support insights into the following products:
Amazon Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Enterprise, Microsoft SQL Express, Microsoft SQL Standard, Microsoft SQL Web, Windows Server, Oracle Enterprise, Oracle Standard, Oracle Standard One, Oracle Standard Two, Red Hat Enterprise Linux with HA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux Server.
Stay tuned for more information on Flexera Cloud License Management.
Innovation area: IT Visibility
New: Technology Intelligence landing page in Flexera One IT Visibility
For IT Visibility customers, Flexera One introduced a new landing page, enhancing the experience and delivery of Technology Intelligence reporting.
All current out-of-the-box (OOTB) reports will still be available, but now with more user-friendly access. On the landing page, you will find reports grouped based on the jobs to be done, simplifying navigation and enabling you to make informed business decisions more efficiently.
The existing OOTB reports are now grouped under the following types:
- Hardware – These reports focus on hardware inventory, lifecycle insights, inventory and lifecycle trends, procurement planning, VM and host relationships, and sustainability insights.
- Software – These reports focus on software inventory, lifecycle trends, vulnerabilities, lifecycle risks, and procurement planning.
- Governance & Risk – These reports help IT teams address lifecycle risks, ensure compliance, and manage vulnerabilities by providing insights into hardware, software, and operating systems.
- Procurement – These reports optimize hardware and software purchasing by highlighting lifecycle stages, end of life, end of sale, and obsolescence risks.
- Security – These reports provide insights into threat exposures and lifecycle risks.
Innovation area: SaaS Management
New: Cloud Access Security Broker integration
For many years, Flexera has had the ability to detect sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS application use with our browser extension. To help more organizations get a handle on shadow SaaS, we recently released integration with a Cloud Access Security Broker connector for Microsoft Defender. This new capability brings immediate visibility of SaaS application usage to software asset managers and adds to our vision of enabling complete SaaS application visibility with a combination of discovery methods to include SSO, CASB, vendor API, agent and browser extensions.
New: AI-generated subcategories
To help customers reduce SaaS sprawl and perform application rationalization better, last year we added AI-generated application descriptions and categories. And now, Snow SaaS Management offers enhanced categorization with AI-generated subcategories, providing users with a more granular breakdown of applications alongside the existing category information for improved insights and navigation.
Innovation Area: FinOps
New: Editing recommendation sets
Expanding on the release of recommendation sets last July, this month we released a new beta feature that enables customers to edit a previously-created recommendation set. Editing a recommendation set allows for the configurable parameters of a recommendation set to be updated and/or removed without requiring the creation of a new recommendation set. For more information, please check out our product announcement. Please note: As this feature is currently in beta, you will need to request that it be enabled for your account.
New: Centralized savings plans visibility now available for Microsoft Azure Modern Commerce Agreement (MCA)
With this enhanced functionality, FinOps teams can now access and manage critical savings plans data including cost, utilization percentage, and expiration dates for Microsoft Azure MCA directly on the savings plans page. This centralized view provides FinOps teams with comprehensive data, allowing them to make informed, timely decisions to better optimize their cloud usage. Previously, FinOps teams had to switch between multiple cloud provider consoles to access these data sets. This enhancement brings all this savings plan data into a single view. For more information, see Microsoft Azure Savings Plans in the Flexera One Help.
Innovation area: Security / Software Vulnerability Management (SVM)
New: SVM on-prem updates
Gain recent updates for SVM Cloud and Patch Publisher in our SVM on-prem edition. SVM on-prem R4 v 7.6.1.31 is now available and is compatible with the latest version of the Patch Publisher v 7.24.1667. Some important enhancements include:
Manage assignments for deployed packages
A new context menu option “Manage Assignments” has been introduced in the patch deployment status grid, enabling updates to already-deployed patches during Intune publishing. This update allows customers to easily add, edit, or delete patches based on their current status, making the patch management process more efficient. The new “Manage Assignments” option opens the Manage Assignments panel, where customers can update the Required, Available, and Uninstall assignment details for a selected patch.
New “Extracted Filename” text in patch information dialog
In the patch information dialog, a new “Extracted Filename” text has been introduced. This text displays the file path of the installer after the compressed package has been extracted.
Assignment groups migration from Patch Publisher to SVM web UI
This release enhances the migration of assignment groups from Patch Publisher into the SVM web UI, simplifying management and improving usability. With this enhancement, existing assignment groups configured in Patch Publisher will automatically be migrated and made available in the SVM UI upon upgrading. Only migrated groups are now accessible in the SVM UI for adding new groups, ensuring seamless management and data consistency. For additional detail, please see release notes here. For the community blog, please click here.
New: Software Vulnerability Research January 2025 update
Flexera Software Vulnerability Research (SVR) introduces the “Workflow Manager” role under User Management > Roles. This new role empowers users to efficiently manage workflows without requiring full administrative privileges. Key features include:
- Enhanced workflow management: View, create, edit, and manage all workflow rules with ease.
- Improved security: Minimize the need for multiple administrative accounts, reducing potential risks.
- Scalability support: Streamline workflow processes while maintaining robust access controls.
This update is designed to enhance security and scalability, ensuring better control and management of workflows across your organization. For the release notes, please click here. For the community blog, please click here.
New: AdminStudio introduces “My Requests”
AdminStudio’s Package Feed Module (PFM) has been an essential tool for our customers designed to significantly streamline the application packaging and deployment process. While the PFM helps with curated applications, at times there are items that may not be included in the database. Previously, customers raised support tickets to request the inclusion of new applications in PFM; that is why we are thrilled to announce a new feature that streamlines this process—”My Requests.”
Increase responsiveness with “My Requests”
With “My Requests,” customers can now raise new package requests directly from within AdminStudio, eliminating the need to raise support tickets. How it works:
- The request raised in AdminStudio reaches our Support and Engineering teams for review.
- After review, the new app is added to our catalog or our support can reach out to the requestor for more information reducing friction and increasing transparency.
Our customers are empowered by “My Requests” to quickly and efficiently add new applications, ensuring that their packaging needs are met promptly. “My Requests” reduces wait times and maintains focus on delivering high-quality, customer-centric solutions.
As part of our ongoing commitment to improving customer satisfaction and product usability, “My Requests” provides a more seamless and responsive process for managing application packaging requests. Read more on Package Feed Module here.
What’s next?
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