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 for May 2025.
Innovation area: ITAM
AI-based invoice/PO/quote ingestion
Introducing Flexera One ITAM’s first AI capability—purchase data and entitlement ingestion (coming later this quarter for Snow Atlas customers). Upload original purchase orders, invoices or order documents in .pdf, .jpg/jpeg, .bmp, .tiff or .png format and automatically ingest multiple new purchase data documents without any manual input. Reduce the time it takes to get entitlements into your favorite Flexera ITAM solution. Learn more about this new functionality on our blog.
Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) VM inventory collector
Flexera One ITAM now supports the discovery and inventory of Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). You can now easily discover and inventory virtual machines (VMs) hosted on Nutanix servers managed by Nutanix Prism.
Key features
- Comprehensive inventory collection: Flexera IT Asset Management now collects detailed information on Nutanix VM infrastructure, including clusters, pools and hosts as well as software inventory installed on virtual machines
- License compliance positioning: With the collected data, organizations can generate a license compliance position for VM-host and host-cluster relationships managed by Nutanix Prism
To learn more about this exciting new feature, consult Flexera’s documentation.
Real-time custom data updates and event-driven automation with Snow Atlas write APIs
Snow Atlas has released several write REST APIs to help you reduce manual steps in updating ITAM data and improve your ability to do more with event-driven automation. New write APIs have been released for applications, licenses, computers and users. Snow Atlas Write APIs will help your team:
- Programmatically update asset metadata and apply custom business rules in real time (update lifecycle status at EOL)
- Automatically trigger bulk updates such as ownership changes and cost centers and update assets with event-driven automation including notifications for expiring licenses, decommissioned hardware, etc.
- Keep Snow Atlas ITAM data up to date from third-party systems such as finance, security, HR and ITSM tools not currently supported with pre-built connectors
Access the product documentation on read and write APIs for Snow Atlas here.
Innovation area: FinOps
Optimize Google Cloud CUDs and SUDs
Flexera’s commitment management solution, Eco, has a new Google Cloud user dashboard for Google Cloud Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) and Sustained Use Discounts (SUDs). Now, users can track Eco’s optimization of their CUDs and SUDs, including savings and commitment balance, with more analytics to come in H2 2025. Eco’s Google Cloud dashboard is available (alongside AWS and Azure dashboards) from within the Flexera One console.
Automated Kubernetes rightsizing
Within Flexera’s Kubernetes cost management solution, Spot Ocean, automated Kubernetes rightsizing is now available for all customers, with several new enhancements:
- View potential and actual savings from rightsizing actions and apply automatic rules to selected workloads
- Define rightsizing rules per namespace or label so they auto-attach to any new workload with these attributes
- Set sample percentile to be used as a baseline for recommendations at the workload and cluster level.
- More aggressive settings (as low as the 85th percentile) ignore anomalous usage spikes; this results in lower recommended CPU and memory values
- Conservative settings (up to the 100th percentile) take all data into account for more moderate adjustments
- Rightsizing recommendations now consider triggers from the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to avoid conflicts with Ocean’s own Vertical Pod Autoscaling (VPA) configurations
- [Coming later in June!] No-reset rightsizing: Building on the Kubernetes 1.33 version and the latest VPA release, Ocean’s automated rightsizing can be done live—with no need to reset the workloads
- This will unlock greater savings, especially for volatile workloads where demands are dictated by the highest peak, creating waste in between peaks
- A powerful use case is Java workloads, which are characterized by early CPU peaks
- Ocean will now allow rightsizing as soon as the peak is over
Save on AWS AI workloads with GPU time-slicing
Ocean now supports time-slicing Nvidia GPUs for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), enabling multiple Amazon EKS workloads to share the same GPU and utilize every bit of it. All you do is enter your configured GPU multiplier on the Ocean API. Now, instead of needing a separate GPU instance for every task, you can pack multiple tasks onto a single instance, leading to significant cost savings on AI workloads.
Hybrid autoscaling for Azure commitments
Flexera Spot now allows Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and stateful Azure VM workloads to utilize existing reservations and savings plans. Spot will seamlessly alternate between commitments, spot VMs and on-demand compute instances to ensure intact performance at the most efficient cost.
Save time and money, reduce errors with AKS auto-updates
Ocean now includes automated AKS cluster updates. Intelligent, commitment-aware autoscaling prioritizes your existing Azure commitments during scaling events, reducing reliance on on-demand or spot VMs. This helps you keep your cloud budget in check without compromising availability. We’ve also added auto-upgrades for AKS control plane versions, which takes the burden off your DevOps team by automatically detecting when a new patch is available. With these updates, Azure users no longer need to choose between cost and performance.
Gain real-time insights into cloud carbon emissions
Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization (CCO) customers now can access a new Cloud Sustainability Impact Intelligence report within the Flexera One console. The report provides real-time insights into carbon emissions, water consumption and electricity usage, helping organizations monitor and reduce their environmental impact. It illustrates key metrics such as carbon footprint by cloud service provider, energy consumption and emissions trends over time.
By analyzing this data, businesses can track sustainability goals and make data-driven decisions that lower their carbon footprint, supporting a more eco-friendly and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. Learn more here.
Innovation area: SaaS Management
Salesforce roles and profiles support
The enhanced Salesforce integration in Flexera One SaaS Management now includes support for Salesforce roles and profiles, helping organizations improve license governance, ensure compliance and optimize costs. Roles define what users can see, while profiles define what users can do—key distinctions for managing access and license entitlements. We’ve also added new user-level fields such as locale, user ID, alias and user type to support more detailed reporting. All of this is now available in the Salesforce family view under the user tab.
New Microsoft Copilot connector
Flexera One SaaS Management M365 integration has been expanded to support Microsoft Copilot, giving organizations better visibility into how AI software licenses are being used and adopted. This enhanced integration can now retrieve user activity data for Microsoft Copilot. It is also incorporated alongside existing M365 insights and surfaces valuable recommendations about potential optimization opportunities.
Innovation area: IT Visibility
Report features and enhancements
Mass filter feature added to hardware and software portfolio overviews
Gain improved usability and manual effort reduction with mass filters. Mass filters help customers apply bulk filtering with a list of keywords. Here’s how it works:
Copy a list of keywords from any external source (Excel, CSV, plain text file) and paste it in the input box; all values are used at once to filter the report instantly. With mass filters, customers get faster insights, especially when working with large datasets or performing comparative analysis.
Search filters are now case insensitive
Search filters in reports are now case insensitive, including contextualization fields, making it easier for customers to find relevant data without worrying about capitalization. With this update, we aim to improve usability and consistency across reports. Note: For contextualization, customers are advised to reupload the data for the changes to reflect. See the Flexera documentation for details on additional minor updates.
Enhancements to IT Visibility insights query API
Expanded software inventory source updates
IT Visibility now provides more detailed software inventory information with the addition of crucial file-level evidence and installation path detail via the software inventory source dataset.
Customers using this endpoint can:
- Easily track the installation paths of software evidence, improving both accessibility and traceability
- Have complete transparency over file evidence; this will simplify the review and management process
- Discover a deeper understanding of their installed software that will help enhance inventory management and support compliance efforts
What is changing?
- The software inventory source dataset will be expanded to include support for file evidence, providing customers with richer and more detailed data
- The software inventory source dataset now includes four additional columns in both Delta and Snapshot:
- Path (Installation path/file path)
- FileName
- FileVersion
- FileSize
- The InstallType field will now differentiate between evidence types in both Delta and Snapshot:
- 0 for software_installer_evidence
- 1 for operating_system_evidence
- 2 for software_file_evidence
Important note:
Please note that, following this update, all previously issued resume tokens for the software inventory source dataset will no longer be valid. Customers will need to request a new snapshot and use the updated resume token for all future interactions. For those using the Flexera One ServiceNow Integration Application, this update will be handled automatically, ensuring no impact to your service.
Transition to the new and improved Inventory Normalization Insights report
The new Inventory Normalization Insights report is now available at Data Collection > IT Visibility Inventory Status > Inventory Normalization Insights. This new report provides customers with a more powerful and accurate way to view their data, as well as enhanced features and more precise counts, empowering you with deeper insights into your inventory.
As of May 30, 2025, this report replaces the legacy Inventory Normalization Statistics report (found under Data Collection > IT Visibility Inventory Status > Inventory Normalization Statistics), which will be officially decommissioned.
There will be no disruption to Inventory Normalization reporting during this transition.
Innovation area: Security/Software Vulnerability Management (SVM) and Application Readiness
Software Vulnerability Manager (SVM)
The latest version of the SVM cloud edition hosts a brilliant set of feature enhancements and customer bug fixes, including:
- SVM connection status indicators
Find greater clarity during SVM setup with new SVM connection status indicators that are available with the latest Patch Publisher update. Indicators provide immediate visual feedback on the state of their SVM connection: a green icon now signifies an active connection, while a red icon indicates that the connection is either inactive or not yet configured. This update aims to eliminate confusion and build transparency into the setup processes. - Patch Publisher transition to MSAL
With Microsoft’s latest security standards, Flexera has transitioned from using the Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) to the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL). This update offers enhanced protection and enables support for modern authentication scenarios through advanced identity frameworks.
For more information, see the release notes here and the community blog here.
Software Vulnerability Research (SVR)
The most recent update for SVR includes improved searching and selecting of groups and users via a guided search function.
Guided search for selecting groups and users
Choose directly from the drop-down list or enter keywords into the search box. Matching results will be displayed in the grid, making it faster and easier to find and select the desired group.
Editable workflow rules
Additionally, the first step of workflow rules is now editable without disrupting workflow integrity. Our customers often manage multiple watchlists, which can surface significant challenges when changes occur in the first step of a workflow. Now, you can edit all rule types and options in the first step with save and cancel options provided and maintain the functionality of subsequent steps, as per prior implementations. Customers can edit the first step of a workflow—rather than requiring a complete rebuild—streamlining operations, reducing manual effort and ensuring compliance updates are seamlessly incorporated.
For more information, see the release notes here and the community blog here.
AdminStudio 2025 Release
In case you missed it, this year marks the 25th anniversary of AdminStudio. With our latest release, you gain access to a host of new features, enhancements and bug fixes.
Key highlights include:
HSM-based custom signing of MSIX packages
AdminStudio now supports custom signing of MSIX packages with integration to secure hardware security modules (HSM) such as Azure Key Vault and Azure HSM. You can define a custom signing process by specifying the path to signing tools or scripts, such as AzureSignTool, along with any required arguments. Ensure secure, automated signing workflows using private keys stored in HSMs, aligning with your organization’s security and compliance requirements.
New “My Requests” tab for package request tracking
A new “My Requests” tab has been added to the support tab on the application manager ribbon. With this enhancement, you can submit new package requests for the package feed module as well as monitor and manage your submitted package requests, including tracking their progress with real-time status updates.
Support for ConfigMgr deployments
The application view now includes a ConfigMgr deployments tab, enabling customers to add, edit and delete ConfigMgr deployments for specified applications. Additionally, the distribution wizard has been updated to streamline the deployment process, ensuring applications are automatically installed on all targeted systems.
Schedule automation enhancements
Improvements to schedule automation now allow customers to define package automation start dates and times across all scheduler frequencies (once, daily, weekly and monthly). Configure package automation for weekly recurring schedules as well as monthly. Monthly scheduling can be set up on specific dates within the selected months or based on a specific weekday occurrence (e.g., second Monday) in those months.
Support for publishing Mac packages to Workspace ONE
AdminStudio now supports publishing PKG and DMG packages to Workspace ONE, simplifying the application publishing workflow and expanding platform support for macOS software distribution.
Support for Azure Government Cloud in AAC
A new Azure environment property that allows customers to configure the Azure environment as either Global or U.S. Government Cloud when entering Azure details to browse for virtual machines in AAC is now available.
New application selection option while importing from ConfigMgr
Check out the application view property in the source server details panel to leverage enhanced flexibility and performance in application display during the import process. Customers can now opt for a tree structure or a tabular grid view, ensuring quicker access and improved efficiency.
PowerShell Cmdlets/REST API enhancements
Utilize new Cmdlets and REST APIs to support custom and standard signing of MSIX packages, boosting automation.
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