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New releases on the Flexera One platform in October augment user visibility into Apple devices and cloud commitment burn rate. Don’t forget to check out the resources for interactive sneak peeks.
Flexera One ITAM
JAMF Adapter
Managing Apple devices with the same precision as Windows devices is challenging. Agents are not set up to collect detailed information on Apple devices and the information gathered is often sparse and incomplete.
Our new Jamf adapter for Flexera One is built to deliver detailed Apple device data, covering hardware, software and security posture directly from your Jamf environment into Flexera One. It supports Jamf Cloud and Jamf Pro (on-premises) and converts that data into trusted, normalized inventory you can act on.
More to discover – new resources
Enhanced reporting for installed applications on containers
With this new release, customers can now get a clear view of application installations along with contextual information about the container in which each installation was discovered and create custom reports. This enhancement adds three new objects and their basic properties to the Report Builder:
- Container
- Container image
- Container pod
Learn more in the documentation.
IT Visibility
Transparency and control for your inventory data
IT Visibility leverages Technology Intelligence to bring unprecedented transparency and control to your inventory data. IT Visibility provides a centralized evidence store designed to give IT asset management (ITAM), FinOps and governance teams trusted, portable and fully traceable data. With new updates to File Evidence in IT Visibility, customers can now further simplify compliance, improve transparency and empower data-driven decisions with confidence. The latest release delivers:
- Full evidence lineage and transparency: Every piece of evidence is uniquely identifiable and traceable to its source, ensuring audit readiness and deep visibility into data provenance.
- Evidence portability and extensibility: Access raw file-level data directly through GraphQL APIs, giving you unrestricted, query-ready access to your environment.
- Direct access to raw file evidence
- Clear visibility into the foundational data powering your inventory insights
- Complete lineage tracking for every piece of evidence
This initial release supports file evidence for all TI Platform data sources. Future updates will expand to include installers, OS, usage, user and virtualization evidence.
Business Service Contextualization with CDS
For greater flexibility, transparency and control for your Business Service reporting, IT Visibility now offers Business Service Contextualization through the Contextual Data Store (CDS). This enhancement lets you enrich Business Services with additional attributes and visualize them alongside hardware and software data in Power BI. Customers can now: Upload CSV files with Business Service IDs and contextual attributes directly in the CDS UI.
- Ensure smooth ingestion with automatic attribute detection, data type assignment and schema validation.
- Use contextualized data flows in the Service Data Model (SDM) in IT Visibility and Power BI reports.
Now with native support for Business Service contextualization, you can:
- Create richer, contextualized dashboards
- Improve reporting for customers migrating from GoodData to Power BI
- Strengthen governance with schema validation and access controls
For more details, see our community release blog, technical release notes and product documentation.
FinOps
Flexera One Cloud Commitment Management: New elements on the user dashboard
All-upfront cRI support (AWS)
Last month, we officially launched Flexera One Cloud Commitment Manager (formerly Spot Eco)—your first step for FinOps automation. In October, you can now unlock a risk-free savings uplift. AWS’s EC2 convertible reserved instances (cRIs) offer a 5% higher discount on on-demand pricing when paid fully upfront, compared to no-upfront cRIs. By opting in to all-upfront cRIs, you can unlock additional savings beyond what’s available with no-upfront options. Of course, all-upfront cRIs have the same alteration options as no/partial upfront cRIs.
- Why it matters: Gain an uplift to your Effective Savings Rate (ESR), maximizing the value of your cloud commitment strategy. To take advantage of this, please consult your cost specialist.
Real-time ESR and waste
Hourly tracking of effective savings, spend and waste lets you see how your commitment strategy handles traffic fluctuations. This is where Flexera’s automates cRI policies are seen at work.
- Why it matters: Customers can now see the desired state to which all automated actions are striving. This way, it’s easy to validate your current commitment strategy against your business goals.
cRI Flattening chart
Understand how your existing convertible RIs can shift to remove waste if usage suddenly drops.
More to discover – new resources
- Webinar: Take your first step towards FinOps automation: Learn how Cloud Commitment Management can make your FinOps practice easier, and 10 times more impactful. Click here to watch on-demand.
- Demo video: Cloud Commitment Management–metrics that matter: Learn all about the KPIs that help FinOps practitioners evaluate their commitment portfolio performance in this quick tour of the new user dashboard. Click here to watch.
- Blog: 3 ways to maximize Effective savings rate (ESR)
