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Resources Filter Type Blog Case Studies Datasheets Demo & Trials Videos Webinars Events White Papers & Reports Category AdminStudio Security Cloud Optimization and Migration FinOps IT Asset Management IT Visibility Software Vulnerability Management Event Flexera Live – New York City, NY July 29, 2026 | New York City Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions. Webinar Ask college board how they built a trusted data foundation Tuesday, August 11 | 11:00 a.m. CT (US) Join this live customer AMA to learn how College Board uses Flexera to enrich ServiceNow CMDB data, improve governance and support AI, automation and better IT decisions. Event Flexera Live – Sydney, Australia Aug 12, 2026 | Sydney, Australia Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions. Webinar AI Cost Management for MSP growth Tuesday, August 25 Learn how AI cost management helps MSPs control spend, improve governance and drive profitable growth. Event Flexera Live – Munich Sept 15, 2026 | Munich, Germany Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions. Event Flexera Live – San Francisco, CA Sept 16, 2026 | San Francisco, CA Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions. Event Flexera Live – Chicago, IL Sept 23, 2026 | Chicago, IL Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions. Event Flexera at MSP Summit Sept 28-30, 2026 | Orlando, FL Learn how MSPs gain visibility, control costs, and improve governance across cloud, SaaS, and IT assets. Booth 905 Webinar Learn best practices with experts James Dalley and Clayton Starko Tuesdays June 2, 2026 - February 2, 2027 | Webinar series Join experts James Dalley and Clayton Starko each month as they share practical ways to turn fragmented data into trusted insight, build governance that continuously reduces risk, and extend ServiceNow with deeper technology intelligence from Flexera - driving better visibility, stronger control, and more confident decisions. Webinar How to prove ITAM & SAM value to leadership Learn how to quantify savings, avoid risk and communicate impact to leadership teams. Blog Prompt caching breakdown: How it reduces token spend (2026) Every single API call to a large language model (LLM) reprocesses your whole prompt from scratch. That prompt usually includes system instructions, tool definitions and your full cha... Blog When AI budgets balloon: What enterprises are learning in 2026 AI was supposed to deliver efficiency. That was the promise that fueled aggressive investments across enterprises over the past few years. But a growing body of evidence tells a diff... Blog Introducing Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence: compliance without the complexity Compliance in IT is no longer a periodic checkbox, it’s a continuous discipline. Whether your organization navigates DORA in Europe, NYDFS and FFIEC in the U.S. or APRA in Australia, regulators now expect ongoing proof of lifecycle governanc... Datasheet Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence Gain continuous visibility into compliance standards risk and track progress with audit-ready, asset-level evidence. Datasheet FlexNet Manager Suite + Data Platform: A winning combination Government agencies are utilizing the best of both worlds in FNMS and Data Platform to demonstrate a defensible license position. Blog Leading Flexera’s Next Chapter When I joined Flexera as President last year, I saw a company with a strong market position, a differentiated platform, and a team built to solve a problem that is only becoming more urgent: helping organizations get control of complex technology ... Infographic The new ITAM reality See how ITAM is evolving to improve visibility, control costs, and manage cloud, SaaS, and AI. Infographic ITAM: From visibility to value Gain visibility into IT assets and turn insights into cost control, optimization, and better decisions across your technology estate. Infographic ITAM complexity is growing faster than control See why IT complexity is outpacing control—and how teams regain visibility and reduce risk. Blog What’s New at Flexera: June 2026 This June, Flexera releases help organizations gain greater visibility, control, and confidence across technology spend, IT assets, infrastructure, and security operations. New capab... Blog Strong FinOps metrics may not mean strong performance Visibility and data in FinOps FinOps teams don’t have a data problem. If anything, they have more visibility than ever. Dashboards now track savings, coverage, utilization ... Blog How to: Set up Databricks Git folders (Repos) from scratch (2026) What would you do if your whole engineering team were working in the same codebase at the same time and every change had to be tracked manually? Very quickly, things start to get messy and jittery. You woul... Blog How to: Create interactive visualization in Databricks AI/BI dashboards (2026) Raw data is pretty much meaningless until you can actually see what’s happening. A bunch of numbers in a table is just noise. To get any insight, you need to turn that data into something you can see ... Blog Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 recap: Genie One, LTAP, Lakehouse//RT and every major launche Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 is done. Four packed days in San Francisco. If you missed the live stream or skipped the Moscone Center floor entirely, you missed a lot. It was a pretty eventful few days, ... Blog N-1 Is the new patch Tuesday: rethinking upgrade policy for the AI era For twenty years, enterprise security rhythm has been set by the patch cycle. A vendor publishes fixes, security scores them, IT schedules them, and the backlog gets worked in order ... Blog Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: why SaaS sprawl is no longer just an IT problem After 5+ years of Flexera’s State of ITAM report, one thing’s clear: there’s no shortage of daily challenges faced by ITAM teams. Business units now buy application... Blog Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: How leaders are balancing AI cost optimization and governance Flexera’s newly-released 2026 State of ITAM Report reveals a growing disconnect: Organizations are investing heavily in AI tools, yet many lack the visibility and governance ne... Blog Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: How teams are regaining control of cloud, SaaS and AI As organizations scale across SaaS, public cloud and AI, ITAM teams are being asked to do more than track assets: They’re expected to restore visibility, prove value and govern env... Blog Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: How governance gaps are driving costly software audits Software audits aren’t new; nearly half (48%) of the organizations surveyed in Flexera’s 2026 State of ITAM Report said they had been audited in the last year. But they are b... Report Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: Insights from 500+ ITAM professionals Get the Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report to see how IT teams manage rising costs, reduce audit risk and navigate AI adoption—and where to focus next to improve visibility and drive value. Case Study Global analytics and publishing company optimizes cloud resources with Flexera Gain visibility into software usage and costs to make informed decisions and optimize cloud resources. Industry Report The 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms For the second year in a row, Flexera has been named a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms. Find out why. Blog 13 best practices for using Snowflake query tags (2026) It is peak business hours and your Snowflake account is getting bombarded with heavy traffic. Queries are flying in left and right from BI dashboards, ETL pipelines, Snowpark workloads, scheduled jobs and a... Blog How to: Create, publish and list Snowflake Cortex Knowledge Extensions (2026) Going through thousands of PDFs, research reports and internal documents manually to find a specific answer is slow, error-prone and does not scale. When you scale that up to an enterprise volume with ... Blog Tokens, credits and the new economics of AI consumption: how SaaS pricing actually works Tokens, credits and the new economics of AI Seat-based SaaS pricing assumed something simple: more users, more value, more cost. AI broke that assumption. The minute copilots and ag... Blog FinOps X 2026 recap: AI spend, tokenomics and the 20+ announcements you missed FinOps X 2026 has wrapped up and this recap will help you catch up on what happened throughout the session. The headline takeaway: AI spend has officially jumped from an engineering-level concern to a board... Blog Is Enterprise SaaS Shifting From UX to Agentic Infrastructure? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I’m not sure I have the full answer, but the signals are hard to ignore. For a decade, Enterprise SaaS was won on design. Cleaner dashboards. Fewer clicks. Better onboarding. The product ... Blog The risks of relying on AI alone for ITAM and FinOps AI is transforming how leaders interact with technology data. Natural language queries and automated recommendations make insights faster and more accessible. As a result, many executives are asking a reasonable question: “If AI can analyze ever... Blog The rise of Tokenomics: understanding the economics of AI Why AI infrastructure scales on tokens, not requests Most technology leaders have spent decades thinking about scale through a familiar lens. More users create more requests. More re... Blog What’s New at Flexera: May 2026 Flexera’s May 2026 updates deliver major enhancements across FinOps, SaaS Management, IT Asset Management, IT Visibility, and Security. Highlights include full stack AI cost manage... Blog FinOps X 2026: Product announcements from Flexera and ProsperOps The sixth FinOps X (if you count the one in Barcelona) took place this week in sunny San Diego, CA. This year’s event was all about AI spend. Rapid adoption of generative AI SaaS (e.g. Claude, CoPilot), AI cloud infrastructure (e.g. GPUs), and A... Case Study Augury improves AKS efficiency Optimize Kubernetes costs and performance across Azure workloads. Blog How healthcare organisations can reduce SaaS sprawl and cloud waste Health organisations across Australia and New Zealand are seeing SaaS costs rise quickly while application duplication quietly expands across teams. Tools are often adopted to solve local problems, then become embedded, renewed and replicated else... Blog The Invisible Inflation: Navigating the Moving Goalposts of AI Consumption The Shift from AI Performance to Predictability During the initial wave of enterprise AI adoption, strategic focus was almost exclusively centered on model quality and raw performance benchmarks. However, as the technology matures into the operati... Blog AI is rewriting the rules of vulnerability management, are you ready? AI is speeding up cybersecurity. It’s also fundamentally changing how vulnerabilities are discovered, validated and exploited. Claude Mythos has shown that with advanced models entering the market, the industry is moving into a phase where weakn... Blog Snowflake Summit 2026 recap: rebrands, acquisition and 25+ announcements Snowflake Summit 2026 took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from June 1 to June 4. “Making AI Real for Business” was the theme of the conference. The central message was:... Blog How AI is changing SaaS management In December 2025, Anthropic’s coding agent started actually working. Not a demo. Not a research preview. The thing that had been promised for two years finally landed. You don’t have to take our word for it. Andrej Karpathy said the sa... Blog AI execution depends on trusted technology data: Takeaways from ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 Explore key takeaways from ServiceNow Knowledge 2026, including the rise of agentic AI, autonomous workflows and why trusted technology data is essential for safe, scalable AI execution. Load More
Event Flexera Live – New York City, NY July 29, 2026 | New York City Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions.
Webinar Ask college board how they built a trusted data foundation Tuesday, August 11 | 11:00 a.m. CT (US) Join this live customer AMA to learn how College Board uses Flexera to enrich ServiceNow CMDB data, improve governance and support AI, automation and better IT decisions.
Event Flexera Live – Sydney, Australia Aug 12, 2026 | Sydney, Australia Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions.
Webinar AI Cost Management for MSP growth Tuesday, August 25 Learn how AI cost management helps MSPs control spend, improve governance and drive profitable growth.
Event Flexera Live – Munich Sept 15, 2026 | Munich, Germany Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions.
Event Flexera Live – San Francisco, CA Sept 16, 2026 | San Francisco, CA Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions.
Event Flexera Live – Chicago, IL Sept 23, 2026 | Chicago, IL Flexera Live is a one-day, in-person roadshow for ITAM and FinOps leaders seeking clarity across SaaS, cloud, and technology spend. Connect with peers, explore best practices, and learn how to drive smarter business decisions.
Event Flexera at MSP Summit Sept 28-30, 2026 | Orlando, FL Learn how MSPs gain visibility, control costs, and improve governance across cloud, SaaS, and IT assets. Booth 905
Webinar Learn best practices with experts James Dalley and Clayton Starko Tuesdays June 2, 2026 - February 2, 2027 | Webinar series Join experts James Dalley and Clayton Starko each month as they share practical ways to turn fragmented data into trusted insight, build governance that continuously reduces risk, and extend ServiceNow with deeper technology intelligence from Flexera - driving better visibility, stronger control, and more confident decisions.
Webinar How to prove ITAM & SAM value to leadership Learn how to quantify savings, avoid risk and communicate impact to leadership teams.
Blog Prompt caching breakdown: How it reduces token spend (2026) Every single API call to a large language model (LLM) reprocesses your whole prompt from scratch. That prompt usually includes system instructions, tool definitions and your full cha...
Blog When AI budgets balloon: What enterprises are learning in 2026 AI was supposed to deliver efficiency. That was the promise that fueled aggressive investments across enterprises over the past few years. But a growing body of evidence tells a diff...
Blog Introducing Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence: compliance without the complexity Compliance in IT is no longer a periodic checkbox, it’s a continuous discipline. Whether your organization navigates DORA in Europe, NYDFS and FFIEC in the U.S. or APRA in Australia, regulators now expect ongoing proof of lifecycle governanc...
Datasheet Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence Gain continuous visibility into compliance standards risk and track progress with audit-ready, asset-level evidence.
Datasheet FlexNet Manager Suite + Data Platform: A winning combination Government agencies are utilizing the best of both worlds in FNMS and Data Platform to demonstrate a defensible license position.
Blog Leading Flexera’s Next Chapter When I joined Flexera as President last year, I saw a company with a strong market position, a differentiated platform, and a team built to solve a problem that is only becoming more urgent: helping organizations get control of complex technology ...
Infographic The new ITAM reality See how ITAM is evolving to improve visibility, control costs, and manage cloud, SaaS, and AI.
Infographic ITAM: From visibility to value Gain visibility into IT assets and turn insights into cost control, optimization, and better decisions across your technology estate.
Infographic ITAM complexity is growing faster than control See why IT complexity is outpacing control—and how teams regain visibility and reduce risk.
Blog What’s New at Flexera: June 2026 This June, Flexera releases help organizations gain greater visibility, control, and confidence across technology spend, IT assets, infrastructure, and security operations. New capab...
Blog Strong FinOps metrics may not mean strong performance Visibility and data in FinOps FinOps teams don’t have a data problem. If anything, they have more visibility than ever. Dashboards now track savings, coverage, utilization ...
Blog How to: Set up Databricks Git folders (Repos) from scratch (2026) What would you do if your whole engineering team were working in the same codebase at the same time and every change had to be tracked manually? Very quickly, things start to get messy and jittery. You woul...
Blog How to: Create interactive visualization in Databricks AI/BI dashboards (2026) Raw data is pretty much meaningless until you can actually see what’s happening. A bunch of numbers in a table is just noise. To get any insight, you need to turn that data into something you can see ...
Blog Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 recap: Genie One, LTAP, Lakehouse//RT and every major launche Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 is done. Four packed days in San Francisco. If you missed the live stream or skipped the Moscone Center floor entirely, you missed a lot. It was a pretty eventful few days, ...
Blog N-1 Is the new patch Tuesday: rethinking upgrade policy for the AI era For twenty years, enterprise security rhythm has been set by the patch cycle. A vendor publishes fixes, security scores them, IT schedules them, and the backlog gets worked in order ...
Blog Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: why SaaS sprawl is no longer just an IT problem After 5+ years of Flexera’s State of ITAM report, one thing’s clear: there’s no shortage of daily challenges faced by ITAM teams. Business units now buy application...
Blog Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: How leaders are balancing AI cost optimization and governance Flexera’s newly-released 2026 State of ITAM Report reveals a growing disconnect: Organizations are investing heavily in AI tools, yet many lack the visibility and governance ne...
Blog Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: How teams are regaining control of cloud, SaaS and AI As organizations scale across SaaS, public cloud and AI, ITAM teams are being asked to do more than track assets: They’re expected to restore visibility, prove value and govern env...
Blog Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: How governance gaps are driving costly software audits Software audits aren’t new; nearly half (48%) of the organizations surveyed in Flexera’s 2026 State of ITAM Report said they had been audited in the last year. But they are b...
Report Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report: Insights from 500+ ITAM professionals Get the Flexera 2026 State of ITAM Report to see how IT teams manage rising costs, reduce audit risk and navigate AI adoption—and where to focus next to improve visibility and drive value.
Case Study Global analytics and publishing company optimizes cloud resources with Flexera Gain visibility into software usage and costs to make informed decisions and optimize cloud resources.
Industry Report The 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms For the second year in a row, Flexera has been named a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SaaS Management Platforms. Find out why.
Blog 13 best practices for using Snowflake query tags (2026) It is peak business hours and your Snowflake account is getting bombarded with heavy traffic. Queries are flying in left and right from BI dashboards, ETL pipelines, Snowpark workloads, scheduled jobs and a...
Blog How to: Create, publish and list Snowflake Cortex Knowledge Extensions (2026) Going through thousands of PDFs, research reports and internal documents manually to find a specific answer is slow, error-prone and does not scale. When you scale that up to an enterprise volume with ...
Blog Tokens, credits and the new economics of AI consumption: how SaaS pricing actually works Tokens, credits and the new economics of AI Seat-based SaaS pricing assumed something simple: more users, more value, more cost. AI broke that assumption. The minute copilots and ag...
Blog FinOps X 2026 recap: AI spend, tokenomics and the 20+ announcements you missed FinOps X 2026 has wrapped up and this recap will help you catch up on what happened throughout the session. The headline takeaway: AI spend has officially jumped from an engineering-level concern to a board...
Blog Is Enterprise SaaS Shifting From UX to Agentic Infrastructure? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I’m not sure I have the full answer, but the signals are hard to ignore. For a decade, Enterprise SaaS was won on design. Cleaner dashboards. Fewer clicks. Better onboarding. The product ...
Blog The risks of relying on AI alone for ITAM and FinOps AI is transforming how leaders interact with technology data. Natural language queries and automated recommendations make insights faster and more accessible. As a result, many executives are asking a reasonable question: “If AI can analyze ever...
Blog The rise of Tokenomics: understanding the economics of AI Why AI infrastructure scales on tokens, not requests Most technology leaders have spent decades thinking about scale through a familiar lens. More users create more requests. More re...
Blog What’s New at Flexera: May 2026 Flexera’s May 2026 updates deliver major enhancements across FinOps, SaaS Management, IT Asset Management, IT Visibility, and Security. Highlights include full stack AI cost manage...
Blog FinOps X 2026: Product announcements from Flexera and ProsperOps The sixth FinOps X (if you count the one in Barcelona) took place this week in sunny San Diego, CA. This year’s event was all about AI spend. Rapid adoption of generative AI SaaS (e.g. Claude, CoPilot), AI cloud infrastructure (e.g. GPUs), and A...
Case Study Augury improves AKS efficiency Optimize Kubernetes costs and performance across Azure workloads.
Blog How healthcare organisations can reduce SaaS sprawl and cloud waste Health organisations across Australia and New Zealand are seeing SaaS costs rise quickly while application duplication quietly expands across teams. Tools are often adopted to solve local problems, then become embedded, renewed and replicated else...
Blog The Invisible Inflation: Navigating the Moving Goalposts of AI Consumption The Shift from AI Performance to Predictability During the initial wave of enterprise AI adoption, strategic focus was almost exclusively centered on model quality and raw performance benchmarks. However, as the technology matures into the operati...
Blog AI is rewriting the rules of vulnerability management, are you ready? AI is speeding up cybersecurity. It’s also fundamentally changing how vulnerabilities are discovered, validated and exploited. Claude Mythos has shown that with advanced models entering the market, the industry is moving into a phase where weakn...
Blog Snowflake Summit 2026 recap: rebrands, acquisition and 25+ announcements Snowflake Summit 2026 took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from June 1 to June 4. “Making AI Real for Business” was the theme of the conference. The central message was:...
Blog How AI is changing SaaS management In December 2025, Anthropic’s coding agent started actually working. Not a demo. Not a research preview. The thing that had been promised for two years finally landed. You don’t have to take our word for it. Andrej Karpathy said the sa...
Blog AI execution depends on trusted technology data: Takeaways from ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 Explore key takeaways from ServiceNow Knowledge 2026, including the rise of agentic AI, autonomous workflows and why trusted technology data is essential for safe, scalable AI execution.
