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Guide The 2024 SaaS Roadmap Manage today’s SaaS explosion to fuel your organization’s success. Guide The 2024 Cloud Roadmap Achieve next-generation cloud cost management to fuel your organization’s success in 2024. Guide The Basics of IT Asset Management An essential guide on the past, present and future of ITAM Report Target software and cloud costs by uniting software asset management and FinOps Escalating software and cloud costs call for integration between SAM and FinOps teams. Find out how your enterprise can eliminate blind spots and operational silos and minimize waste through trustworthy data collaboration in this Gartner® report. White Paper Hybrid FinOps: The future of ITAM and FinOps, featuring Forrester Hybrid FinOps goes beyond focusing on public cloud spend to addressing full-stack tech spend. In this summary of our webinar with guest Forrester, we discuss how to begin realizing the many benefits of collaboration between your ITAM and FinOps teams. Guide Practical guide to SBOM Management In this practical guide to SBOM Management, you’ll learn how to manage software complexities and improve OSS compliance and risk management by tracking software producers, third-party code and internal modules. White Paper Strategic ITAM in complex environments Explore the market challenges currently plaguing organizations like yours, and learn how tools like Flexera One IT Asset Management can help drastically lower your software spend, rightsize software licenses and protect you from software audits. Guide Mastering your software: A guide to getting the most from your software assets Discover keys to streamlining operations and optimizing software, hardware and SaaS spend for major vendors across your hybrid estate—by leveraging the Flexera One ITAM solution. White Paper How to optimize your Salesforce relationship Salesforce is a major cost center for many organizations. Now you can realize savings by tracking spend, consumption and user activity across all your Salesforce instances with Flexera One Select for Salesforce. Guide Hybrid ITAM and FinOps: What they are and why they matter It’s important for organizations of any size running licensed software in the cloud to initiate and foster collaboration between their ITAM and FinOps teams. This benefits both teams and the entire organization. White Paper The modern alternative to ILMT: An introduction to Flexera One Select for IBM ILMT is notorious for its challenges, including lack of modern functionality and limited capabilities. This white paper discusses Flexera One’s modern alternative for managing IBM software licenses in the hybrid ITAM and FinOps world. White Paper 6 ways Flexera reduces cybersecurity risk for government agencies Rather than merely defending perimeters or offering incident responses, Flexera proactively reduces risk by eliminating blind spots and illuminating the entire attack surface, including vulnerabilities. Guide How to operationalize FinOps To operationalize FinOps requires scalable, repeatable processes driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Explore the research. Infographic Flexera 2023 Tech Spend Pulse Infographic Enterprises are adapting to continued inflationary pressures, shifting workplace dynamics, increased spend and the demand for innovation. See the latest tech spend highlights in the Flexera 2023 Tech Spend Pulse infographic. Report Flexera 2023 Tech Spend Pulse Digital transformation continues to evolve at an ever-increasing pace. Enterprises are adapting to continued inflationary pressures, shifting workplace dynamics, increased spend and the demand for innovation. Get the latest tech spend trends in the Flexera 2023 Tech Spend Pulse. Guide 2024 IT Budget Planning Guide It’s IT budget planning season and inflation remains high, a possible recession looms and the war in Ukraine continues. How can you plan a budget? Flexera’s guide will help. Guide Delving into Hybrid FinOps: Insights from the Flexera FinOps Think Tank Late in Q2 2023, Flexera gathered a select group of ITAM experts to discuss the expanding area of Hybrid FinOps. Topics included common obstacles and opportunities. This guide details the valuable discussion and advice. Guide Is Your Head in the Cloud? Learn how IT leaders can balance their business’ need to innovate and grow alongside saving valuable budget and avoiding unmitigated access to the cloud. Guide See Beyond the SaaS You Know Enrich your understanding of SaaS and learn how to harness this knowledge to supercharge your SaaS management. Report The Snow Software SaaS Management Survey 2023 Find out what over 1,000 IT decision-makers really think about the future of SaaS. Guide A Deep Dive Into the Snow SAM Solution Get a detailed look at how we provide a more comprehensive view and drive actionable insights on an organization’s technologies. White Paper Sustainable IT in a hybrid environment Sustainability is gaining momentum in our personal and work lives. This important white paper introduces key concepts relating to sustainable IT and its connection with corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. White Paper Illuminate your IT environment – the importance of a clean and curated CMDB From business services to the IT ecosystem, find out how CMDB powers better organizational decision making and feeds the tools and processes already integrated into your business. White Paper See why service mapping beats dependency mapping Get this white paper and learn to sort out dependency mapping and service mapping and understand how business service mapping powers your organization. Guide Get a practical guide to IT Visibility The tech landscape is both complex and dynamic. To maintain control and security, you need a clear and comprehensive view of IT landscape. Learn how you can gain deep visibility by collecting the right data and keeping it current. Guide Visibility: The key to effective IT estate management The SoftwareOne and Flexera guide discusses the future of IT visibility and how it can benefit your organization. The guide examines the importance and usefulness of gathering data through IT visibility, the evolution of ITAM and the new role of business intelligence reporting, and more. White Paper Unintended consequences of moving to the cloud See how ITAM and FinOps can optimise cloud spend, increase efficiency and reduce financial risk in this white paper by Flexera and ITAM Review. Learn how to uncover new insights, transform the value of ITAM and drive digital transformation. White Paper Getting cloud initiatives right in 2023 As digital transformation and workload migration continue at a higher pace than ever, cloud technologies are also rapidly growing in importance. Discover the key areas all ITAM professionals should matter ASAP. White Paper Flexera’s practical guide for a successful cloud journey Get tips and practical guidance to navigate the cloud journey enabling you to migrate the right workloads in the right order and effectively govern your entire technology asset portfolio. Guide Stay protected from software vulnerabilities with trusted IT visibility You need a comprehensive view of your IT estate in order to address software vulnerabilities. Discover how complete visibility, collecting the right data and keeping it current can help you succeed in today’s hybrid IT world. Infographic Overcoming a recession Many believe a global recession is coming in 2023, but few know how long it will last or how severe it may be. The threat, however, is impacting how professionals prioritize IT initiatives. A recent 2022 Flexera Insider Report uncovered current trends and what may change moving forward. White Paper Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization honored by Frost & Sullivan Frost & Sullivan have recognized Flexera’s Cloud Cost Optimization solution with the 2022 Best Practices Product Leadership Award in the Global Cloud Economics Industry. Infographic Infographic: Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study of Flexera One Infographic highlights the key findings from the study and offers insights into Flexera’s ability to deliver total visibility in complex hybrid ecosystems and more. Report The total economic impact of Flexera One To prove the impact of Flexera One on IT organizations, Flexera recently commissioned a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study of the Flexera One solution. eBook Empowering Your Hybrid World: 3 Key Challenges to Consider Learn how you can make the most effective decisions around operational efficiency and governance to support your transformation initiatives. eBook Building a Program Around SaaS and the Cloud Learn how to define goals and set the milestones necessary for formulating a roadmap to strategic ITAM. eBook Resolve Your SAP® Digital Access Challenges in Five Steps Choose the most cost-effective metric for your SAP licensing. eBook Five Steps to Resolving SAP® Digital Access Challenges Download our eBook to help you to rightsize your organization’s SAP licensing and choose the best license metric for your indirect/digital access scenarios. Guide A perspective on rightsizing your enterprise application software costs This guide focuses on the four largest enterprise software vendors with guidance on ensuring purchased entitlements are being used in the most effective and cost-efficient way. Guide Technology is Limitless, Intelligence is Priceless Determine priorities and investments across on-premises, SaaS and hybrid cloud. White Paper Kubernetes Cost Management Learn to identify key Kubernetes cost drivers and how to establish strategies for controlling and optimizing spend. White Paper Seven KPIs to Measure FinOps Success Read this white paper to identify the best practices of truly exceptional cloud cost management. White Paper The Definitive Best Practices This white paper provides a deeper look into the elements of a successful ITAM program implementation. Guide A Perspective on Rightsizing Your Hybrid Cloud Costs: The Shortcut to Cloud Cost Savings Gain insightful and practical tips on where to start when looking at rightsizing your hybrid cloud costs. Guide The People, Process and Technology for your ITAM Journey See how focusing on these essential elements are key to getting your ITAM program journey off the ground. Infographic Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report Infographic To remain competitive in this evolving digital world, organizations must make strategic decisions about their cloud migration, cloud architecture, usage of public clouds, effective tooling and cloud cost management. Download the 2022 State of the Cloud infographic to discover the challenges and opportunities that the cloud provides. Report Monthly Vulnerability Report Comprehensive monthly report based on data from Flexera’s Secunia Research team who produce valuable security advisories leveraged by users of Flexera’s Software Vulnerability Research and Software Vulnerability Manager solutions. Load More
Guide The 2024 Cloud Roadmap Achieve next-generation cloud cost management to fuel your organization’s success in 2024.
Report Target software and cloud costs by uniting software asset management and FinOps Escalating software and cloud costs call for integration between SAM and FinOps teams. Find out how your enterprise can eliminate blind spots and operational silos and minimize waste through trustworthy data collaboration in this Gartner® report.
White Paper Hybrid FinOps: The future of ITAM and FinOps, featuring Forrester Hybrid FinOps goes beyond focusing on public cloud spend to addressing full-stack tech spend. In this summary of our webinar with guest Forrester, we discuss how to begin realizing the many benefits of collaboration between your ITAM and FinOps teams.
Guide Practical guide to SBOM Management In this practical guide to SBOM Management, you’ll learn how to manage software complexities and improve OSS compliance and risk management by tracking software producers, third-party code and internal modules.
White Paper Strategic ITAM in complex environments Explore the market challenges currently plaguing organizations like yours, and learn how tools like Flexera One IT Asset Management can help drastically lower your software spend, rightsize software licenses and protect you from software audits.
Guide Mastering your software: A guide to getting the most from your software assets Discover keys to streamlining operations and optimizing software, hardware and SaaS spend for major vendors across your hybrid estate—by leveraging the Flexera One ITAM solution.
White Paper How to optimize your Salesforce relationship Salesforce is a major cost center for many organizations. Now you can realize savings by tracking spend, consumption and user activity across all your Salesforce instances with Flexera One Select for Salesforce.
Guide Hybrid ITAM and FinOps: What they are and why they matter It’s important for organizations of any size running licensed software in the cloud to initiate and foster collaboration between their ITAM and FinOps teams. This benefits both teams and the entire organization.
White Paper The modern alternative to ILMT: An introduction to Flexera One Select for IBM ILMT is notorious for its challenges, including lack of modern functionality and limited capabilities. This white paper discusses Flexera One’s modern alternative for managing IBM software licenses in the hybrid ITAM and FinOps world.
White Paper 6 ways Flexera reduces cybersecurity risk for government agencies Rather than merely defending perimeters or offering incident responses, Flexera proactively reduces risk by eliminating blind spots and illuminating the entire attack surface, including vulnerabilities.
Guide How to operationalize FinOps To operationalize FinOps requires scalable, repeatable processes driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Explore the research.
Infographic Flexera 2023 Tech Spend Pulse Infographic Enterprises are adapting to continued inflationary pressures, shifting workplace dynamics, increased spend and the demand for innovation. See the latest tech spend highlights in the Flexera 2023 Tech Spend Pulse infographic.
Report Flexera 2023 Tech Spend Pulse Digital transformation continues to evolve at an ever-increasing pace. Enterprises are adapting to continued inflationary pressures, shifting workplace dynamics, increased spend and the demand for innovation. Get the latest tech spend trends in the Flexera 2023 Tech Spend Pulse.
Guide 2024 IT Budget Planning Guide It’s IT budget planning season and inflation remains high, a possible recession looms and the war in Ukraine continues. How can you plan a budget? Flexera’s guide will help.
Guide Delving into Hybrid FinOps: Insights from the Flexera FinOps Think Tank Late in Q2 2023, Flexera gathered a select group of ITAM experts to discuss the expanding area of Hybrid FinOps. Topics included common obstacles and opportunities. This guide details the valuable discussion and advice.
Guide Is Your Head in the Cloud? Learn how IT leaders can balance their business’ need to innovate and grow alongside saving valuable budget and avoiding unmitigated access to the cloud.
Guide See Beyond the SaaS You Know Enrich your understanding of SaaS and learn how to harness this knowledge to supercharge your SaaS management.
Report The Snow Software SaaS Management Survey 2023 Find out what over 1,000 IT decision-makers really think about the future of SaaS.
Guide A Deep Dive Into the Snow SAM Solution Get a detailed look at how we provide a more comprehensive view and drive actionable insights on an organization’s technologies.
White Paper Sustainable IT in a hybrid environment Sustainability is gaining momentum in our personal and work lives. This important white paper introduces key concepts relating to sustainable IT and its connection with corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.
White Paper Illuminate your IT environment – the importance of a clean and curated CMDB From business services to the IT ecosystem, find out how CMDB powers better organizational decision making and feeds the tools and processes already integrated into your business.
White Paper See why service mapping beats dependency mapping Get this white paper and learn to sort out dependency mapping and service mapping and understand how business service mapping powers your organization.
Guide Get a practical guide to IT Visibility The tech landscape is both complex and dynamic. To maintain control and security, you need a clear and comprehensive view of IT landscape. Learn how you can gain deep visibility by collecting the right data and keeping it current.
Guide Visibility: The key to effective IT estate management The SoftwareOne and Flexera guide discusses the future of IT visibility and how it can benefit your organization. The guide examines the importance and usefulness of gathering data through IT visibility, the evolution of ITAM and the new role of business intelligence reporting, and more.
White Paper Unintended consequences of moving to the cloud See how ITAM and FinOps can optimise cloud spend, increase efficiency and reduce financial risk in this white paper by Flexera and ITAM Review. Learn how to uncover new insights, transform the value of ITAM and drive digital transformation.
White Paper Getting cloud initiatives right in 2023 As digital transformation and workload migration continue at a higher pace than ever, cloud technologies are also rapidly growing in importance. Discover the key areas all ITAM professionals should matter ASAP.
White Paper Flexera’s practical guide for a successful cloud journey Get tips and practical guidance to navigate the cloud journey enabling you to migrate the right workloads in the right order and effectively govern your entire technology asset portfolio.
Guide Stay protected from software vulnerabilities with trusted IT visibility You need a comprehensive view of your IT estate in order to address software vulnerabilities. Discover how complete visibility, collecting the right data and keeping it current can help you succeed in today’s hybrid IT world.
Infographic Overcoming a recession Many believe a global recession is coming in 2023, but few know how long it will last or how severe it may be. The threat, however, is impacting how professionals prioritize IT initiatives. A recent 2022 Flexera Insider Report uncovered current trends and what may change moving forward.
White Paper Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization honored by Frost & Sullivan Frost & Sullivan have recognized Flexera’s Cloud Cost Optimization solution with the 2022 Best Practices Product Leadership Award in the Global Cloud Economics Industry.
Infographic Infographic: Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study of Flexera One Infographic highlights the key findings from the study and offers insights into Flexera’s ability to deliver total visibility in complex hybrid ecosystems and more.
Report The total economic impact of Flexera One To prove the impact of Flexera One on IT organizations, Flexera recently commissioned a Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study of the Flexera One solution.
eBook Empowering Your Hybrid World: 3 Key Challenges to Consider Learn how you can make the most effective decisions around operational efficiency and governance to support your transformation initiatives.
eBook Building a Program Around SaaS and the Cloud Learn how to define goals and set the milestones necessary for formulating a roadmap to strategic ITAM.
eBook Resolve Your SAP® Digital Access Challenges in Five Steps Choose the most cost-effective metric for your SAP licensing.
eBook Five Steps to Resolving SAP® Digital Access Challenges Download our eBook to help you to rightsize your organization’s SAP licensing and choose the best license metric for your indirect/digital access scenarios.
Guide A perspective on rightsizing your enterprise application software costs This guide focuses on the four largest enterprise software vendors with guidance on ensuring purchased entitlements are being used in the most effective and cost-efficient way.
Guide Technology is Limitless, Intelligence is Priceless Determine priorities and investments across on-premises, SaaS and hybrid cloud.
White Paper Kubernetes Cost Management Learn to identify key Kubernetes cost drivers and how to establish strategies for controlling and optimizing spend.
White Paper Seven KPIs to Measure FinOps Success Read this white paper to identify the best practices of truly exceptional cloud cost management.
White Paper The Definitive Best Practices This white paper provides a deeper look into the elements of a successful ITAM program implementation.
Guide A Perspective on Rightsizing Your Hybrid Cloud Costs: The Shortcut to Cloud Cost Savings Gain insightful and practical tips on where to start when looking at rightsizing your hybrid cloud costs.
Guide The People, Process and Technology for your ITAM Journey See how focusing on these essential elements are key to getting your ITAM program journey off the ground.
Infographic Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report Infographic To remain competitive in this evolving digital world, organizations must make strategic decisions about their cloud migration, cloud architecture, usage of public clouds, effective tooling and cloud cost management. Download the 2022 State of the Cloud infographic to discover the challenges and opportunities that the cloud provides.
Report Monthly Vulnerability Report Comprehensive monthly report based on data from Flexera’s Secunia Research team who produce valuable security advisories leveraged by users of Flexera’s Software Vulnerability Research and Software Vulnerability Manager solutions.