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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Flexera Annual Vulnerability Review Report

The past year, 2022, was busy for cybersecurity, with a record number of security advisories published. Many significant vulnerabilities caused data breaches, ransomware attacks and other threats.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report

Cloud costs continue to grow, wasted spend remains high and budget pressure is increasing. What does that mean for the cloud? Get the latest cloud trends in the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report and learn how to succeed in economic volatility.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Predictions 2023: Cloud Computing

It’s no secret the cloud market is constantly evolving, and new developments are the new normal. Discover what Forrester experts say the future holds and why Flexera will be an essential player for FinOps practitioners in 2023.

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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.

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Flexera State of ITAM Report

As digital transformation pressures increase, high-functioning enterprises are leaning more and more on ITAM.

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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.

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Rightsize your 2023 IT budget for an uncertain economy

Budget planning can seem nearly impossible with so much disruption in the economy and the world. But Flexera has put together a useful budget guide that can help you successfully build a solid plan.

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Flexera a leader in cloud cost management and optimization

What are the top cloud cost management and optimization providers? Download the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization, Q3 2022. You’ll find that Flexera has come out a leader. 

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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.

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Flexera 2022 Tech Spend Pulse

With all that’s happening in technology and the world, how are budgets and digital transformation initiatives affected? Get an up-to-date view with the Flexera 2022 Tech Spend Pulse.

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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.

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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.

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Tackle 18 Cloud Challenges with Forrester’s Quick Start Cards

As a cloud leader in your organization, you could probably use quick answers on how to get moving on your most difficult challenges. You’ll find 18 answers in this handy report from Forrester.

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Top 10 Facts Tech Leaders Should Know About Cloud Cost Optimization

Cloud cost optimization is an easy win on your cloud management journey. This Forrester report shares 10 key facts you need to know to tackle your cloud costs.

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ITAM in a digitally transforming world

This infographic gives a quick overview of key findings from the Flexera 2022 State of ITAM Report.   

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Navigating your migration and the MSIX package process

Confused about how to migrate traditional Win32 applications projects to build MSIX packages? You’re not alone. A Developer’s Guide to MSIX answers the how and why of the features you’ll encounter during your migration.

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The 7 questions you must answer when planning your IT

Year after year, IT leaders plan without the needed visibility into their organizations’ IT infrastructures, the individual assets that comprise them, their per-unit costs and their many complex interdependencies. It’s time to break that cycle.

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Why DoD Chooses Flexera to Reduce IT Spend and Improve Security

Only Flexera delivers the IT visibility and software optimization that the Department of Defense trusts to reduce costs, improve data requirements, align resources and enhance security. See how the magic happens.

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Predict and Plan Accurately with Comprehensive IT Insights

Flexera’s unique and patented capabilities enable situational awareness around your technology investments, costs and security risks.

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Quality Data to Unified Value

This guide explains how Flexera’s focus on complete, quality asset data optimizes the performance of IT service management and IT financial management platforms.

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Exposed: IT Visibility and Vulnerability

This infographic highlights key takeaways from Flexera’s inaugural 2021 State of IT Visibility Report, which sheds light on what’s happening with information technology and the data that supports the vast array of business initiatives around the world.

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Perils of Forgoing Software License Management

According to a 2021 survey by GovLoop and Flexera, agencies at all levels of government continue to fall short of adequately managing software licenses.

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Optimizing the Performance and Value of Your ITSM and ITFM

By highlighting usage of technology across your enterprise, Flexera One helps you reallocate IT resources quickly and efficiently, fueling your innovation and growth.

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Cloudy IT Visibility? It’s Time for ITAM to Have a Seat at the Table

Understanding the risk and opportunities of cloud management—and how you can better align your IT asset management (ITAM) to C-level business objectives—are essential to continuing the rise of ITAM in the cloud arena.

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Flexera 2021 State of IT Visibility Report

The inaugural Flexera 2021 State of IT Visibility Report takes a deep dive into the latest IT asset management insights, including hybrid IT infrastructure and vulnerability trends.

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Implementing Flexera Solutions: A partnership for success

Flexera is committed to create a foundational success when implementing new technology. Achieving your desired business outcomes right from the start.

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Turbulence in the cloud? Get the right insights to optimize your cloud-first strategy

This infographic contains the top findings and highlights of the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report, from spend allocation to cost management and organizational strategies.

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Accelerate Your IT Transformation to Make it Leaner, Greener and More Cost Efficient

As public sector organisations strive to improve operational efficiencies and harness IT assets to enhance mission performance, one of their biggest obstacles is the growing complexity of their IT ecosystems.

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Flexera 2021 State of Tech Spend Report

Flexera’s 2021 IT spending survey – the second annual State of Tech Spend, gives insights into IT spending trends, challenges, and benchmarks that can help organizations make better decisions. This report will also highlight the dramatic changes since last year with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Preparing for 2021

We look at how you can focus on cost and value to gain a better understanding of the business. Download the white paper to discover the 7 strategies and immediate tactics to be fully prepared for 2021.

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Paving the Way for Digital Transformation with the Cloud

Download this paper today to help you make informed cloud decisions that pave the way for a successful digital journey.

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How To Limit Security Lapses and Financial Waste Through Enterprise License Management

Ineffective license management means that agencies often don’t know which licenses are actively being used, how many licenses are up to date, and if they really need everything that they’re paying for. Learn how enterprise license management can make a difference at your agency.

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Essential Strategies for Managing Cloud Costs

Managing cloud costs is key to reducing the 35 percent in wasted cloud spend by enterprises each year. Learn essential strategies to managing cloud spend in this white paper.

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Proactive Steps for Managing Cloud Costs

This Flexera and ITAM Review white paper offers proactive steps to increase cloud visibility and reduce spend.

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Anatomy of a Security Advisory

Since 2002, Flexera’s Secunia Research team has been delivering security advisories that provide reliable, curated, and actionable vulnerability intelligence. Applied within several Flexera solutions for different use cases, Secunia Research data enables you to focus on what truly matters by distilling vulnerability findings down to a single advisory perfect for prioritizing remediation efforts.

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Software License Optimization for Federal Agencies

Federal agencies spend billions of dollars a year on software. This white paper discusses why waste occurs and the benefits of automated software optimization.

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The Flexera 2020 CIO Priorities Report: European Edition

This report explores the thinking of CIOs and senior IT executives across Europe regarding a variety of pressing issues, such as how to address the challenges digital transformation presents and the impact of that transformation on IT investment, people, and technology.