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FlexNet Manager Reviews & Product Details

Software is one of the major items on any IT expense budget. Industry analysts estimate software license and maintenance fees represent 20 to 35% of total enterprise IT spend. The approach for managing a software asset portfolio is typically inefficient, relying on a local approach instead of a global one, and frequently involves spreadsheets or other ad hoc methods. The lack of efficient software asset management processes exposes enterprises to software audit liabilities and overspending on licenses and maintenance. Flexera FlexNet Manager software and IT asset management solutions manage and optimize enterprise software regardless of location, from the desktop to the data center to the cloud. We'll give your organization a growth path and roadmap for success. Manage and reduce spend on applications from Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, Symantec and SAP. Flexnet Manager Suite for Clients: Optimize your software licenses across desktops, laptops, and other client devices. FlexNet Manager for Clients automatically applies product use rights acquired through software license agreements from desktop vendors such as Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec. Product use rights can dramatically affect the number of licenses consumed by an organization, and must therefore be considered to minimize costs and ensure license compliance. Flexnet Manager Suite for Data Centers: It's difficult to know what’s happening across your data centers–until now. No matter what your challenges, FlexNet Manager for Data Centers can help you get control. You get visibility and insight for all your assets with our powerful, easy-to-use, role-based Data Analytics Dashboards. Flexnet Manager Suite for SAP Applications: Managing SAP® licenses can require significant time and effort. It's difficult to get an accurate handle on license requirements and position. And not knowing what applications are indirectly accessing SAP data can cost you big time. We’ll help you navigate SAP for business success. Flexnet Manager Suite for Engineering Apps: Concurrent licenses can be challenging to manage. But managing them effectively is essential for engineering and design applications. License denials can lead to project delays, lost revenue and decreased customer satisfaction. Lack of visibility can cause still more problems. FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications delivers a comprehensive solution.

Seller

Flexera

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Languages Supported

English

Overview by

Alexis Chiagouris

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

21 months

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Daniel W.

Director

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/17/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Flexnet Manager Review"

5/5

What do you like best about FlexNet Manager?

The ability to accurately detect applications deployed in their licensing context and achieve licensing perspectives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager?

Agent Management can be challenging; however, this is more specific to Client environments and the multitude of groups that need to be navigated. That said, the process is less challenging with certain organizations than others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhupesh G.

Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/21/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"A versatile License Manager."

4.5/5

What do you like best about FlexNet Manager?

Its ability to track CAL's through UAL capability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager?

not've "groupings" to Consumption tab of licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FlexNet Manager:

Only tool to best of my knowledge calculating the CAL's automatically by integrating with the UAL. Their recommendations to licenses are also one of the best in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Complete procurement and license consumption, a brilliant visual representation of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shahzad F.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/21/2020

"Excellent license asset manager"

4/5

What do you like best about FlexNet Manager?

Flexnet Manager is great for license compliance and software license optimization. An enterprise-level tool to help and facilitate maintaining and manage software and hardware licenses. Helps is Supplier management, procurement and inventory, audit as well as IT service management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager?

At times the updates and reporting on the data could have some lag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dnyaneshwar J.

Chief Product owner EDA Licensing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/6/2019

"Reliability and performance needs to be addressed for FNMEA "

3/5

What do you like best about FlexNet Manager?

Though it compiles a very good data on the licensing activities within EDA environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager?

Performance and reliability is always been a area of the improvement .

Several time it has been noticed that support is not up to the exceptions.

Lack in big data analysis which is must in the EDA industries as the data being used here is directly proportional to the money as company spent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sayan B.

Senior Advisor - IT Asset Management

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/6/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"All Rounder ITAM Solution, way ahead of competition !"

4.5/5

What do you like best about FlexNet Manager?

1) Libraries that is huge and also growing and improving!

2) You are trying your best, to keep FNMS relevant enough by adding new features()365,Sales Force etc)

3)I have been working on this solution since last 10 years, from Managesoft ECM days, I see a huge improvement in the overall UI, features and capability

4) The Portal is very good and learning and evaluations

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What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager?

1)The Case response and support needs to improve.

2) The Cognos Portal has limited models

3) We need better Application Suite recognition

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Mantautas D.

Software Asset Management Lead Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/22/2020

"3 years of extensive usage, both On-prem and SaaS solution"

4/5

What do you like best about FlexNet Manager?

Application recognition library is best in class

Technical support team is responsive and provide excellent customer service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager?

Enhancement policy is not clear: there is no clear communication how and when any enhancements will be implemented (or bugs fixed) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt J.

IT Asset Mgmt Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/14/2019

"FlexNet Manager... lots of information at your fingertips"

4.5/5

What do you like best about FlexNet Manager?

I started with using Excel sheets to track licenses, and that quickly got out of hand. This tool allows me to monitor software installs that I didn't know about and track usage for licenses that I am tracking closely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager?

It's only as good as the data that is being entered. There is a lot of "supervision" of the data to ensure accuracy. But that can't really be avoided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FlexNet Manager:

Flexera told us that 2-3 Full Time people should be dedicated to admin the system. But we haven't done that, and I feel it has created challenges for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm able to provide quick reporting to management. And we have proactively saved millions of dollars in software compliance fees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/7/2019

"Effective and user-friendly"

5/5

What do you like best about FlexNet Manager?

Straight forward interface. The interfacing is very user-friendly. It is also recognized by various big software publishers and this would definitely be the solution that is able to ensure those software publishers licenses are managed in an effective manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager?

There are still some bugs and does not address issues in very details. They could have a more descriptive listing on which software publishers's software it could or couldn't support. This is quite ambigous as stating the software publisher's brand alone may not be sufficient for us to be fully aware of the other software under this publisher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/8/2019

"Outstanding tool to manage easily software compliance and optimization"

5/5

What do you like best about FlexNet Manager?

The after sales service is outstanding. Product functionality and performance. IBM and Oracle verified.

Financial and organizational viability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager?

Time involve to setup and configure product. Need dedicate team to support both administration and operational functions of product. Still required effort to manage unrecognized software titles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FlexNet Manager:

Make sure you have resources to support both the operational and administration functions.

It automates the data collection but make you have sound processes in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Improve compliance and risk management and reduce spend. IBM sub capacity data accepted by IBM for compliance and optimization reporting. Can show bundled software. Proactively manage open source software vulnerabilities and GPL licenses. Can identify software vulnerabilities specific to our server environment and classify and prioritize risks for patching. Able to to automate governance processes and application usage to support an individual or a custom email reclamation campaign.

Full details on inventory visibility for SQL and Windows Server within the data center and host to virtual relationship. Can track Oracle Named User Plus.Supports Oracle licensing, specifically cluster relationship between host and virtual relationships. The solution can automate and create end user personas and reporting based upon usage re-align user license type to their roles and business requirements. Support of custom applications. It has the capability to automate software delivery of applications to users including O365. If I want to add cores or move a SQL instance from a physical machine to a virtual server farm, it can show me the licensing impact from a cost basis prior to making a change. Able to replace our IBM sub capacity inventory (ILMT/Big Fix) with FlexNet Manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.