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Device42 vs Flexera One comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.6
Device42 enhances IT management with cost efficiency and quick issue resolution, despite challenges in quantifying savings and integration.
Sentiment score
6.2
Flexera One improved efficiency, reduced workforce needs, cut cloud costs, accelerated FinOps decisions, and enhanced governance, yielding 30% returns.
The TCO calculations based on five years and three years have yielded a remarkable ROI compared to on-premise workload, validating the business case submission to the customer.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
I can confidently say at least 30% is the savings which we have seen.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Device42 is a fully-featured tool that includes everything we need with powerful auto-discovery and intelligent application dependency mapping.
Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo
Strengthened governance and accountability in my organization.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
I have seen a return on investment with Flexera One, as we need fewer employees.
Item Analyst at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.1
Device42's customer support is generally dependable and helpful, with quick responses and knowledgeable assistance, though occasionally lacking detail.
Sentiment score
5.6
Flexera One customer service is generally praised for responsiveness, though experiences vary, with some noting time zone issues.
Customer support for Device42 is fantastic.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Our internal teams have also leveraged the platform which is available for the customers and the partners to onboard them, have a bit of training on the tool and then ask any specific questions to either the TAM or the customer support team.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
When it comes to resolving technical issues, the support team is responsive and always available to help.
Cloud Presales Engineer at Activedge Technologies Ltd.
The customer support for Flexera One is provided by a very responsive and solution-oriented support team.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
They were prompt in getting back to us.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I always get very positive marks from a customer support perspective regarding Flexera One, with no issues.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Device42 effectively supports diverse, growing needs across locations with strong scalability, though some suggest enhancing horizontal scalability.
Sentiment score
7.2
Flexera One is highly scalable, popular in Europe and the US, and efficiently supports large enterprise growth, despite on-premise challenges.
It is very much scalable and allows you to design your discovery solution without facing any challenge.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Device42's scalability works well for me; if I want to add more resources, such as a Remote Collector for a new site, I can easily connect it to the main appliance.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is good and with the increase in the size of the environment, it has definitely grown and changed over the last couple of years.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Flexera One is highly scalable, meaning it can grow with my organization's needs.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Device42 is praised for stability and reliability, with minimal downtime and regular updates enhancing functionality despite installation challenges.
Sentiment score
8.2
Flexera One is highly stable, though users note occasional data accuracy issues, but upgrades are resolved quickly.
Device42 is stable and has been reliable for my organization.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Device42 has been pretty stable.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Stability for Device42, in terms of reliability, is generally acceptable.
Solutions Architect at KAF Group
The stability of the cloud version, which is what I'm currently using, is almost always reliable.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Flexera One is stable and runs reliably, but I think sometimes when it is not reporting properly, that can become an issue for customer data that is not being processed properly.
Item Analyst at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Device42 requires improvements in deployment, interface, operations, integration, and documentation for enhanced efficiency and user experience.
Flexera One needs enhancements in asset discovery, support times, reporting, automation, integrations, hardware handling, mainframe support, and licensing.
Device42 could benefit from improvements, specifically regarding the deployment of the software, which sometimes can be hectic and become time-consuming.
Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo
I foresee areas of improvement for the agent-less solution, which could be very useful for those organizations that might not allow configuring an agent in their source machines for workload discovery.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
From an ITSM and ticketing perspective, I would say if there were integrations available, that would have really been better because a lot of times what we end up seeing or leveraging is ServiceNow because they have that native or out of the box capability, and even Freshservice has that capability out of the box.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
For one of my customers, the monitoring aspect has been tricky due to the need for live database information, which could be enhanced using AI technology.
Consultant at KPMG
One feature I would like to see in the tool is the ability to handle everything in one place.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It should provide a single pane of glass across cost, optimization, comments, and sustainability.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
 

Setup Cost

Device42's pricing is generally cost-effective but can be costly with add-ons, appealing mostly to smaller device organizations.
Flexera One provides competitive, value-driven pricing for ITAM, ideal for small to medium organizations, with some transparency concerns.
Compared to other competitors, it does not cost much, and I would recommend it from a cost perspective.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
For example, I felt the BMC Discovery pricing was quite high.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable.
Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo
They've restructured how it's licensed, making it more fair.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was very fair for the value that was received.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that the cost is not straightforward.
Back End Developer at Nestlé
 

Valuable Features

Device42 offers automatic IT asset discovery, integration, real-time visualization, and AI-enhanced features for comprehensive hybrid environment management.
Flexera One offers comprehensive reporting, asset discovery, and multi-cloud management, enhancing cost savings, resource efficiency, and IT asset management.
Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
We have leveraged that to discover IT assets such as physical servers, VMs, network devices, containers, storage devices, the applications, cloud resources and their relationships or their dependencies with each other and to the outside.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Device42 has positively impacted our organization by helping us become one of the best companies for asset management and inventory for the enterprise businesses we work with.
Cloud Presales Engineer at Activedge Technologies Ltd.
Sometimes I see cost savings in excess of 40 to 60 percent, with resources also in the same percentage area, depending on what the use case is and how much work and preparation was put into actually designing it appropriately for the use of the tool.
Flexera includes what I call canned reports, straight out of the box, but they also offer flexibility in creating custom reports.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The feature that I find most valuable in Flexera One is the discovery, which is crucial from an ITAM point of view to capture the entire environment and all the software installed in my customer's environment.
Consultant at KPMG
 

Categories and Ranking

Device42
Ranking in IT Asset Management
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management Databases (2nd), IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools (3rd), Data Center Infrastructure Management (1st)
Flexera One
Ranking in IT Asset Management
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
SaaS Management Platforms (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the IT Asset Management category, the mindshare of Device42 is 4.2%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Flexera One is 4.6%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Asset Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Device424.2%
Flexera One4.6%
Other91.2%
IT Asset Management
 

Featured Reviews

Manmohan Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Granular discovery has ensured confident workload migration and optimized cloud move group planning
Device42 offers the best features for workload assessment, particularly useful for cloud-to-cloud workload or on-premise data center workload, especially when planning for workload migration to the public cloud. For application and infrastructure discovery, Device42 has enabled me to know the number of machines running in the on-premise environment and has managed to capture complete utilization metrics or trends of their utilization. This has benefited me in right-sizing systems for my public cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) planning, providing me granularity to right-size these systems while planning a migration to the public cloud. Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud. Device42 has improved my migration projects by providing granularity around system dependencies that gave me confidence knowing which systems communicate with each other parked in a particular move group. My move group planning became so robust that I am not leaving any system behind in the on-premise data center from my planning, which saves a lot of time and effort, leading to cost optimization—a value addition.
TarunKumar9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Back End Developer at Nestlé
Unified insights have cut cloud waste and now drive daily data‑driven decisions
Flexera One offers a very complex yet powerful platform that manages everything at once. I love that it particularly finds and lists all software, hardware, and cloud services in one place. It also allows me to manage my cloud bill by taking all data from different sources and cleaning it in a standard format. The feature that stands out most for me in my day-to-day work is the asset discovery and self-service user interface. The self-service user interface is straightforward and easy to use, providing a marketplace presence that helps automate post-provisioning and integration with ITSM. I would also add that the asset discovery capabilities provide good asset discovery functionalities, which allow data import from beacons and agents installed. This has been useful for many users in getting a comprehensive view of their assets across different clouds.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Retailer
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise20
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Device42?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable. I do not know if a small organization would be able to afford it, but I presume it would also be co...
What needs improvement with Device42?
Device42 can be improved by adding more reporting features and architectural diagrams. If visual representations for application dependencies could be incorporated, that would be helpful.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FlexNet Manager?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was very fair for the value that was received, and the pricing and implementation, especially in the early days, was very well rece...
What needs improvement with FlexNet Manager?
People are pretty active from a product feedback perspective, so there is a variety of different features and things that I am sure could be improved, but I do not have one directly in mind.
What is your primary use case for FlexNet Manager?
My main use case for Flexera One is enterprise cost controls, as well as complete visibility and control across all public and private cloud environments. A recent project with a customer that was ...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

No data available
FlexNet Manager Suite, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises, Flexera SaaS Manager
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Computershare, Concur, Doosan, Fitch Ratings Inc., Fujitsu, HomeAway, Jasper Wireless, Mercedes-Benz, Square, Twitch, UCSB, Zayo Group Inc.
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