Flexera One Reviews

I have used it at multiple companies. Primarily, we use the tool to ensure that we're compliant with all the vendors. The particular company I’m working for now is just for IBM. There are other team members who handle other manufacturers. Flexera One is great. It helps us keep an eye on our compliance. When we're audited, Flexera One's reports have been approved by IBM. We don't have to use ILMT, so it's been very helpful.

I like the way that Flexera connects our contracts to our purchases. It gives us the flexibility when creating the license records for each of the applications. I also appreciate the reporting features that it has. 

Flexera includes what I call canned reports, straight out of the box, but they also offer flexibility in creating custom reports. This allows us to provide management or whomever with more detailed information. 

During my tenure from 2018 to 2022 with Intel, my primary client was a global network with a significant presence in Europe, particularly Germany. I provided services using Flexera's FlexNet Manager, focusing on software asset management for them. From 2021 to 2023, while working with Process Inc., I continued to offer SAM services, utilizing Flexera's solutions, this time for VMware CRX.

The best thing about FlexNet Manager for my clients is its strong grip on managing licenses and ensuring they stick to their contracts. It helps me keep an eye on what licenses they own versus what they are using. This feature is like a compliance superhero, letting us know if everything's on track or if there are any issues. Knowing this helps us keep the software game in check, making sure they use what they have without overspending. FlexNet makes it easy to stay compliant and cost-effective.

I have a love-hate relationship with this solution. There are things I absolutely love about it and things that I would change if it were in my control. But, it's reliable for our needs and It's best in class. We did a POC on another product and that’s when I realized how good I had it with FlexNet when we compared it to Eracent.

Using the backend SQL DB, I've been able to provide BI and reporting that no other system can offer to the environment.

There are no valuable features that the product can provide, owing to which my company plans to move to ServiceNow or SAM Pro.

The hardware and connectors in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are required. FlexNet Manager's connectors are not that good, especially when compared to what Flexera provides its users in general. ServiceNow and SAM Pro's dashboards are very good compared to what FlexNet Manager offers.

With FlexNet Manager, it would have been good if its hardware and connectors were as good as ServiceNow and SAM Pro. ServiceNow and SAM Pro also serve as a CMDB. FlexNet Manager fails to serve as a CMDB, making it an area where improvements are required.

I mainly use it for software asset management.

It was in the cloud initially, but my latest one is going to be private.

I like the way it does its compliance. I like its discovery, and I like the fact that it keeps separate hardware and assets and provides easy accessibility to raw data.

• Multiple OSs
• The global presence of 25K servers and 100K desktops and laptops
• Managing the giant publishers like Microsoft/Adobe/SAP/VMware was a nightmare.
• Reporting the asset information and the current spend is also very difficult for my team with our homegrown discovery tools.

• Deployment of the agents was very easy, and we completed the entire estate agent installation in a month.

• Easy to manage the users/application, and the procurement data allows me to push the data to CMDB in a fraction of a second. 
• Workday integration is one of the best helps to manage the users against the systems.
• Audit readiness and 100% users and usage calculation helped the organization to save money.