New in IT Visibility: Drill Down from Software Evidence to Associated Devices

We're excited to share an enhancement that makes it faster to see exactly which devices are behind any software evidence record in IT Visibility.

Device Counts added to Software Evidence

IT Visibility now shows a Device Counts column on the Software Evidence page (Applications & Evidence > IT Visibility Software > Software Evidence). It shows how many devices have that evidence. Click the count to open the Devices page, filtered to only the devices associated with that evidence record and evidence type.

You'll find Device Counts in:

• The Installer Evidence, File Evidence, and OS Evidence views, where it appears as a column.
• The detail page of an individual evidence record, where it appears as a value.

Why this matters: Previously, you had to search separately to find out where a piece of software evidence was installed. Now one click takes you from "what's installed" to "where it's installed." This helps when you're validating recognition, looking into unexpected software, or preparing for an audit.

With this update, you can:

• Go straight from an evidence record to its associated devices.
• Search within just the filtered device records, with the evidence filter still applied.
• Add more column filters and keep the evidence filter in place.
• Export only the filtered devices with Download Grid Data (CSV). The file is named Devices-Filtered-by-SW-Evidence-Export-<date>.csv.

Note: The summary card and group buttons aren't shown on the filtered Devices page.

For more information, see Identifying Applications Using Evidence and Identifying Devices Using Evidence.

Release Notes

IT Visibility - TI Platform: Report enhancements – Live Now!

From Current-State Visibility to Historical Technology Intelligence. Introducing Integrated Trend Views Across Hardware, Software & Vulnerability Insights.

As customers use our Hardware and Software Portfolio reports to understand their technology environment, we wanted to take the experience beyond a point-in-time view and help them understand how their environment is evolving over time. Historical trend data collection began in 2025, and we now have approximately a year of datasets that enables us to provide meaningful historical comparisons across key technology and security metrics. With this enhancement, we have integrated Trend Views directly into the main Hardware Portfolio, Software Portfolio, and Software Vulnerability Insights reports, bringing current-state and historical perspectives together in a single reporting experience.

Customers can now track trends across:

• Installations
• Devices Inventoried
• End of Life
• End of Sale
• Obsolescence
• Total Vulnerabilities
• CVEs

The trend views also support the common dimensions and filters available within the respective reports, allowing customers to move beyond overall trends and monitor how changes are occurring across different parts of their environment.

Why we introduced this enhancement

Previously, portfolio reporting primarily helped customers answer:

“What does my technology environment look like today?”

With a year of historical data now available, we can help answer an equally important question:

“How is my technology and security environment changing over time?”

This enhancement allows customers to:

• Track portfolio growth and changes in installations and inventoried devices.
• Monitor lifecycle exposure over time across End of Life, End of Sale, and Obsolescence.
• Understand vulnerability trends by monitoring changes in Total Vulnerabilities and CVEs.
• Identify emerging patterns and changes rather than relying solely on current-state numbers.
• Use dimensions and filters to understand where changes are occurring.
• Connect historical context with current-state insights to support technology planning, lifecycle management, and security prioritization.

Value

Customers can now access historical trends alongside their current portfolio and vulnerability insights, without needing to navigate to a separate experience to understand how key metrics have changed.

This provides a more complete view of the technology environment by combining current state + historical movement + lifecycle exposure + vulnerability trends in the reports customers already use.

Release Date: 09/25/2026

Product Documentation:  TBD

Release Notes: TBD

IT Visibility - TI Platform: New Report Update – Live Now!

Lifecycle Intelligence: One View. Better Decisions!

Previously, customers looking to understand lifecycle exposure had to navigate between separate Proactive SW/HW EOL/End-of-Sale and Obsolescence Guidance and Strategic SW/HW Insights reports to answer related questions what is already at risk, what is coming next, how severe is the exposure, and where should they prioritize action. While both reports addressed important aspects of lifecycle management, the split experience required users to connect insights across multiple reports.

As part of our continuous review of customer feedback, usage patterns, and input from internal stakeholders, we identified an opportunity to simplify this experience and make lifecycle intelligence more actionable. We have therefore consolidated the Proactive and Strategic lifecycle capabilities into a single, enhanced intelligence experience.

The new Software Lifecycle Intelligence and Hardware Lifecycle Intelligence bring lifecycle visibility, severity analysis, roadmap planning, and organizational impact together in one place. This creates a more connected user journey—from understanding current lifecycle exposure and prioritizing risk to planning remediation, technology transitions, procurement, and future budgets.

What’s New & Enhanced

• One consolidated lifecycle experience: Combines the capabilities previously distributed across Proactive and Strategic Hardware/Software Lifecycle reports.
• Complete lifecycle visibility: Understand current exposure as well as upcoming End-of-Sale/EOL and obsolescence milestones.
• Severity-based replacement prioritization: Identify Critical and High severity devices/models or Software’s requiring attention.
• Hardware/Software lifecycle roadmap: Visualize upcoming lifecycle milestones to support replacement, procurement and support technology transition planning.
• Organizational analysis: Understand exposure across business services, business units, cost centers, and locations.
• Detailed drill-through: Move from roadmap-level model/release insights to lifecycle dates and affected device information.
• Lifecycle-focused analysis: Easily switch between End-of-Sale/End-of-Life and Obsolete perspectives to focus analysis on the required lifecycle stage.

Overall Value

Both Software and Hardware Lifecycle Intelligence reports create a single destination for software and hardware lifecycle visibility, risk prioritization, remediation planning, and future technology planning helping organizations move from simply identifying lifecycle exposure to taking proactive action.

Note: Customer action required!

• For Software Lifecycle Intelligence, update reports and widgets that use EOL Criticality to use EOL Severity.
• For Hardware Lifecycle Intelligence, update reports and widgets that use Last Obsolete Criticality to use Obsolete Severity.

The older fields remain available under the Deprecated section for backward compatibility but are planned for permanent removal in January. After removal, reports and widgets that still reference these old fields will stop working.

Release Date: 09/25/2026

Product Documentation:  https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/it-visibility/it-visibility-with-tip-reports/working-with-tip-reports/technology-intelligence-platform-report-descriptions/hardware-lifecycle-intelligence , https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/it-visibility/it-visibility-with-tip-reports/working-with-tip-reports/technology-intelligence-platform-report-descriptions/software-lifecycle-intelligence

Release Notes: https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/feature-list/new-features-in-2026/september-2026#new-software-lifecycle-intelligence-and-hardware-lifecycle-intelligence-reports-now-available

Official release of FlexNet Inventory Agent 26.4.0

We are pleased to announce the release of the FlexNet Inventory Agent 26.4.0.

Release Date: EU/AP: 2026-10-14, NA: 2026-10-21

This release includes:

• Web metering module metadata
• FlexNet Inventory Agent Oracle inventory performance improvements
• Immediate upload of web metering data
• Fix for KRM agent and HELM chart deployment failures in OpenShift environments
• Fix for inventory settings download logic
• Fix for Unix software process scan preference name
• Fix for duplicate Unix process inventory records
• Fix for Usage Agent termination on Unix-like systems
• Bundled software version updated

Customer Impact:

• Previously, the web metering module executable lacked descriptive metadata. Now, the webmetering.exe file includes version information, file descriptions, and copyright details. This enhancement provides better visibility and identification of the module for administrators and system tools.
• Previously, Oracle component scanning could consume excessive system resources, leading to long execution times or potential system instability in large environments. Now, the scanning workflow has been optimized to reduce memory and CPU utilization. This enhancement provides faster inventory results and improved host stability during Oracle discovery.
• Previously, web metering data files were saved locally and only processed during the scheduled "Upload client files" task, which could lead to file accumulation if the schedule fell outside working hours. Now, the web metering module triggers an upload immediately after a data file is generated. This enhancement provides more timely data availability and prevents the buildup of unsent files on the device.
• Previously, the removal of an OpenShift extension prevented the Flexera Kubernetes Agent from running as a root user, causing deployment failures in OpenShift environments. This release resolves this issue.
• Previously, there was an issue where the agent would always download the InventorySettings.xml file regardless of whether it had changed. This release resolves this issue.
• Previously, there was an issue where the preference PerformUnixSoftwareProcessScan was mislabeled as PerformUnixSwProcessScan in the command line options, causing the agent to miss some file evidence. This release resolves this issue.
• Previously, there was an issue where Unix process inventory data could include inconsistent property details, leading to duplicate records when the same executable was discovered through both file system scanning and process detection. This release resolves this issue.
• Previously, there was an issue where the Usage Agent could unexpectedly terminate on Unix-like operating systems while reading configuration settings. This release resolves this issue.
• The OpenSSL, Expat, libcurl, containerd, grpc and Go third party libraries bundled with the agent have been updated in this release to address security vulnerabilities.

Product Documentation: Agent Documentation 

Please find more about the content of this release in the Release Notes.

SaaS Custom Connectors Catalog & Implementation Guide

Flexera One SaaS Management supports a growing range of out-of-the-box connectors, but there are still cases where organizations need to work with SaaS applications that do not yet have a dedicated connector.

To help with those scenarios, we’ve put together the attached SaaS Custom Connectors Catalog & Implementation Guide. It provides example approaches for collecting SaaS user, usage, license and seat data using custom connectors and data imports, including API and CSV options, authentication patterns, pagination details, response examples, mapping considerations and known limitations. The goal is to give customers and partners a practical starting point for extending coverage to additional SaaS applications where suitable APIs, exports or reports are available.

These examples are intended as exploratory guidance and have not been fully tested or certified by Flexera. If you’ve tested one of the documented approaches in your own environment, we’d love to hear about your experience. Feedback on what worked, what required adjustment, or where you ran into limitations will help us improve the guidance and better understand which custom connector approaches are proving most useful in practice.

IT Visibility - TI Platform: Windows Catalog Alignment Update: Market Name Added to Software Reports

As part of ongoing catalog alignment efforts between ARL and Technopedia, Windows catalog entries have been standardized by removing version information from product names. This change supports a more consistent software catalog experience across Flexera solutions.

Customers whose reporting or integrations previously relied on product names for product-version identification may need to review these changes and utilize the updated catalog attributes and identification methods to ensure consistent reporting and data interpretation. To ensure and easily identify and analyze Windows versions, the Market Name field (also known as Version Group) is being added alongside Product Name in key Power BI software reports.

What's Changing?

The Market Name column will now be available next to Product Name, making it easier to:

• Identify Windows version
• Filter and segment software inventory
• Perform version-based reporting and analysis

Reporting Guidance:

The Market Name field is now available in both the Software Device and Software Version tables. If you are building a summary table or report for Device Operating System primarily using the Software Device table, we recommend using the Market Name from the Software Device table to ensure the names and counts remain aligned. 

Reports Updated

The following OOTB reports are enhanced:

• Comprehensive Software Inventory
• Software Portfolio Overview
• Operating System Insights
• Proactive SW EOL and Obsolescence Guidance
• Software Sprawl
• Version Update Planner
• Strategic SW Insights
• Software Procurement Guardian
• Business Service Insights
• Cloud Inventory Overview       
• Comprehensive Hardware Inventory
• Device Search
• Hardware Portfolio Overview
• Host and VM Relationship
• Proactive HW End of Sale and Obsolescence Guidance
• Software Vulnerability Insights

For Custom Reports

Customers using custom Power BI reports are encouraged to include the Market Name field in their report filters and visualizations to simplify version-level reporting.

Customer Impact

The Market Name field is already available within the data model. This enhancement simply makes it more visible within out-of-the-box reports, helping customers maintain version-level visibility following the catalog alignment changes.

Summary

The addition of Market Name to Power BI software reports ensures customers can continue to easily identify and report on Windows versions while benefiting from a more standardized catalog structure across Flexera solutions.

Release Date: 09/04/2026

Linked to: https://community.flexera.com/s/feed/0D5PL00000w4nNJ0AY

IT Visibility – TI Reporting: Enhancement - Container Software Visibility Live Now!

The Container Inventory Overview Report now extends infrastructure visibility by providing insights into the software deployed inside container workloads, helping organizations understand not only where containers run, but also what technologies they contain.

The report includes:

• Top 10 Software Releases by Containers – Identify the most widely deployed software releases across container environments.
• Software Technology Currency for Containers – Evaluate current software versions and identify opportunities to upgrade.
• Obsolete Software Releases by Year – Track software releases that have reached obsolete status to proactively reduce operational and security risk.
• Software Releases Summary Table – View a consolidated inventory of software releases, associated versions, lifecycle status

This visibility enables teams to improve software governance, strengthen compliance and reduce risks associated with outdated software running inside containers.

Release Date: 09/04/2026

Product Documentation: https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/it-visibility/it-visibility-with-tip-reports/working-with-tip-reports/technology-intelligence-platform-report-descriptions/ , https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/it-visibility/it-visibility-with-tip-reports/working-with-tip-reports/technology-intelligence-platform-report-descriptions/container-inventory-overview , https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/it-visibility/it-visibility-with-tip-reports/working-with-custom-reports/working-with-measures#measures-available-for-hardware-report-type , https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/it-visibility/it-visibility-with-tip-reports/understanding-report-types#hardware

Release Notes: https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/feature-list/new-features-in-2026/september-2026#software-visibility-now-available-in-container-inventory-overview-report

Previous reference Blog: https://community.flexera.com/s/feed/0D5PL00000umX8Y0AU

IT Visibility - TI Reporting: Restore Deleted Custom Reports – Live Now!

Recover deleted custom reports with confidence.

We’ve introduced the ability to restore deleted custom reports in TI Platform, helping users recover reports that were accidentally removed without having to recreate them from scratch.

Users with the Manage custom reports role can now access a Deleted Reports List from the Custom Reports page, review reports deleted within the last 30 days, and restore them when needed. Once restored, reports are returned to the regular Reports List and can be used again.

This enhancement improves report resiliency and user control, reducing the impact of accidental deletion and helping preserve the effort invested in building custom reports.

Key considerations:

• Deleted reports are recoverable for 30 days.
• Reports deleted beyond 30 days are permanently removed.
• Restoration requires the Manage custom reports role.
• If a report with the same name already exists, the restored report is automatically renamed with _restored.
• Restoration is processed asynchronously and may take some time depending on Power BI processing.

Value:

Users now have a simple recovery mechanism for accidental report deletion, reducing rework and providing greater confidence when managing custom reporting assets.

Release Date: 09/03/2026

Product Documentation: https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/it-visibility/it-visibility-with-tip-reports/working-with-custom-reports/restoring-a-deleted-custom-report

Release Notes: https://docs.flexera.com/flexera-one/feature-list/new-features-in-2026/august-2026