Now available on demand: The new Microsoft stack demands new visibility before renewal

Last Thursday, Rich Gibbons and Jeffrey West explored how to prepare for your next Microsoft renewal and put yourself in a stronger position before negotiations begin. 

If there’s one point we’d leave you with, it’s this: Don’t wait for Microsoft to start the renewal conversation. 

And these days, that means looking well beyond your Microsoft 365 license count. You need a clear picture across Azure, data center licensing, end-user computing and, increasingly, consumption-based AI services. 

If you'd like to revisit anything we covered or take the next step, here are a few resources to help: 

Watch the webinar on demand

Revisit the discussion with Rich Gibbons and Jeffrey West, including where overspend can hide, what data you need and how far ahead of your renewal you should start preparing. 

Get the Microsoft licensing best-practices guide 

Practical guidance to help you understand your Microsoft licensing position and prepare for your next renewal. 

See how Flexera optimized its own Microsoft estate 

See how we used Flexera One to uncover opportunities across our Microsoft estate and make more informed licensing decisions. 

And if your renewal is approaching and you'd like to talk through your options, we'd be happy to continue the conversation. 

Get expert guidance on Microsoft licensing >>

Now available on demand: Best practices for scaling ServiceNow operations without overengineering or burnout

If you missed the live discussion, the replay is now available. In Best practices for scaling ServiceNow operations without overengineering or burnout, Clayton Starko and James Dalley discuss how organizations can simplify workflows, prioritize automation, reduce reporting noise, clarify ownership, and protect team capacity.

It’s a useful watch if your team is trying to scale ServiceNow value without adding unnecessary complexity, technical debt, or operational strain. 

You can watch this session on demand, along with all previous recordings, here. Our next session is on December 1, where we’ll explore how to govern SaaS when ServiceNow is your system of record.

Flexera's Snow Atlas Office Hours (Topic: Using Your Data – Reporting Best Practices) Tuesday, November 17th.

Hello, join us to get more value from Snow Atlas with a monthly, hands-on session designed around the topics that matter most to your team.

Hosted by our SMEs, these sessions are built to help you accelerate time to value, adopt new features, and solve your toughest use cases alongside peers. Each session is 30 minutes of focused training followed by 30 minutes of open Q&A and discussion. Giving you the opportunity to learn best practices and get your real-world questions answered in the same hour.

For this call, our topic is Using Your Data – Reporting Best Practices. Now that your data is healthy, your entitlements are in and you understand your license position, we'll show you how to put that data to work. We'll cover choosing the right reports, building a regular reporting rhythm with scheduled reports, flagging licenses and agreements that expire in the next 90, 60 or 30 days, sending reports to people outside Snow Atlas, delivering reports to SharePoint to feed Power BI dashboards, and sharing reports (that you have set criteria and customised with filters) with colleagues.

Please share with your colleagues if they are interested in joining.

Tuesday, November 17th at 10:00am ET / 3:00pm GMT

This session will focus on Using Your Data – Reporting Best Practices. Click the link attached to add the meeting to your calendar.

What to expect

• 60 minutes — 30 min training, 30 min live Q&A and open discussion
• Led by Snow Atlas experts — practical guidance, not slideware
• Bring your questions — real answers to real-world reporting, configuration, and optimization challenges
• Exclusively for Snow Atlas customers — hosted live on Microsoft Teams

Why attend

• Faster time to value from the features you're already paying for
• Direct access to product and services experts in a live, interactive format
• Practical, repeatable best practices you can apply immediately
• A touchpoint with the Snow Atlas team

Any questions, please ask here or email Nancy at Nabercrombie@flexera.com.

Tomorrow: Best practices for scaling ServiceNow operations without over-engineering or burnout

More workflows. More reports. More automation. More approvals. More exceptions. But adding more does not always create a stronger operating model.

Tomorrow, we’re hosting a practical conversation on how to scale ServiceNow operations sustainably by simplifying workflows, focusing automation on the right problems, clarifying ownership, and protecting team capacity.

What is the biggest blocker in your organization today: backlog growth, automation requests, reporting that does not drive action, unclear ownership, or stretched team capacity?

There’s still time to join the discussion

Live webinar: The new Microsoft stack demands new visibility before renewal

November 5, 2026 

Microsoft renewals are becoming harder to navigate. New bundles, rising prices and growing audit pressure make it essential to understand what you own, what you use and where you may be overspending.

Join Rich Gibbons, Head of Microsoft Intelligence at Synyega, and Jeffrey West, Solutions Advisory Director Data & Content at Flexera on 5 November for a practical webinar on closing visibility gaps, uncovering savings and building a stronger position before your next Microsoft renewal.

You can register for the session here.

Live webinar: Best practices for scaling ServiceNow operations without over-engineering or burnout

November 3, 2026

As ServiceNow environments grow, teams are often asked to do more with the same resources.

More workflows, more automation requests, more reporting needs, and more stakeholder expectations can quickly create operational drag. 

The challenge is not simply how to scale the platform. It is how to scale ServiceNow operations sustainably, without adding unnecessary complexity, increasing technical debt, or burning out the team. Join Clayton Starko and James Dalley on November 3 for a practical discussion on simplifying workflows, prioritizing automation, clarifying ownership, and protecting team capacity. 

Here’s a question for you: what is making it hardest to scale your ServiceNow operations right now: backlog growth, automation requests, reporting noise, unclear ownership, or team capacity? 

Register for this session and access recordings of all previous sessions here.

Flexera's Snow Atlas Office Hours (Topic: License Compliance & Optimization) Tuesday, October 20 at 10:00am, ET/3:00pm, GMT

You are invited to our monthly Snow Atlas session designed around the topics that matter most to your team.

Hosted by our SME’s, these sessions are built to help you accelerate time to value, adopt new features, and solve your toughest use cases alongside peers. Each session is 30 minutes of focused training followed by 30 minutes of open Q&A and discussion — so you can learn best practices and get your real-world questions answered in the same hour.

For this call, our topic is License Compliance and Optimization. We will discuss effective license position (ELP), entitlements vs consumption, analysing your position, opportunities to optimize, and other best practices.

Please share with your colleagues if they are interested in joining.

Tuesday, October 20 at 10:00am, ET/3:00pm, GMT

This session will focus on License Compliance & Optimization.

Click the link below to add the meeting to your calendar.

What to expect

• 60 minutes — 30 min training, 30 min live Q&A and open discussion
• Led by Snow Atlas experts — practical guidance, not slideware
• Bring your questions — real answers to real estate, configuration, and optimization challenges
• Exclusively for Snow Atlas customers — hosted live on Microsoft Teams

Why attend

• Faster time to value from the features you're already paying for
• Direct access to product and services experts in a live, interactive format
• Practical, repeatable best practices you can apply immediately
•  A touchpoint with the Snow Atlas team

Look forward to having you join the conversation.

Thanks,

The Flexera Snow Atlas team

Beyond ServiceNow: How to govern your entire technology stack in the age of AI

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Most teams can answer, “What technology do we have?”

The harder question is: “Who owns the decision when cost, risk, usage, and value all point in different directions?”

As AI, SaaS, cloud, software, and hardware decisions spread across more teams, governance becomes less about having more data and more about creating shared accountability. Join Clayton Starko and James Dalley on October 6 for a practical discussion on how to connect visibility, ownership, decision rights, and action across the full technology stack.

Here’s a question for you: Where does governance get stuck most often in your organization - ownership, decision-making, accountability, or disconnected data? 

Save your spot here