FlexNet Manager Platform / Suite – SKU, PURL & Bundle updates (Release #539)

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The SKU, Product Use Rights Libraries (PURL) and Bundles libraries, used by FlexNet Manager Suite have been updated. For on premise customers the SKU/PURL/Bundles libraries have been published and are now available.

Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by the Recognition Data Import task and was available on Monday, July 1^st 2024 in your time zone.

What's new in this release?

• 1,525 new SKUs have been added to the SKU library. The following table provides an overview of the number of SKUs with respect to publisher: 

Manufacturer	# of New SKUs
ACD Systems International	277
ESRI	187
MAGIX	102
Corel	100
Others	859
Total	1525

• More than 400 SKUs are mapped to their respective applications.
• SKUs missing PURL templates and existing mapping were refreshed which covered more than 9,000 SKUs. Details on number of SKUs covered across each publisher: 

Publishers	# of SKUs mapped in this release
Adobe	2073
Microsoft	197
VMware	316
Veritas	3051
Others	3431
TOTAL	9068

• 85 new custom FLX SKUs – 16 Adobe, 2 Microsoft and 49 SAP SKUs have been created and released to supplement FSM workflow for the respective products and cater to customer requests. SKUs details are available in attached spreadsheet 'CustomFlexeraSKUsForJune2024.xlsx'.
• ‘Oracle E-Business Suite’ bundle has been updated to include 42 EBS applications as per Oracle documentations and price list. The customers can utilize this bundle to get better license position according to license entitlements.
• New bundle ‘Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Planning Suite 11.1’ has been added to library.
• Updated 8 existing bundles to have their missing applications now correctly mapped according to the latest vendor literature.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Team Members

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales Enterprise Edition

Adobe Creative Cloud

HCL Technologies WebSphere Commerce Developer Enterprise 7.0

HCL Technologies WebSphere Commerce Enterprise 8.0

VMware Workstation Pro 12

IBM Workload Scheduler 9.4

Veritas InfoScale Enterprise

• Library information are as follows:
• Total number of SKUs in the library is 2,104,501 across 1,829 publishers.
• Total number of PURL templates is 5,519 across 66 publishers.
• Total number of published Bundles is 4,516 across 29 publishers.

How do I report issues with SKU/PURL/Bundles Library updates?

Should you have any issues related to SKU/PURL/Bundles processing with FlexNet Manager, please contact Flexera Support. Visit Contact-Flexera-Support for more details.

The regular schedule for SKU/PURL/Bundles updates

We expect the next update to the PURL, SKU & Bundles Library to be available on Friday, July 26^th 2024. The libraries are available as soon as published and are updated weekly via the Recognition Data Import task, or as otherwise reflected in your local configuration. Customers of FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud will have this update applied by Monday, July 29^th 2024 in your time zone.

Downloading the SKU/PURL Libraries Manually

The SKU/PURL library updates can be downloaded from the Flexera Product and Licensing Center (PLC 2.0).

For full details on how to install content library files once they have been downloaded, see the "Manual Updates of Library Data" topic in the Installing FlexNet Manager Suite On-Premises PDF applicable to your version of FlexNet Manager Suite.

To locate this PDF,  go to the Flexera Product Documentation website and select your FlexNet Manager Suite version from the VERSION drop down list. The file will now be listed and available for you to download.

Monthly updates are our minimum commitment. We may also provide additional updates from time to time based on customer demand. We will continue to send email alerts to announce each update.

Regards,
Team Content