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Policy Template Release Notes for Oct 2021

New Policy Templates Google Recommendations - Exposes a number of recommendations to identify potential saving opportunities for Google Cloud Changes to Existing Policy Templates AWS Reserved Instance...

New Look for SaaS Dashboard

From the Dashboards menu, click SaaS to open the SaaS Dashboard. The SaaS Dashboard enables you to see at a glance how much you are spending on Software as a Service (SaaS). The SaaS Dashboard also pr...

New ServiceNow Scoped App v5.0.6 is now Available in ServiceNow Store

We're happy to announce that the latest version of ServiceNow Scoped App integration (v5.0.6) has passed certification and is now available in the ServiceNow Store. Quick facts App version: 5.0.6Relea...

Coming soon - Navigation update for Cloud Cost Billing Configuration and Custom Tag settings.

We are pleased to announce the Cloud Cost Billing Configuration and Custom Tags pages have each been given their own individual pages under the Administration > Cloud Settings. Administration > Cloud ...

Flexera knows Kubernetes are in the IT estate. Do you?

Containers pose a major challenge for IT Organizations face challenges like never before with so many employees working remotely. So IT needs to keep up with demand for new devices, software and mor...

“Other Evidence” in Inventory Normalization Statistics

We released Inventory Normalization Statistics in IT Visibility last month (August 2021, see this blog post). On the software side, the statistics were available for Installer evidence only. There wer...

Office 365 and Office 365 Client Credentials Blocked Users

Office 365 and Office 365 Client Credentials Blocked Users SaaS Management’s Office 365 and Office 365 Client Credentials integrations reflect “Blocked” users in Microsoft, along with the previously s...

Logout Redirect URL for Identity Providers

Logout Redirect URL for Identity Providers When you log in to Flexera One through your organization's identity provider, you will be directed to a logout redirect URL when your session ends. A Flexera...

AppExchange (Salesforce) Direct Integration with SaaS Management

AppExchange (Salesforce) Direct Integration with SaaS Management AppExchange (Salesforce) is an online marketplace where Salesforce customers can add third-party SaaS applications to their Salesforce ...

Flexera One ITAM update for September 2021

We are pleased to inform you that the September 2021 update (release number 2021 R1.1) of Flexera One ITAM is deployed to UAT environments on September 9th. We are planning to upgrade the production e...

Flexera One Login Page UI Refresh

Flexera One Login Page UI Refresh We’ve given the Flexera One login interface a refresh, and we think you’ll like it. The Flexera One Login Page UI Refresh will be available to all customers in early...

Flexera One Video: Management of All of Your Salesforce Org’s Licenses and Usage

The latest release of Flexera One's SaaS Management capability now provides the ability to see all Salesforce licenses for all orgs rolled up into one view. The new Salesforce Overview enables you to ...

Inventory Normalization Statistics

Viewing Inventory Normalization Statistics Inventory Normalization Statistics provide insights as to how hardware and software inventory has been normalized. These statistics can be found in Flexera O...

Flexera One Supported Browsers

Flexera One now supports two additional browsers including: Apple SafariMicrosoft Edge In addition, the following browsers are now supported with the latest released versions: Apple SafariGoogle Chrom...

Auto-Populated Salesforce License Information

The Flexera One integration with Salesforce offers a License Information integration task that automatically retrieves the Salesforce license name and total allowed number of licenses. This retrieved ...

Salesforce Overview Tab

When your organization has multiple Salesforce instances integrated with Flexera One, a grouping row appears with all Salesforce data aggregated in the Managed SaaS Applications screen. After clicking...

Vendor Workspace, Don’t Leave Home Without It

So, you’re in negotiations with Microsoft for a renewal. You have investments across on-premises applications, Microsoft O365, and Azure. How do you leverage your current customer acumen in tandem wit...

Devices ignored in IT Asset Management/FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud now filtered from IT Visibility inventory data

IT Asset Management allows you to ignore inventory records if these should not be included in your inventory result set – for example, if the inventory record is known to be inaccurate but it’s not f...

IT Asset Management/FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud organization data now included in IT Visibility data exports

IT Asset Management allows you to associate inventory records with organizational groups. This allows hardware and software to be related to your organizational structure in terms of locations, corpo...

New Look for a SaaS Application’s Overview Tab

The Overview Tab in Flexera One is a dashboard that displays a SaaS application’s spend, license count, and user activity. This tab was redesigned to present data in a more consistent and consumable w...

Microsoft Vendor Workspace

The Microsoft Vendor Workspace provides an overall view of the spend for Microsoft licenses (on-premise and SaaS), hardware, and Azure cloud. This workspace also displays your organization’s Microsoft...

Better IT visibility for better threat defense

It’s no secret that information technology is in rapid flux. Digital transformation and the demands of a post-COVID world are causing software asset management (SAM) and configuration management datab...

New ServiceNow Scoped App Integration v5.0.5 is Available in ServiceNow Store

We're happy to announce that the latest version of ServiceNow Scoped App integration (v5.0.5) has passed certification and is now available in the ServiceNow Store. This release includes some notable ...

Flexera One Transition - End User Communications

Today, the Flexera One Transition team will be sending out communications to all end users of FNMS Cloud. Customers that have notified Flexera of their preference to manage the initial communication ...

Flexera introduces IBM Cloud Paks sub-capacity in Kubernetes orchestration

You’re probably aware of IBM Cloud Paks. They’re integrated software solutions built on the Red Hat open hybrid cloud platform. These make it possible to deploy anywhere in the Kubernetes container en...

Flexera One Policies Has Been Renamed "Automation"

In Flexera One's left-hand navigation and product documentation, the Flexera One application "Policies" has been renamed "Automation". The Policies Dashboard in Flexera One was also renamed as the Aut...

Changes in Virtual Machine Normalization

Change Title: Changes in Virtual Machine Normalization Type: Class 2 Change Notification What: Virtual machines come into normalization via hardware pipeline (along with, e.g., computers). Currently, ...

SaaS Application Integration Updates - May 2021

The SaaS Management team has reviewed and updated the SaaS application integration instructions for the following topics: Information StoredMinimum Permissions RequiredAuthentication MethodCredentials...

SaaS Management: Import Jobs API Supports License Differentiation

The Application Roster is one of the supported tasks for the Import Jobs API. The Application Roster now includes the stock-keeping unit (SKU) field, which is an array of SKUs (or Licenses) assigned t...

SaaS Management: SaaS Application Integration Updates