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vwonais · ‎Apr 07, 2020

Check out our latest Data Platform release. What’s included? Enhanced InfoSec Content: Gain improved reliability with risk intelligence from the renowned Secunia Research team: Our previous offering for InfoSec included data sourced from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). If you currently subscribe to the InfoSec content pack, vulnerability data will now be enhanced with Secunia Research advisories, providing additional critical details required for making appropriate business decisions Threat intelligence: Understand the level of certainty about a vulnerability actually being exploited with scoring from Flexera A new report to visualize Secunia advisories, their threat intelligence and the impact vulnerabilities have on your organization Performance Improvements: Decrease in normalization processing time (-30%) For more information on these updates, please see our If you are having trouble viewing the video, please click here.

vwonais · ‎Dec 03, 2019

Hi @shill2 - Great question. Yes, the recording will be posted on this page for on-demand viewing and if you register by clicking on the link in the post above, we will also send you a copy of the recording.

vwonais · ‎Nov 25, 2019

Learn about how you better identify applications that are recognized in your environment. More specifically how FNMS uses its rich content library to link evidence of an application to your inventory records. If you are having trouble viewing the video, please click here.

vwonais · ‎Nov 08, 2019

Hi Everyone, Thanks for taking the time for joining us for this FNMS R2 release webinar. If you submitted a question during this webinar that we were not able to get to, you can find the answers below. When FNMS will be available? The FNMS 2019 R2 on-premises release will be available for download next week. November 12 is the planned date. Will the current Citrix usage and application issue be fixed in the next release? We have been reviewing incoming issues around Citrix. While there are are some changes that we are making, we have noticed that some of the issues are related to configuration - this is why we have released KB articles. If there are specific issues that you are concerned about, please continue to work with support. When do you plan to provide Oracle piece just discussed for on-prem, this new release? It will not be available in 2019 R2. Engineering is investigating approaches but I cannot yet confirm whether it will be part of the 2020 R1 release, although this is highly desirable. Is targeting supported for older versions (pre FNMS 2019 R2) of the Flexera agent, too? Yes, You can target older agent versions. Targetting agent upgrade will only be available once the agent at 2019 R2 version, correct? We will not be able to leverage targeted upgrades of older versions of agent in our environment e.g. 2018 R1? Yes, you can target upgrades of older agents, but you will need 2019 R2 infrastructure and beacons. On JAVA Inventory. What about scenarios where the FNMS Agent is not the default inventory source? Is this feature update therefore limited? Collecting Java inventory requires deep level introspection which many 3rd party tools do not support. Flexera recommends using FlexNet Agent in order to get complete inventory detail. On Windows, it is possible that 3rd party inventory data will provide sufficient detail for our recognition engine (e.g. installer evidence). Regarding "Ability to identify commercial version of Oracle Java": is this only available in the release 2019 R2 or is this part of an ARL-update? There are 2 parts to the update. Agent update (available since mid-2019 and ARL updates, ongoing). You do not require 2019 R2 infrastructure. Does this option support Red Hat OpenStack? I believe this is a question regarding KVM - the answer is Yes. R2 to ensure FNMS LMS reports will be accepted by Oracle? The latest update is available as part of the 2019 R2 release. Using a previous version will not provide all of the details and provide data using the updated requirements, but I would recommend discussing it with your Oracle representatives. Can you elaborate on the Product Improvement of Inventory agent unique identifier? This enhancement allows us to better match inventory records (rather than trying to use computer and domain name). Further description is available in Features by release https://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/fnms/EN/features/index.html#FeatureList/2019R1-2/RN_chg_AgentUniqueID.html Can we upgrade directly from FNMS 2018 r1 directly to 2019 r2? Yes. We recommend reviewing documentation, backing up your environment before performing the upgrade. We have customers performing this operation themselves, engaging partners or our Services. Are there any changes/new features for Flexera Analytics? We are working to revamp our Analytics capabilities with a goal to deliver a complete solution by mid-2020. We are looking for customer stakeholders and if you are interested, please contact your CSM or account representative. Will it be possible to get the catalog content from FNMS? In the long term, we plan to merge the content of FNMS and Data Platform, so there will be one single source of data. When is App Broker available for other than SCCM? like BigFix? We plan to deliver the extensible framework for App Broker, using which it will be possible to integrate with other deployment technologies as long as they expose the right APIs. Depending on the priority, we will make the integration out of the box but you can get it sooner with the help of our partners, consultants or services team using the extensible framework. Will App Broker cloud eventually have the capability to integrate with on-prem FNMS? Yes, we plan to support integrating with on-prem FNMS so that it facilitates our on-prem customers to migrate to App Broker cloud. This will be high on our list. Is that Technopedia integration also coming into App Portal on-premise? Technopedia is a cloud only product, so it will not be possible to integrate with on-prem App Portal. As it is, I've been working directly with Engineering to get the issues fixed, the current issue being that Citrix evidence is considered as Orphaned, and is getting deleted, which makes the Xen App adapter not usable in its current state. This is something that we are working on. Please continue to engage with Support. Is there a plan to inventory Linux container applications? Yes, we are working on support for Containers, including Discovery and Inventory of software in containers. We are targeting 1H 2020 for the delivery of the solution. Is it a possibility to have an SQL statement that performs this Oracle options evidence analysis on on-prem since it is not included in 2019r2 We are working to deliver Oracle DB Transparency capability for our on-premises solution in 2020. Any changes on the reporting side - for BI/Analytics? We are working to revamp our Analytics capabilities with a goal to deliver a complete solution by mid-2020. We are looking for customer stakeholders and if you are interested, please contact your CSM or account representative. Does App Broker Cloud, only apply to ServiceNow customers, or will it be available to other customers as well? We plan to deliver the extensible framework for App Broker, using which it will be possible to integrate with any ITSM application as long as they expose the right APIs. Depending on the priority, we will make the integration out of the box but you can get it sooner with the help of our partners, consultants or services team using the extensible framework. Even if on 2018 R2, OK to use newer agents? Especially for Mac 64 bit and Cloud agents. Others too? Yes, you can use newer agents with older FNMS infrastructure. Is Red Hat Openstack a supported KVM Linux adapter? Yes. What about Container Management from AWS or Azure? Containers will be supported whether hosted on-premise, private cloud or a public cloud like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc. Is there any plan to integrate SaaS Manager into FNMS? Yes, we plan to integrate FNMS and SaaS manager to bring the data into FNMS so you can take advantage of FNMS's license management capabilities for SaaS applications and get a single pane of visibility for all software, on-prem or SaaS. Are we planning to integrate Intune for SW inventory or how we can manage Intune managed device inventory in FNMS? Yes, we are looking to support InTune integration in the future. How soon will Contract Management Portal be integrated into FNMS? We are working to modernize our contract management capabilities. The initial focus is on our FNMS Cloud implementation. Have a wonderful weekend! CC. @dgalecki @pratulpatel1

vwonais · ‎Oct 31, 2019

Hi @snorroy - great question. Yes, if you register for the webinar through the link above, we will go ahead and send you a copy of the recording after the session concludes.

vwonais · ‎Oct 31, 2019

Flexera provides a wide variety of policies that you can apply on Day 1 without much investment. All our policies are open source and can be found in our public git repo . In this 30 minute webinar, we will review some of the top cost optimization policies and give you a preview into how we are integrating the Flexera ecosystem, such as Cloud Migration, SaaS and License Mgmt with policies. If you are having trouble viewing the video, please click here.

vwonais · ‎Oct 28, 2019

The next edition of FlexNet Manager Suite, release 2019 R2, will be published in early November 2019. To learn more about what will be included in this release, view the video below. If you are having trouble viewing the video, please click here. Feature Highlights New Features New insights into license reconciliation Support for inventory of Linux KVM virtualization Raw file path exposed for each piece of file evidence Ability to restrict FlexNet inventory agent communication to selected inventory beacons Evidence visibility to enable the resolution of application recognition issues Targeted FlexNet inventory agent upgrades Support for macOS 64-bit only versions, including 10.15 Changes from Previous Releases Exemption reasons explained PVU peaks identified by end dates FlexNet inventory agent unique identifier For full details of the new and changed features in this release, you can refer to the new Features by Release document. It is worth knowing that you no longer have the traditional Release Notes document. Instead, we are transitioning the on-premises edition to the same model we have been using for FlexNet Manager Suite cloud with separate documents for: New and changed Features System Requirements Resolved Issues These documents will all be progressively released on HelpNet.

vwonais · ‎Oct 22, 2019

In our community, you can find release notes for many of our product offerings. These notes are designed to provide detailed information regarding what updates and changes will be happening to our products. To learn how you can access this information and subscribe to receive an update every time a new release is added, follow the detailed instructions that are listed below. Go to https://community.flexera.com/t5/Flexera-Community/ct-p/Flexera_Community Sign in to your community account by selecting the Sign in option that is located in the upper right-hand corner Select your product from the list Select the section labeled, "Product Name" Release Blog If you would like to subscribe to receive updates when a new post is released click Subscribe that is located in the upper right-hand corner and select Subscribe from the dropdown menu If a product does not have release notes added to the community, you will not see the "Product Name" Release Notes option that is pictured in step Four. It is important to highlight that although all of our product offerings may not have release notes at this time, it does not indicate that they won't be added to the community at a future date. Related Articles Community Getting Started Guide How to Subscribe for Notifications and Adjust Notification Frequency Subscribe to a Label

vwonais · ‎Oct 18, 2019

Large enterprise organizations, in virtually every industry and every region around the world, are investing heavily in technology to drive growth and increase competitiveness. The Flexera 2020 State of Tech Spend Survey provides granular data and insights into how companies are spending on technology, the major initiatives they are investing in, how they are tracking and managing IT spend and the challenges they face in optimizing spend. There are many technology budget and spend reports that provide a high-level perspective. But they don’t track shifts in IT spend to technologies driving business transformation. Our survey-based report delivers a unique and substantive view into changes around such topics as shifting software vendor spend, the ways organizations are trying to optimize their spend and the relevance of data centers. This first annual Flexera report documents these trends, providing benchmarks and insights that help IT professionals make better decisions. To find out more and view this report, click here. On November 13th and 14th we will be hosting webinars that walk through the findings in this report in further detail. To register for these webinars, click here.

vwonais · ‎Oct 18, 2019

There are many technology budget and spend reports that provide a high-level perspective. But they don’t track shifts in enterprise IT spend to technologies driving business transformation. This first annual Flexera State of Tech Spend report documents these trends, providing benchmarks and insights that help IT professionals make better decisions. In this webinar, we will delve into changes, from the perspective of CIOs and senior IT leaders, around such topics as shifting software vendor spend, the ways organizations are trying to optimize their cloud spend and the relevance of data centers. Click here to register

vwonais · ‎Oct 18, 2019

You've probably been asked to write a review for many apps and products you've used. It can be overwhelming and sometimes irritating, especially when you're trying to get a specific task done. We understand the urge to bypass the review process by just hitting that "No Thanks" option. But we also know the importance reviews can play for someone who is looking for the best solution that works for them and their company. Like many software companies, we'd like to claim our products are always perfect and the term "bug" isn't in our language. (After all, we are consistently ranked high in the Gartner Magic Quadrants ). But we live in the real world where things are constantly changing. And although we have some of the brightest software engineers across to globe, we know there's always room for improvement. Instead of tooting our own horn, we want others to hear the good, the bad and, quite honestly, the ugly of what you think of our products. Your opinion matters to our teams, and we want that to shine through to help others make a decision. Reviewing our products is easy. Gartner Peer Reviews All responses are published anonymously by Gartner (no name or company name) on their Peer Insights website within a couple of weeks after submissio n . If you are not familiar with Peer Insights you can see it here . G o to https://www.gartner.com/reviews/home to begin your peer submission. G2 Reviews All you need to do is select your product from the list below, log into your LinkedIn account and enter your review. It only takes about five minutes! AdminStudio App Broker App Portal Cloud Management Platform Data Platform FlexNet Manager Optima SaaS Manager Software Vulnerability Manager

vwonais · ‎Aug 16, 2019

Hi Maggie, great question. You can now access this recording directly on this page. If you need anything else, let me know!

vwonais · ‎Aug 14, 2019

Recently we have published our new SVM practice guide. Our practice guides are designed to walk through how you can get the most out of your products. To grasp a better understanding of how you can utilize SVM to it's fullest potential, view our on-demand recording to learn more from our experts, and practice guide author, Rosen Danailov, Senior Technical Support Engineer. To access our SVM practice guide, click here. If you are having trouble viewing the video, please click here.

vwonais · ‎Jul 31, 2019

Recently we have published our new SVM practice guide. Our practice guides are designed to walk through how you can get the most out of your products. To grasp a better understanding of how you can utilize SVM to it's fullest potential, view our on-demand recording to learn more from our experts, and practice guide author, Rosen Danailov, Senior Technical Support Engineer. To access our SVM practice guide, click here. If you are having trouble viewing the video, please click here.

vwonais · ‎May 29, 2019

Are you curious about the changes and updates that are happening on our Support Team? If you answered yes, watch this learning lab to learn how Kimberly May, Vice President of Support is enhancing the way that we provide support. In this lab, Kimberly shares with us her current goals, the progress she has made towards achieving those goals, and she provides us with insight regarding the future of support. If you're curious about the support that our team has to offer and how their processes will be changing, this is a lab that you won't want to miss. If you are having trouble viewing the video, please click here.

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