Flexera is a global enterprise software company that helps organisations manage and optimise their technology spend and risk. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, it traces its origins to the late 1980s, and its history includes the InstallShield software installation product. The company operated under Macrovision before becoming an independent private business in 2008. It adopted the Flexera name in 2009. Since then it has expanded through a series of acquisitions, including ManageSoft, Secunia, BDNA, RightScale, RISC Networks and Snow Software, and today it serves customers worldwide.
Flexera's offering is delivered primarily as software and software-as-a-service. Its flagship platform, Flexera One, brings together visibility and control of hardware, software, SaaS and cloud assets in a single solution. The platform includes IT Visibility, IT Asset Management, Cloud Cost Optimisation and SaaS Management capabilities, supported by Technopedia, a reference library covering more than five million technology products from over 100,000 vendors. Flexera's software supplier division, Revenera, offers separate products for software and IoT vendors, including InstallShield, InstallAnywhere and the FlexNet suite.
Flexera specialises in IT asset management, FinOps and cloud cost optimisation, and SaaS management across hybrid IT environments. Its platform is designed to bridge the traditional divide between ITAM and FinOps, giving organisations a unified view of their technology estate. This helps them control costs, maintain licence compliance, manage vendor audits and negotiations, and reduce risk. The company also has a long-standing focus on vulnerability intelligence, which it built on its acquisition of Secunia.
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