WHAT’S NEW IN SOFTWARE LICENSE OPTIMIZATIONRELEASE WEBINAR 2020 R1

FlexNet Manager Suite

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About Flexera

IT technology intelligence and spend optimization from desktop,

datacenter to cloud

Top 200 software company

World’s most trusted SAM vendor (Oracle, IBM and Microsoft)

Leader in each market served – ITAM/SAM, CMP, Technology Intelligence

and Security (2018 HCMP/CCO Wave, 2019 SAM MQ, 2019 & 2020 CMP

MQ)

Over 5000 customers globally

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Matt Richardson

Product Manager

Daniel GaleckiDirector of Product Management

Agenda

Release highlights

Release details

Release Dates

Q&A

TRACK LICENSE COMPLIANCE

Protect your investment in software entitlements.

OPTIMIZE LICENSE CONSUMPTIONMaximize utilization of existing entitlements

MANAGE HARDWARETrack hardware throughout asset lifecycle

Software and hardware asset managementDelivered by FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud On-prem

FNMS 2020 R1: List of Features, Improvements

FeaturesSupport for Containers

SAP Digital Access

SaaS Manager Integration

Enhanced Analytics

Personalizable Management Dashboard

Oracle Transparency (on-prem)

Cloud REST APIs

Publisher ImprovementsIBM PVU enhancementsOracle VirtualBox

Adapters• ServiceNow integration

Certified on Orlando

• Tanium Asset API-based integration

ProductImprovements• Identify devices linked to

evidence

• System task monitoring

• SAML integration security enhancement

Documentation, Language Selection• Features grouped by month

of release

• Language selection in HelpNet

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTSFlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R1

Software and hardware asset managementDelivered by FlexNet Manager Suite

Identify software deployed via Containers to reduce compliance risk

Define strategy for SAP Business Suite licensing by comparing license consumption of Indirect and Digital Access license models

View on premises and SaaS entitlements in a single interface

Understand your environment and communicate value of FlexNet Manager Suite with improved out-of-the-box Flexera Analytics

Extract data from FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud with REST APIs

Reduce compliance risk by understanding Oracle Database license consumption

Cloud On-prem

Goal

• Provide customers complete view of software deployed in their environment

Details

• Agent based discovery of Docker containers on Linux

• Setting to enable/disable Container inventory

• ‘All Containers’ report showing device inventory and associated containers

• Application view showing containerized applications

ContainersCloud On-prem

Initial phase Future phasesNow

Goal

• Ability to measure cost of Digital Access license model and compare against existing Indirect license model

Details

• Import digital access data from SAP ECC as well as S/4HANA system

• Calculate digital access cost and visualize at landscape, system, client ID and document type level

• Compare cost of Indirect Access and Digital Access licenses

• Maintain your SAP document license price table

SAP Digital AccessCloud On-prem

Goal

• Provide a unified view of on premises and SaaS license consumption

Details

• Import licenses, purchase entitlements, applications, users and allocated/ used entitlements by users into FNMS

• Provide link to SaaS Manager for each imported SaaS license

• Provide access to SaaS Manager from FlexNet Manager Suite (only visible when integration is enabled)

SaaS Manager integrationCloud On-prem

Goal

• Provide rich out of the box data visualization experience

Details

• Expanded library of out of the box visualizations• Available as a separate download for On-premises

customers

• Create custom Analytics dashboards to communicate value within your organization

Enhanced AnalyticsCloud On-prem

Initial phase Future phasesNow

Goal

• Provide configurable Management Dashboard to allow users to focus on job relevant insights

Details

• Create personal dashboards

• Define sharable templates

Personalized Management Dashboard

From

pre-defined

dashboard

To“My dashboard”

Cloud On-prem

Initial phase Future phasesNow

Goal

• Provide external access to FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud data

Details

• Create actions with Policy Manager integrations

• Feed FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud data into 3rd

party systems

• Include asset information in enterprise reporting

REST-based APIsCloud

{REST}

Initial phase Future phasesNow

Goal

• Provide insights into Oracle Database Option and Management Pack license consumption

Details

• Display details of Oracle Database Options and Management Packs usage

• Show source of evidence of usage

❖ Already available in Cloud version

Oracle Database Transparency (On-Premises)On-prem

ADDITIONAL DETAILSFlexNet Manager Suite 2020 R1

FNMS 2020 R1: List of Features, Improvements

FeaturesSupport for Containers

SAP Digital Access

SaaS Manager Integration

Enhanced Analytics

Personalizable Management Dashboard

Oracle Transparency (on-prem)

Cloud REST APIs

Publisher ImprovementsIBM PVU enhancementsOracle VirtualBox

Adapters• ServiceNow integration

Certified on Orlando

• Tanium Asset API-based integration

ProductImprovements• Identify devices linked to

evidence

• System task monitoring

• SAML integration security enhancement

Documentation, Language Selection• Features grouped by month

of release

• Language selection

Goal

• Give customers more control over frequency and target selection for PVU virtualization scans

Details

• User-configurable duration for IBM PVU scanning

• Users can create or use pre-configured targets for 'Known vCenter or OVM Manager servers’

• Disabled discovery of vCenter and OVM Manager

IBM PVU Frequent Virtualization InventoryCloud On-prem

Goal

• Provide report output matching inventory results for virtual devices

Details

• Change to use the exact output from the license reconcile

• Split how grid works on PVU licenses vs standard licenses

PVU Consumption Grid ImprovementCloud On-prem

Goal

• Collect inventory of VirtualBox Extension Packs and calculate license consumption

Details

• Extended agent to collect VirtualBox Extension Pack inventory (as installer evidence)

• Agent setting to enable/disable ‘Perform VirtualBox Inventory’

Oracle VirtualBox Extension PackCloud On-prem

Goal

• Provide support for latest releases of ServiceNow and Tanium Asset

Details

• New Flexera ServiceNow Orlando certified integration• ServiceNow integration is available from ServiceNow store

• Tanium Asset integration using Tanium APIs to ensure completeness of results

Integration improvementsCloud On-prem

Goal

• To make it easier for users to look at all devices relating to installer and file evidence to improve troubleshooting

Details

• New ‘Devices’ tab in the ‘Installer Evidence’ properties with device name, domain name, inventory device type and inventory date

Identify devices linked to evidenceCloud On-prem

Goal

• Provide enhanced visibility to customers when overnight tasks have failed

Details

• Replace system task traffic light in header with text

• Configuration of warnings has not changed

System Task MonitoringCloud On-prem

Goal

• To safely keep FlexNet Manager Suite user session alive and avoid security risk for when SAML does not provide session time out

Details

• FlexNet Manager will fall back to internal session time out (configurable option for each tenant)

• Session time out provided by SAML will take precedence over session time out configured within FlexNet Manager Suite

SAML Integration Improvement (Security)Cloud On-prem

Feature Documentation grouped by Month of Release

• Cloud only

• Supports continuous release strategy

• Focuses on When, not How

Language selection

• Language Selection available in Flexera Documentation

Documentation, Language Selection

Release Dates

FlexNet Manager Suite

• EU Cloud: 9th June, 2020

• NAM Cloud: 12th June, 2020

• On-Premises: 25th June, 2020

Product Improv.

Cloud On-prem

More information

• FlexNet Manager Suite Community: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager/ct-p/FlexNetManagerSuite

• Release blog: https://community.flexera.com/t5/FlexNet-Manager-Release-Blog/Announcing-FlexNet-Manager-2020-R1-release/ba-p/148638/jump-to/first-unread-message

• Release feature blogs and videos

• Documentation updates

Cloud On-prem

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