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March 2025

Flexera One introduced the following new features and enhancements this month.

Automation​

Automation released the following enhancement in March 2025.

Credential expiration alerts now available​

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This enhancement is available with Automation.

Automation users can now be alerted on the Automation Credentials (Automation > Credentials) page when credentials are about to expire. When there are 60 days remaining until a credential expires, a label saying Expires soon will appear next to the credential name on the page. Once the expiration date has passed, the label will change to Expired.

The new Expiration Date field must be filled in to enable the feature for a credential. The field is optional and can be filled in when creating or updating a credential.

Cloud Cost Optimization​

Cloud Cost Optimization released the following feature in March 2025.

Cost Planning now available in Cloud Cost Optimization​

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This feature is available with Cloud Cost Optimization.

Flexera One has introduced the Cost Planning feature (Cloud > Cost Optimization > Cost Planning) to enhance the usability and functionality of viewing and analyzing cloud spend. Previously known as Budgets (Cloud > Cost Optimization > Budgets), this feature enabled teams to track only their actual cloud spend against a defined budget.

With Cost Panning, FinOps teams can now define plans and manage budgeting and forecasting data cohesively. Forecasting is the primary step in creating an accurate cost plan, enabling teams to estimate future cloud spending and keep their cost in line. As a result, they can manage their cloud spend more efficiently.

Additionally, FinOps teams can now adopt a decentralized approach to forecasting and budgeting cloud spend. Only teams with cost access (at the organizational or billing center level) can view and manage these plans, ensuring controlled visibility and governance.

Enhancements to existing functionality​

Cost Planning includes all the budget planning features along with the following new enhancements. This feature enables you to:

  • Create a plan using the New Plan button.

  • Use the new Billing Centers level dimensions to provide billing center users access to view segments and actual spending related only to their specific billing centers.

  • Create a budget and forecast independently.

  • Create a budget from the forecast data by using the Copy Data From Forecast button.

  • Automatically retrieve the forecast data from the AI model by using the Fill From Historical Data button or manually entering the forecast data.

  • Export the forecast data and the budget data to either CSV or Excel (XLSX).

  • View the forecast variance (percent of actual spend versus forecast values).

For more information, see Cost Planning in the Flexera One Help.

Cloud License Management​

Cloud License Management released the following feature in March 2025.

Introducing Cloud License Management in Flexera One​

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This feature is available with Cloud License Management.

Flexera One launches Cloud License Management, a powerful new capability that helps organizations optimize software spend and licensing in public cloud environments.

Key features include:

  • Comprehensive visibility into software usage and spend across AWS and Azure

  • Identification of potential savings by replacing pay-as-you-go (PAYG) instances with bring-your-own-license (BYOL) options

  • Achieved savings through the use of BYOL model

  • Integration with IT Asset Management for a holistic view of on-premises and cloud licensing

  • Support for major software manufacturers including Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, and more

  • Customizable dashboards and reports for actionable insights

  • GraphQL API for seamless data access and integration

Cloud License Management combines traditional IT Asset Management with cloud FinOps practices to give you unprecedented control over your software costs and compliance in the cloud.

For more information, see Getting Started With Cloud License Management in the Flexera One Help.

Flexera Integration app for ServiceNow​

Flexera has re-certified version 5.1.4 of the Flexera Integration app in the ServiceNow Store in March 2025.

Flexera Integration app version 5.1.4 re-certified and available in the ServiceNow Store​

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This app is available with IT Visibility.

Flexera helps you improve the value you derive from your ServiceNow investment from aggregation, normalization, and enrichment of hardware, software, SaaS, and cloud IT asset inventory data to IT service delivery. With Technopedia®—the most trusted source of IT product information in the world—Flexera enhances IT service management (ITSM), Configuration Management Systems, and Software Asset Management with a reliable foundation and accurate data.

The current version of the Flexera Integration app for ServiceNow includes fixes for some issues discovered in the prior version. For more information, see the ServiceNow Apps for Flexera Products page on docs.flexera.com.

IT Asset Management​

IT Asset Management released the following features and enhancements in March 2025.

Changes to supported operating systems and compatibility with other products​

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This enhancement is available with IT Asset Management.

The following operating system versions have been added to the list of supported operating systems on FlexNet Inventory Agent:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5

  • Oracle Linux 9.5

The following product version has been added to the compatibility list of IT Asset Management with other products:

  • Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (previously Microsoft SCCM or SMS) 2409

For the full lists, see Prerequisite Software and Compatibility with Other Products in System Requirements and Compatibility.

License Summary page compliance status logic update​

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This enhancement is available with IT Asset Management.

Prior to this update, under certain circumstances, the compliance status for the same license was displayed differently on the All Licenses page when compared to the License Summary page, even though it referred to the same license. For example, on the All Licenses page, "License A" was marked as Compliant, while the same license ("License A"), was shown as Unknown on the License Summary page. This discrepancy occurred because the License Summary page used data from the License Snapshot table, while the All Licenses page pulled data from the Software Licenses table.

In the License Snapshot table, specific rules dictate that if a license is associated with a certain type of alert, its compliance status is set to Unknown on the License Summary page. However, the Software Licenses table does not follow the same logic, and the compliance status remains Compliant unless explicitly changed.

With this update, the compliance status logic in the License Snapshot table has been aligned with the logic used in the Software Licenses table. Now, if a license is marked as Compliant on the All Licenses page, it will also be shown as Compliant on the License Summary page, regardless of any associated alerts. Alerts will no longer override the compliance status.

Additionally, the License Summary page now displays the number of alerts associated with each license. In card view, a new Alerts field has been added beneath Consumed to show the alert count. In list view, a red box displaying the number of alerts will appear next to the license name in the table.

Fix for the issue where installer evidence is not generated from a SWID tag created with the 2015 or later standard​

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This enhancement is available with IT Asset Management.

Prior to this release, IT Asset Management was unable to detect SWID tags created using the 2015 or later standard. As a result, when processing software installer evidence from an ISO 19770-2 software identification tag file based on the 2015 or later standard, IT Asset Management only generated a file evidence record, without creating a corresponding installer evidence record. Additionally, attempting to resolve a SWID tag created using the 2015 or later standard would log an error message in the SoftwareIsoTagFile table (column: ParseErrorMessage).

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A software identification tag (SWID tag) is an ISO 19770-2 compliant XML file that describes a software product.

In previous IT Asset Management versions, SWID tag information using the new schema was stored in the database for an extended period but was not properly evaluated. With this update, the system can now correctly assess the new schema. However, if no changes are made to the SWID tag in the NDI file (the MD5 value remains unchanged), no update will occur, and the evidence will remain unavailable in IT Asset Management.

From this release, two key changes will take place. First, when a new SWID tag with a different MD5 value is detected in the NDI file, the system will update and evaluate the new schema accordingly. Second, installer evidence generated from SWID tags using the 2015 or later standard will now appear in the Installer Evidence tab on the All Evidence page, which displays all installation evidence discovered across your enterprise and in the Application Recognition Library.

IT Visibility​

IT Visibility released the following features and enhancements in March 2025.

New Contextual Data capabilities available in the UI for data mashup with Devices and Software​

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This enhancement is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

Contextual Data capabilities already available via the Contextual Data Store API (CDS API) are now available in the Flexera One user interface for IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform customers. From the Contextual Data Mashup page (IT Visibility > Contextual Data Mashup), you can now upload, update, and delete contextual datasets without needing to write any code to interact with the CDS API.

IT Visibility’s Contextual Data Mashup features allow you to create unique insight reports that combine your normalized inventory data and the Technopedia catalog data already in Flexera One with your custom business context data. Once your contextual data is uploaded to the Technology Intelligence Platform, it gets integrated into the attributes available in IT Visibility Custom Reports for software or devices.

Contextual Data Mashup functionality, such as uploading, updating, and delete your contextual data, requires one of the following roles: Manage Contextual Data or Manage Organization.

For more information about Contextual Data Mashup, see Managing Contextual Data Mashup in the Flexera One help library.

AWS EC2 instance data now available in Hardware Portfolio Overview and Comprehensive Hardware Inventory Technology Intelligence Platform reports​

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This enhancement is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

With this enhancement, you can now view and analyze AWS EC2 instance data in the following reports on the Cloud Inventory page:

  • Hardware Portfolio Overview

  • Comprehensive Hardware Inventory

Using these reports, you can track cloud devices and resources across different categories, including:

  • Devices by cloud provider

  • Devices by resource region

  • Devices by resources type

  • Resources by provider

  • Resource region by provider

  • Cloud machine details by provider

These reports now provide better visibility into cloud infrastructure, facilitating informed decision-making, and strategic planning.

For more information, see the following topics in the Flexera One Help:

Email subscriptions for custom reports now available in IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform to all customers​

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This feature is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

All IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform customers now have access to the email subscriptions feature in custom reports. Previously, this feature was available only to a few customers during the beta release.

For more information, see Subscribing to a Custom Report in the Flexera One Help.

Email subscriptions for Technology Intelligence Platform reports now available in IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform​

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This feature is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

With this feature, users with the View IT Visibility role can create a private subscription to receive the Technology Intelligence Platform report via email at a set frequency.

If you have the Manage organization role, you can also create a shared subscription, enabling other users to receive the Technology Intelligence Platform report via email at a set frequency, in addition to creating your own private subscription.

As reports are delivered directly to the user’s inbox, this feature enables them to make critical business decisions about their IT environment in a well-informed and timely manner. The reports help users align their IT strategies effectively, ensuring they take timely actions to manage risks, optimize costs, enhance governance, and meet compliance needs of their hybrid IT estate. For more information, see Subscribing to a Technology Intelligence Platform Report in the Flexera One Help.

Support for file evidence from BMC Helix Discovery data source in IT Visibility with Technology Intelligence Platform​

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This feature is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

Flexera One now supports file evidence for customers using BMC Helix Discovery as an inventory data source. File evidence is a type of software inventory evidence. It indicates evidence in the form of a file that is found on a computer—it might simply be the name of the file, or the information found within the file.

With this feature, the software assets in BMC Helix Discovery can be recognized using file evidence properties such as file name, product name, product version, and so on.

The following inventory data sources now support file evidence:

  • BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM)

  • BMC Helix Discovery

  • Data Platform Extractors

  • FlexNet Inventory

  • IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

  • Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

For more details, see Inventory Data Sources Supported for IT Visibility in the Flexera One Help.

Improvements to out-of-the-box and custom reports based on customer feedback​

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This enhancement is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

Flexera has systematically analyzed and prioritized customer feedback. With this release, we are introducing key improvements identified from customer feedback to both out-of-the-box and custom reports. These updates address usability concerns, add requested features, and optimize overall performance.

Improvements with this release include the following:

  • Evidence Measures added to software reports and available for custom reporting use.

  • #File Evidence

  • #Installer Evidence

  • ARL Alignment standalone view added to Software data model for custom reporting—including fields like DataplatformId, FlexeraId, SoftwareProductId, and SoftwareReleaseId.

  • Timeseries tables are enabled for custom reporting for hardware and software:

    • Hardware:

    • Table Name - Device Lifecycle Daily

    • Measures: Folder - Device Measures, Sub folder - Time Series

    • Software:

    • Table Name - Software Lifecycle Daily

    • Measures: Folder - Software Measures, Sub Folder - Time Series

  • Predefined bookmarks are now enabled for custom use: Predefined bookmarks had been limited to Flexera’s pre-built reports. Now, you can create and access predefined bookmarks in your custom reports so that you can toggle filters, charts, or graphs, to deliver greater interactivity in those reports.

  • Is Licensable slicer is added in all software and vulnerability reports.

  • Models GA and Devices End of Sale measures are now part of the Hardware data model.

  • Last Availability fields are now renamed to End of Sale to keep the terminology consistent across all reports.

  • Inventory Normalization Insights Report (Sankey) is now updated to include OS statistics.

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For more information about measures available in reports and report types, see Working With Measures and Understanding Report Types in the Flexera One Help Library.

Installation Path attribute available in IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform​

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This enhancement is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

For software assets discovered via installer evidence, the Installation Path has been added as a new attribute in IT Visibility with Technology Intelligence Platform. With the Installation Path, customers gain new information useful for troubleshooting scenarios and identifying where software is installed when attempting to verify a software title has been fully removed from a device.

For more information, see the Technology Intelligence Platform Datasets page on developer.flexera.com.

New attributes available in IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform (promote to H3 when this is re-approved to publish)​

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This enhancement is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

In order to enhance software asset discovery and provide more actionable insights, the following new device, file system, and network interface card (NIC) attributes have been introduced into IT Visibility with Technology Intelligence Platform.

  • Device

    • UPTIME

    • LAST_UPDATE_SUCCESS

  • File System

    • FS_NAME

    • FS_TYPE

    • MOUNT_POINT

    • SIZE_KB

    • USED_KB

    • FS_PERMISSIONS

  • NIC

    • HOST_SPEED

    • HOST_DUPLEX

For more information about the datasets, see the Technology Intelligence Platform Datasets page on developer.flexera.com.

More metrics enhancements for hardware, software, and vulnerability reporting​

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This enhancement is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

With our ongoing effort to improve reporting for IT Visibility with Technology Intelligence Platform customers, Flexera has made additional enhancements based on customer feedback. In particular, a number of metrics have been added for hardware and vulnerabilities report types and several measures have been changed from being hidden by default to being available by default, in the user interface, for hardware and software report types.

New metrics for hardware report types​

The following metrics have been added to the Device Measures table for hardware reports:

  • CVEs LatestDate has been added to the Processor subfolder of the Device Measures table.

  • Total Vulnerabilities LatestDate has been added to the Processor subfolder of the Device Measures table.

New metrics for vulnerability report types​

The following metrics have been added to the Vulnerability Measures table for vulnerability reports:

  • CVEs LatestDate has been added to the Time Series subfolder of the Vulnerability Measures table.

  • Total Vulnerabilities LatestDate has been added to the Time Series subfolder of the Vulnerability Measures table.

Hidden measures made available for hardware report types​

The following measures are available by default for hardware reports in the Device Measures table:

  • Devices GA%

  • Devices EOL%

  • Devices Obsolete%

  • Devices Missing Version Information%

  • Devices Open Source Support%

  • Devices Unpublished Lifecycle%

Hidden measures made available for software report types​

The following measures are available by default for software reports in the Software Measures table:

  • Installs GA%

  • Installs EOL%

  • Installs Obsolete%

  • Installs Missing Version Information%

  • Installs Open Source Support%

  • Installs Unpublished Lifecycle%

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For more information about measures available in reports and report types, see Working With Measures and Understanding Report Types in the Flexera One Help Library.

New Vulnerability Trends page added to the Software Vulnerability Insights report​

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This enhancement is available with IT Visibility With Technology Intelligence Platform.

A new report page has been added to the Software Vulnerability Insights report: Vulnerability Trends. This report page tracks trend over the last 7 days, weekly and monthly for the vulnerabilities and CVE in your environment. With this page, customers gain timely insight to potential vulnerabilities in the software assets within their IT estate.

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For more information about the Software Vulnerability Insights report, see Software Vulnerability Insights in the Flexera One Help Library.