Manage hybrid IT spend and risk: ITAM, SaaS, FinOps and more | Flexera

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The visibility, control, and governance you need to optimize spend, reduce risk, and drive business results. Traditional silos between IT management, SaaS management and Financial Operations are disappearing. AI is an accelerant. Every team needs the same trusted view to manage it.

Flexera One creates a shared knowledge layer

It centralizes all technology and business data in one clean, standardized view and then enriches it with your business context including spend, contracts, adoption and risk.

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The Flexera One platform provides solutions for every major technology management discipline including:
AI, FinOps, SaaS and IT Asset Management.

Flexera One AI Cost Management

Full visibility of the AI technology stack

AI is the fastest-growing spend line item in your tech budget, and the hardest to see. Flexera One gives you a complete view of every model, agent, token, and API call across your business, with the cost and usage data to back it up. Know what your AI is doing, what it's costing and where to invest next.

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Autonomous cloud cost optimization

Cloud spend moves faster than any team can manually manage. Flexera One automates the work, surfacing waste, flagging anomalies, and recommending optimizations across every cloud provider. Ask your cloud anything and get answers in seconds, not spreadsheets, so your FinOps team can focus on strategy instead of cost reports.

Flexera One SaaS Management

See every SaaS app, seat and dollar spent

Most enterprises pay for two to three times more SaaS than they use. Flexera One finds every app, including the ones no one told IT about, and shows you exactly who’s using what. Reclaim unused seats, renegotiate with evidence, and shut down shadow SaaS before the next renewal cycle.

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Compliance and audits answered with a simple AI chat

Audits, renewals, and license decisions used to take weeks. Now they take a question. With a natural language interface, Flexera One lets you ask your IT estate anything and get instant answers backed by clean, normalized data. Withstand every audit, gain leverage at every negotiation, and turn ITAM from a back-office function into a strategic advantage.

Flexera Knowledge Layer: Contextual, canonical, complete.

Flexera grounds our knowledge layer in a real-time view of your technology assets and data and enriches that view with Flexera’s our proprietary data-catalog, Technopedia.

From AI agents and models to SaaS, cloud, software, and hardware, this provides a foundation of trusted data that every team, every decision and every Flexera module is built on.

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Real success stories solving real-world problems

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Carlsberg increased efficiency and saved $400,000 within the first year.

Flexera gives me the necessary data quality to provide the financial transparency and overview required in a global software lifecycle management department.

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Melanie Nash Senior Software Contract Manager, Carlsberg

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Flexera One helps Northern Trust advance strategic business goals.

With business adapters sharing data between the tools that drive the engine of these four disciplines, each  set of stakeholders is assured the data they’re using is accurate and consistent across business units.

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Jeffrey West Senior Vice President, Technology Business Management, Northern Trust

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Imperial War Museums breaks down organizational silos through data transparency.

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It’s helped us to work with internal teams inside IT, but also the business as a whole to understand our true footprint of usage of technology, because it’s no longer software, it’s no longer SaaS... It’s actually technology asset management as a whole. And that’s where technology intelligence needs to come in and get appropriate insights out of it.

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Cameron Ritchie Founding Director of Radzik Services, technology consultant to Imperial War Museums

Bayer AG teams with Flexera to turn cloud complexity into cost savings.

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One of the first things we realized was how effectively we were able to work with Flexera and its teams. This active collaboration and communication really fosters a solid and production partnership, which helped us to achieve our goals and as a result really significantly helped us to optimize our cloud spend and realize savings.

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Sasha Ludwig, Bayer AG

Sasha Ludwig Cloud Financial Operations Engineer, Bayer AG

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Managing your sprawling hybrid IT portfolio creates a unique challenge when overseeing the associated spend. We help you gain visibility and use actionable insights to improve your ROI by maximizing usage of existing resources across your cloud, SaaS, containers, desktop and data center.  

When you’re unable to identify unknown, vulnerable, unused or obsolete software and hardware, you incur tech debt and create security or compliance risks—and that can cause major issues for your organization. With Flexera, you can proactively manage software vulnerability and obsolescence risk in your IT environment, prioritize remediation of end-of-life and vulnerable technology, and enable business transformation and modernization.

You can’t manage what you can’t see—and shadow IT causes wasted time, inconsistent business approaches, wasted investments, inefficiencies, and a higher incidence of compliance and security risk. With Flexera, shine a light on shadow IT activity across software, SaaS (including generative AI applications), cloud, containers and more. Reduce the operational expense of your tech investments, select and fund revenue-increasing initiatives and increase the success rate of initiatives like cloud migration, data center consolidation and IT transformation. 

If you’re not proactively calculating your license positions and IT spend, your organization is at risk for unbudgeted true-up expenses and audits. Plus, with the explosion of cloud, you may struggle with runaway costs and out-of-balance spending. Flexera offers a unique approach to your organization’s hybrid ITAM and FinOps journey that enables IT, operations, procurement, cloud centers of excellence, enterprise architects and FinOps teams to work collaboratively with business units and resource owners to gain visibility and identify areas of savings opportunities. 

Wasted spend across desktop, data center, SaaS and IaaS/PaaS remains high among enterprises, around an average 20-30%*. Flexera helps you see the technology you’re using, so you can eliminate unused subscriptions and rationalize applications and vendors based on trusted, actionable data. With Flexera, you get the insights you need to purchase only the technology necessary.  

*Source: Flexera 2025 State of ITAM Report  

Without proper governance of your cloud instances, you run the risk of compliance issues and could end up with surprising or costly bills. With Flexera, you get a standard approach to managing, optimizing and scaling your cloud environment responsibly, including spend approvals and automated governance. Flexera is also a member of the FinOps Foundation and its technology is enabled to deliver capabilities to keep you at the forefront of cloud financial management best practices. 

Getting accurate information on your IT environment has proven to be difficult with your current CMDB data. With Flexera, you can clean, normalize, standardize and enrich your data automatically. Using curated content from Technopedia, the world’s largest and most comprehensive technology data reference catalog, enhance your CMDB data and discover complete, accurate details on your technology environment. 

You need to regularly report on environmental, social and corporate governance initiatives, but you lack the visibility and understanding of how your IT environment is driving sustainability initiatives. Flexera provides critical insights on carbon emissions, hardware power ratings, energy consumption and asset lifecycles including end of life or support data so you can accurately report on your IT sustainability position.