Flexera

The initial wave of software-as-a-service (SaaS) was characterized by “one-size-fits-all” pricing. This was largely because SaaS vendors were out to pioneer a new market—and simplicity was a cornerstone of their pitch to early adopters. The offer of extremely simple and economical pricing helped these vendors overcome whatever resistance they may have encountered to a new

The ROI and benefits of buying a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Licensing and Entitlement Management System vs. building one in-house will vary from customer to customer, based upon business needs and market conditions. Historically, many of our hundreds of customers attempted to build their own systems, when at some point they realized that it was a

Machine virtualization has swept through enterprises, big and small – creating significant issues for both software producers and enterprise customers – and a wide “vendor-customer gap” in customer desires and application vendors’ practices. Specifically, the way that enterprise IT organizations install, provisions administer and use application software is likely decoupled from how application vendors build,

Why you should care about software updates? While one might expect that only software vendors would care about software updates, it turns out that many high-tech manufacturers and enterprises are also in the software business today. In fact, many high-tech manufacturers provide customers with software add-ons or embedded software in hardware products. And, many enterprises