
Overview
Moving to the cloud? Most companies don't have the right information or visibility into their applications to move to the cloud. Successful migrations to cloud require proper planning and analysis to determine the right applications to move, their associated key application dependencies, the right cloud provider, the best pricing model and more.
The first step in your migration to the cloud is to understand your portfolio in the context of the business services that drive value for your company. Unlike traditional dependency mapping, we look at how a web server and database combine to operate as a business service. Anything you evaluate has to be done with an eye to the relationship between both. You must look at an entire business service and discover its dependencies.
Flexera Cloud Migration and Modernization Benefits: -Complete application dependency mapping: See your entire application portfolio and associated dependencies in a single view. -Service mapping for your environment, not just dependency mapping: The database of dependencies can be hundreds of millions of rows. Automating the process of turning those dependencies into business services is a critical capability of discovery tooling. -Automated and intelligent cloud migration prioritization: Prioritize your applications to migrate based on rules configurable by you. -IaaS Cost Modeling: Accurately model the cost of many public cloud providers.
Public Offer provides Burst License for collection for one month for initial analysis and trial (1 unit includes 50 devices). Data is available for 12 month period.
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Highlights
- Agentless Discovery - Discover complete information about the state of your IT environment in days, not months for network devices, routers, switches, Windows and Linux Servers and more.
- Plan for Changes in your IT and Automated Intelligent Application Grouping - Organize and analyze the high-quality data and sequence your workloads for migrating to the cloud.
- Right Size and Compare: Evaluate cost and resource requirements for public and private cloud for your cloud migrations. Cut your IaaS cost by an average of 66%.
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Unified insights have cut cloud waste and now drive daily data‑driven decisions
What is our primary use case?
Flexera One provides flexible and easy cloud management that allows us to manage multiple clouds, both private and public. I love the detailed reporting and user-friendly interface that makes it easy to manage cloud environments. Overall, I use Flexera One as my main system of insights to manage the entire IT estate. My ITAM and FinOps teams use it daily to track license consumption, monitor cloud usage, and automate messy data from multiple sources. It eliminates duplicate SaaS subscriptions by identifying licenses.
A specific example of how my team uses Flexera One day-to-day is that it stops the company from wasting money and fixes runaway cloud bills by identifying oversized and unused resources that could be turned off. It also takes messy raw data from different sources and clears and standardizes the format using its massive Technopedia library for millions of products.
In addition to my main use case, I also use Flexera One as my main centralized system to manage the entire hybrid environment. It provides end-to-end visibility by collecting data from hardware, software, and cloud services into a single dashboard where it is easy to make data-driven decisions.
How has it helped my organization?
Flexera One has positively impacted my organization by cleaning up messy data. It is a very powerful tool, so it is complex to understand. It is well-suited for large companies like mine that face major challenges in managing data. I love it because it displays spending in a single location.
In terms of specific outcomes that show how Flexera One has benefited my organization, it has lowered my cloud operations costs, driven faster data-driven FinOps decisions, and strengthened governance and accountability.
What is most valuable?
Flexera One offers a very complex yet powerful platform that manages everything at once. I love that it particularly finds and lists all software, hardware, and cloud services in one place. It also allows me to manage my cloud bill by taking all data from different sources and cleaning it in a standard format.
The feature that stands out most for me in my day-to-day work is the asset discovery and self-service user interface. The self-service user interface is straightforward and easy to use, providing a marketplace presence that helps automate post-provisioning and integration with ITSM .
I would also add that the asset discovery capabilities provide good asset discovery functionalities, which allow data import from beacons and agents installed. This has been useful for many users in getting a comprehensive view of their assets across different clouds.
What needs improvement?
Flexera One can be improved by eliminating the need to manually stitch insights across systems.
In addition, it should provide a single pane of glass across cost, optimization, comments, and sustainability.
Further improvements needed for Flexera One include allowing multidimensional reporting, such as showing Kubernetes spot optimization plus reserved instance coverage plus carbon intensity in one view.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Flexera One for the past five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Flexera One is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Flexera One is highly scalable, meaning it can grow with my organization's needs.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Flexera One is provided by a very responsive and solution-oriented support team that is also very dedicated.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before Flexera One, I used the Flexera Cloud Management Platform.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment as it has lowered my cloud operating costs, driven faster data-driven FinOps decisions, and strengthened governance and accountability in my organization.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that the cost is not straightforward. It should provide a single pane of glass across cost.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Flexera One, I evaluated other options, including the Flexera Cloud Management Platform.
What other advice do I have?
Flexera One is a highly recommendable tool because it offers better automation, cost optimization, and licensing insights in a single ecosystem. My additional thought about Flexera One is that it will be more effective if all modules are packaged as one integrated solution. I gave this review a rating of nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Unified cloud cost controls have provided clear visibility and governed complex hybrid workloads
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Flexera One is enterprise cost controls, as well as complete visibility and control across all public and private cloud environments.
A recent project with a customer that was very well published was Technicolor, which had a need to use Google Cloud , and RightScale and Flexera One was the tool that allowed them to manipulate, control, command, and contain costs as they used a tremendous amount of compute for video image rendering.
I have lots of different uses and applications for Flexera One, and it is important to make sure that it gets applied both from a control and governance perspective, as well as making sure from the very beginning when environments are established and maintained that cost controls are really the guiding principle.
What is most valuable?
The best features Flexera One offers include multi-cloud, single panel visibility of all usage.
The single panel visibility helps me and my organization day-to-day by eliminating the need to use a variety of different tools across environments.
Flexera One has impacted my organization positively in a variety of ways from a cost controls perspective, reduced time, and efficiency for team members, and the use case I shared is just one of millions of possible use cases that the platform has been used for at a variety of companies.
Sometimes I see cost savings in excess of 40 to 60 percent, with resources also in the same percentage area, depending on what the use case is and how much work and preparation was put into actually designing it appropriately for the use of the tool, as the more that had to get cleaned up or adjusted, the percentages could certainly even increase more.
What needs improvement?
People are pretty active from a product feedback perspective, so there is a variety of different features and things that I am sure could be improved, but I do not have one directly in mind.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started using Flexera One once I joined the company in 2012.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Flexera One is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Flexera One's scalability is amazing and really limitless.
How are customer service and support?
I always get very positive marks from a customer support perspective regarding Flexera One, with no issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was very fair for the value that was received, and the pricing and implementation, especially in the early days, was very well received.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using Flexera One is to plan wisely for cloud consumption and expect variable usage in the first three years and budget appropriately. I would rate this review as a 9.
Supports license compliance and reporting with strong discovery while monitoring capabilities require improvements
What is our primary use case?
Flexera One 's compliance tracking is excellent, although sometimes it does not provide the exact report due to the customer's environment, which can be improved. Otherwise, the compliance part is good, especially during the harvesting of the products and software, and the compliance metrics offer a good summary.
From my perspective, I would rate Flexera One an eight.
If asked whether I would recommend ServiceNow instead of Flexera One, I would not, because as a user who creates reports and provides compliance reports, I find ServiceNow more complex and less user-friendly. The lack of clear information and the improper identification of queues make it fall short compared to Flexera One, which I would rate around five or six in comparison.
What is most valuable?
The feature that I find most valuable in Flexera One is the discovery, which is crucial from an ITAM point of view to capture the entire environment and all the software installed in my customer's environment. Flexera One is really very comfortable and compatible with other tools such as SCCM and all the integration that it provides. Based on the discovery information it gathers for me, it truly helps me in my consumption report that I prepare. My customers do utilize Flexera One for multi-cloud management.
To measure the effectiveness of Flexera One's cost management features, I take into account user-based, device-based, and processor management metrics.
What needs improvement?
In terms of what could be improved about Flexera One from an ITAM point of view, I feel that if Flexera One could provide a calculation representation, it would be beneficial. While it shows various configurations regarding where my server and VM are placed, it does not indicate how many licenses are needed or how the calculations are performed.
To bring it closer to a ten, I would prioritize improvements in monitoring. For one of my customers, the monitoring aspect has been tricky due to the need for live database information, which could be enhanced using AI technology.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working on Flexera One for almost seven years, starting from a consultant point of view.
What about the implementation team?
I do not usually take part in the implementation of Flexera One, as we have developers for that purpose. I simply communicate my requirements and the customer's environmental needs to the developer who implements it.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Flexera One's pricing in the market is quite high, primarily because it is one of its kind. ServiceNow is another competitor gaining popularity due to offering various ITAM modules in one place, although I feel that it is not as capable as Flexera One.
What other advice do I have?
It depends from customer to customer and upon their environment, and I do not deal with selling the product independently. My responsibility is to sell the solution of the product and to assist the presales team in how we can help the customer with ITAM , while the presales team handles pitching the prices.
I am not sure about the specific impact Flexera One has had on their operations, as I haven't seen significant feedback regarding it.
I would rate my overall experience with this solution an eight.
Great tool
I have used other tools as well but flexera is most suitable for me.