ITASCA, IL -- (Marketwired) -- 07/17/14 -- Flexera Software, the leading provider of next-generation software licensing, compliance and installation solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today that it has received BMC Software Technology Alliance Program (TAP) validation for integration of its Software License Optimization Solution, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises, with three BMC Software solutions: BMC Remedy IT Asset Management, BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping and BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (Atrium CMDB). The integrations enable mutual customers to realize greater business value from their IT service catalog, CMDB, asset management and Software License Optimization solutions -- enhancing the overall value of the IT Services team to the enterprise.

"BMC is pleased to announce TAP validation of FlexNet Manager Suite with our three BMC solutions," said Clarence Hinton, BMC Software vice president, Corporate Development. "Validation shows that integrations meet our criteria, and that gives our customers proof of the solution's reliability. These integrations tightly couple industry-leading technology platforms to deliver a stronger value proposition to our mutual customers."

FlexNet Manager Suite includes BMC Atrium Discovery patterns that broaden configuration discovery to collect additional data required for identification, management and optimization of applications that use complex license models, such as IBM WebSphere PVU licenses. These patterns target software file and package evidence, hardware and user properties.

This enhanced evidence is consumed by FlexNet Manager Suite, ensuring that the software inventory it assembles is comprehensive, accurate and effective for delivering continual compliance and Software License Optimization. For example, license models frequently are based on an application's underlying hardware platform. Additionally, key operational functions, such as chargeback and show back, are centered on the person or organization that is using a given piece of hardware. Tying together rich hardware asset information from BMC Atrium Discovery enhances the knowledge base that FlexNet Manager Suite uses to deliver optimization.

The FlexNet Manager Suite integration with BMC Atrium CMDB includes federated access for comprehensive license analytics and reporting. Additionally, the CMDB is populated with the list of normalized software products per device by FlexNet Manager Suite.

"IT Service management and Software License Optimization are complementary business solutions essential to managing critical IT business," said Maureen Polte, Vice President of Product Management at Flexera Software. "By combining our strengths, we've demonstrated that we can enhance both BMC Software's and Flexera Software's ability to deliver significant business value to customers. We've shown that when two industry leaders work together to solve complex problems, ultimately the customer wins."

Resources:
FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises includes the following components:

• FlexNet Manager Platform
• FlexNet Manager for Microsoft
• FlexNet Manager for Adobe
• FlexNet Manager for IBM
• FlexNet Manager for Oracle
• FlexNet Manager for Symantec
• FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications
• FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications
• Workflow Manager
  
  
• Read our Blog on Software License Optimization
• FlexNet Manager Suite Success Stories
• Related Flexera Software Webinars
• Software License Optimization White Papers

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About Flexera Software
Flexera Software helps application producers and enterprises increase application usage and the value they derive from their software. Our next-generation software licensing, compliance and installation solutions are essential to ensure continuous licensing compliance, optimized software investments and to future-proof businesses against the risks and costs of constantly changing technology. Over 80,000 customers turn to Flexera Software as a trusted and neutral source for the knowledge and expertise we have gained as the marketplace leader for over 20 years and for the automation and intelligence designed into our products. For more information, please go to: www.flexerasoftware.com.

About the BMC Software Technical Alliance Program (TAP)
BMC TAP is the on ramp for third-party organizations to design, market, and sell products and integrations aligned with BMC Software solutions. TAP offers software tools and validation programs for alliance partners to produce high-quality, integrated solutions to meet the needs of shared customers.

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