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Dataversity
Three Steps for More Secure Open-Source Use
Being license compliant when using open source software is necessary in order to protect intellectual property (IP), minimize legal complexity, and secure real financial savings. Here, Flexera’s Nicole Segerer offers insight about best practices for open source management.
Dataversity
Evolving Software Business Models Require New Approaches to Customer Relationships
Within the realm of software monetization, an all-encompassing view of the customer relationship can bolster customer satisfaction, help develop new markets and create revenue. Flexera’s Nicole Segerer illustrates how flexible licensing models can support this approach and deliver value to customers.
ITWeb
Manage Open Source Software Licences to Reduce Risk
According to Flexera, open source users often under-report open source usage, resulting in licence compliance issues and vulnerabilities being present in their applications.
MarTech Advisor
Flexera Expands Software Monetization Portfolio With Revulytics: Q&A With Nicole Segerer & Vic DeMarines
In this exclusive Martech Buzz conversation, Nicole Segerer, vice president of global marketing and enablement and Vic DeMarines, vice president of usage analytics products at Flexera, discuss the details of this acquisition, their plan to leverage the software usage analytics space in the U.S., and more.
IT Briefcase
Getting the Most Out of Open Source While Managing License Compliance, Risk, and Security
IT Briefcase conducted an exclusive interview with Kendra Morton on Flexera’s annual State of Open Source License Compliance report.
Ziff Davis Toolbox
Empower the Responsible Management of Open Source Software
Flexera's Dave McLoughlin discusses benefits of open source and how careful planning and management can minimize unintended consequences, protect data, and protect your business.
IoT Agenda
Positioning IoT to Profit through Product Packaging
This article, the fifth in a six-part series by Flexera’s Cris Wendt about monetizing IoT, evaluates product packaging: the methodology for partitioning product functionality to bring different products to market with a variety of offerings, such as a single product leveraged by different SKUs to generate multiple revenue streams.
AiThority
Flexera Software Recognized for Innovation in Enterprise IoT With 2020 IoT Breakthrough Award
Flexera has been selected as the winner of the “IoT Enablement Company of the Year for the Enterprise Market” award in the 4th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program from IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global Internet-of-Things (IoT) market.
MarTech Series
New Business Models Require a New View on Customer Relationships, Flexera Software Study Finds
Research from Flexera shows how product managers and customer executives at software and device manufacturers can better understand and improve the relationship between monetization and customer relationships.
IoT Agenda
Monetization metrics: understanding the units of value that matter to customers
This article is the fourth in a six-part series about monetizing IoT by Flexera's Cris Wendt. In this article, Wendt offers a deep dive into monetization metrics and the units that matter most to customers.
BetaNews
New software delivery models mean a change to customer relationships
Flexera's 3rd Monetization Monitor finds that the move to new business models for software, such as subscription services and SaaS, will require suppliers to better understand their customer relationships and offer improved usage data.
AiThority
Usage Insights: The 3 Keys to Software Monetization Innovation
How is software being used? Understanding that answer can lead to innovative software monetization strategies. Here, Flexera’s Matthew Dunkley evaluates what usage is, how to embrace effective data collection, and SaaS leaders’ best practices.
Legal IT Professionals
How Legal Teams Can Support Proper Use of Open Source Software
Open source software is often free in price, but it is never free from obligations. The security risk that OSS creates isn’t that the code is likely to be problematic, but that users won’t know where it is—or where to patch it. Flexera’s Marty Mellican, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, addresses how organizations can use OSS properly and take appropriate precautions with it.
MarTech Series
Usage Insights: The 3 Keys to Software Monetization Innovation
Innovation is a watchword for software suppliers and IoT companies. In the process of developing meaningful products, one particular aspect must be evaluated: how software is used. Flexera’s Matthew Dunkley evaluates the role of usage data in establishing efficient monetization plans.
Ziff Davis Toolbox
How Usage Insights Will Drive Next Era of Software Monetization
Software usage data allows product managers and teams to improve software, deliver enhanced value to customers, and to stay-on trend with usage patterns and to implement consumption-based models. Usage data is critically important, whether the software is cloud-based, on-prem, or embedded on devices.
IoT Agenda
IoT monetization framework: The IoT stack and how to monetize it
This article is the second in a six-part series about monetizing IoT by Flexera's Cris Wendt. In this article, Wendt defines the IoT stack and discusses how best to monenetize it.
IT Briefcase
Software Usage Management and Insights – How Product Managers Can Avoid Flying Blind
Suppliers who don’t develop usage data collection capabilities run the risk of falling behind their competitors. With the software monetization solutions available today there’s no reason for suppliers to operate in the dark.
BetaNews
Better understanding of software usage helps drive monetization
Flexera's Monetization Monitor: Usage Management & Insights report offers an industry benchmark for how companies are using usage data. BetaNews reports that "Software developers need to know not just whether an app is being used but also which features are most used and whether that use is increasing or declining."
Software Business Growth
Considerations for Implementing a Subscription Software Model
As a software company implements a framework for moving to subscription, thoughtful consideration of needs (the supplier’s and its customers’) are important parts of the plan. This article by Flexera’s Cris Wendt highlights the keys to an effective implementation.
IT.Toolbox.com
4 Guidelines for Establishing a Robust Subscription Business
Subscription is a highly flexible software monetization model. This article by Flexera's Scott Niemann outlines its benefits and consider best practices for implementation in order to maximize the long-term revenue growth opportunities of this rapidly growing model.