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“While we’re a global company, the Chicago area has always been Flexera’s home base. It’s a great honor to be named to this list, as it reflects our goal to make Flexera the best place for local, talented tech professionals to find engaging work and great camaraderie,” said Jim Ryan, President & CEO of Flexera. “We’re thrilled to have the recognition.”

The Flexera IoT Monetization platform brings together the data and processes needed to implement new software and data-driven IoT business models. Flexera enables recurring revenue streams from digital solutions and provides valuable usage insight.

The report will help product and customer executives at software and device manufacturers better understand the relationship between monetization and customer relationships.

In exhaustive research on the SLM space over the past decade, updated Frost & Sullivan reports found:

“The Top Workplaces award is about much more than recognition and celebration,” said Eric Rubino, CEO of Energage. “Our research also shows that these organizations achieve higher referral rates, lower employee turnover, and double the employee engagement levels. It just goes to show that being intentional about culture delivers bottom-line results.”

“In the eleven years that Joe has been our CFO, Flexera has quadrupled in size. Joe has been instrumental to our growth and we’re grateful for his leadership and partnership. I’m pleased that he will help us identify his successor to continue that growth trajectory,” said Jim Ryan, president & CEO of Flexera. “I wish Joe a retirement full of well-deserved down-time.”

“Our research shows considerable growth of usage-based monetization models and high-performing product teams leveraging usage data to improve software and provide customers more value,” said Nicole Segerer, Director of Global Enablement at Flexera. “It doesn’t matter if software is in the cloud, on-prem or embedded on devices, or how it’s licensed today: usage data is essential. Without usage intelligence, product teams aren’t armed with the right data to make strategic decisions, have issues to align price with value and risk falling behind.”

The Flexera Monetization Monitor is available at https://info.flexerasoftware.com/SWM-WP-Monetization-Monitor-Report1.

Full Support for MSIX
Microsoft’s MSIX enables cleaner installations and uninstalls by running applications in their own containers. “MSIX presents an opportunity for developers to enhance the installation experience – faster and more reliable. We are excited to see Flexera’s commitment to MSIX to ensure that software suppliers easily benefit from all the advantages,” said John Vintzel, Principal Program Manager Lead for MSIX.

“Everyone at Flexera is proud of the continued recognition we’re receiving. To us, it’s a testament to our leading solution for software asset management,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. “And as enterprises increasingly adopt SaaS and public cloud technologies, we have also significantly expanded our portfolio to offer solutions that help customers optimize and govern their full hybrid IT landscape.

Flexera is the largest homegrown technology company in the Chicago area, employing more than 1,300 globally with 288 in Chicago, and serving more than 51,000 customers worldwide. The Chicago headquarters, located in Itasca, has added 97 staffers since Q1 2018, with 42 positions currently open.

“I’ve been with Flexera for more than twenty years and have seen the company transform into this amazing tech unicorn through a combination of passionate team members, strategic acquisitions, innovative products and committed customers,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera.

Flexera’s taking its Software Monetization technology to the edge and recently launched FlexNet EdgeTM. The smart edge server enables entitlement-driven software and firmware updates for Internet connected and disconnected software and devices.  Flexera’s enhanced offering empowers IoT companies and intelligent device manufacturers to implement their digital business models, making automated updates and better control of edge devices part of their IoT management and monetization processes.

Employees completed a confidential survey about workplace culture, and the results were compared to responses from other companies in the third largest U.S. city.  The anonymous survey measured several aspects of culture – including Alignment, Execution and Connection. A numerical value was attached to each statement, creating the overall score.

Even as the number of connected devices continues to grow, there are key use cases where applications and devices remain intentionally disconnected from the Internet – including high security business applications, high-performance computing software, medical devices and industrial equipment.  Suppliers need to keep these applications and devices up-to-date, send security updates and deliver the value available with new product versions.

Out-of-the-Box Support to Build MSIX Packages

Microsoft’s new packaging format, MSIX, brings together the best of MSI, AppX and App-V into one package and runs applications in their own containers, enabling cleaner installations and uninstalls.  InstallShield 2018 R2 supports creating MSIX packages or migrating existing MSI projects effortlessly.  Developers will be able to use existing installation projects to generate MSIX packages with just a few clicks.

Software suppliers will learn how to grow their digital leadership position, deliver excellent customer experiences and increase revenue from software, digital services and IoT devices. Topics include:

• Pricing and monetization strategies for SaaS and IoT offerings
• Successful monetization strategies for subscription businesses
• The value of usage data and insights for smarter product development and pricing
• Application security and updates for connected and disconnected devices

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Microsoft introduced MSIX to solve the negative performance and reliability impact associated with long-term installation and removal of software from Windows systems.  As a self-contained solution which operates in its own virtual space, it’s capable of a clean installation and removal process which supports Microsoft’s quest for users to “never regret installing an application again”.  The platform combines all of the good things about previous package formats, and makes one new super format that’s clean and trustworthy.

FlexNet Code Insight, Flexera’s next-generation open source security and compliance platform, is now the technology behind KPMG’s software composition analysis offering, which helps clients detect open source license compliance risk and security vulnerabilities.

“FlexNet Code Insight gives software vendors a helping hand to get ahead of a very real threat impacting the entire software supply chain,” said Jeff Luszcz, Vice President of Product Management at Flexera.  “More than 50 percent of code contained in commercial software releases is open source.  However, with the steady increase in vulnerabilities found in unmanaged open source code, unsuspecting software buyers are unaware of the vulnerability risk they face.  By adding ease-of-use, speed and intelligence, FlexNet Code Insight provides the most comprehensive approach to remo

The anonymous survey measures several aspects of workplace culture – including alignment, execution and connection, just to name a few.  The Top Workplace list is based solely on an employee feedback survey administered by Energage, LLC (formerly WorkplaceDynamics), a leading provider of technology-based employee engagement tools.