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"Installation is a critical component of our internal development process, and our customers' experience with our solutions. Ensuring a fast, efficient and intuitive installation experience is critical," said Ron Guggisberg, Senior Software Engineer at Matrix Systems, an industry leader in access control and security management solutions. "The new capabilities announced today demonstrate why InstallShield remains an industry-leading solution to this day.

"We know that implementing Software License Optimization best practices saves enterprises as much as 25 percent of their software spend by drastically reducing license under-use, or shelfware, and over-use - license non-compliance that results in costly 'true-up' penalties from vendors. At the same time, enterprise software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers are leaving money on the table by failing to implement flexible licensing and entitlement management strategies to more effectively monetize their products," said Tom Canning, Vice President, APAC, Flexera Software.

Today's enhancements are particularly critical, because Flexera Software research shows that the majority of application producers are exposing their end users to avoidable security risks and are not taking advantage of an automated update management solution like FlexNet Connect to lower support calls and costs.

The new offices, located near the Munich Trade Fair, will better enable Flexera Software to provide superior service and support to enterprises, software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers in the region, and provide tailored solutions for its growing customer base in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the region, more than 2000 companies already have implemented Flexera Software's solutions.

The partnership will enable application producers leveraging Flexera Software's recently announced compliance management solution, which supports usage-based, trust-but-verify software licensing models, to automate customer billing through integration with Z-Business, Zuora's leading subscription management platform.

The survey questioned Flexera Software employees' on a variety of workplace satisfaction issues, and benchmarked those results against the responses of all companies participating. Employees were queried on Flexera Software's direction, how the company is executing on its plan, and how connected they feel with the larger organization. The survey also asked employees about their satisfaction with their jobs, managers, and compensation and benefits.

"Enterprises are in the midst of significant transformation - the consumerization of IT, virtualization and the cloud to name a few examples," said Maureen Polte, Vice President of Product Management at Flexera Software. "This creates new opportunities for software producers able to deliver next-generation solutions while creating an exceptional experience - starting with software installation. InstallShield 2012 Spring demonstrates Flexera Software's leadership in the installation management space as an enabler to desktop transformations and the cloud."

"Both the Java and Microsoft platforms are de facto standards in the IT industry with over 90% ⁱ market penetration among mainstream 'Global 2000' enterprises," said Mark Driver, research vice president at Gartner. "Accordingly, application providers require tools to support these standards for all aspects of the development process, including software licensing."

Enjoying double-digit growth, market leadership in its core markets - Licensing, Entitlement Management and Delivery, Installation, Software License Optimization and 

One challenge around software asset management has been the difficulty of accurately identifying and cataloging what software is currently installed on an organization's systems. The ISO 19770-2 application tagging standard enables the authoritative identification of applications on a device through the inclusion of a tag file with the application.

The Chicago-based company develops comprehensive solutions-from software licensing, installation, entitlement management and delivery to software deployment and license compliance and optimization-that play an increasingly strategic role in managing application usage at Global 2000 companies.

"The 2010 survey highlights a continued need for more sophisticated usage and entitlement tracking," said Amy Konary, Director of Software Pricing and Licensing Research at IDC. "The majority of enterprises believe that they are either underutilizing or out of compliance with their vendor software licenses, which equates to a significant opportunity for license optimization.

Resulting from a longstanding collaboration with Microsoft Corp., InstallShield continues to be a leader in the industry with its support for the latest Microsoft technologies and platforms. InstallShield 2011:

A June, 2010 survey conducted by Flexera Software found that most software vendors now view virtualization as an opportunity to grow revenues by as much as 50% and a way to reduce costs. Last year vendors saw it as a revenue risk. Of software vendors surveyed, 71% believe their customers are already deploying their software in virtual environments. However, until now vendors have lacked an easy way to protect and monetize the use of that software.

InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio 2010 is a Visual Studio extension that can be used to build Windows installer-based deployment packages for applications deployed on the Windows platform. The software provides an easy to use, modern, graphical development environment and the ability to build deployment projects using Microsoft's Team Foundation Server. InstallShield Limited Edition replaces Visual Studio Installer (VSI) as the preferred MSI installer development tool.

With flexibility that Linux, UNIX and other multiplatform developers haven't seen before, InstallAnywhere 2010 allows developers to comprehensively manage all phases of the installation lifecycle including installation, rollback, maintenance, repair, and uninstall., UNIX developers have traditionally created homegrown installations or native packages like RPM, PKG, etc. to deploy their applications, which did not provide the required level of flexibility to manage applications.

InstallShield 2010 functionality was driven by a concerted outreach effort to the solution's 71,000 enterprise and ISV users and Acresso's strong, expanding relationship with Microsoft product groups. Based on direct feedback from thousands of polled developers, this version includes new features that save time and effort for both developers and application deployment managers. Highlights of the InstallShield 2010 release are as follows:

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The combination of Intraware's SubscribeNet service and Acresso's FlexNet® product suite will create the industry leading and most advanced solution for entitlement and compliance management. The structure and terms of the deal have not changed since the agreement announcement on October 20, 2008. Intraware's common stock holders will receive $4.00 in cash for each of their shares.

The new address is:

Acresso Software
1000 Woodfield Road, Suite 400
Schaumburg, IL 60173
1-800-809-5659

More than 160 Acresso employees will be located in the new space, after occupying the previous location for over 11 years. Cushman and Wakefield represented the tenant.