Customer Newsletter

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Flexera Logo update for Snow Atlas customers: What’s changing?

With new integrations coming between Flexera One and Snow Atlas environments, Flexera is changing the logo from the Snow Atlas snowflake to the Flexera One logo. This change will drive consistency in navigation across products. The updated logo will be visible on the following Snow Atlas product pages:

• The login page
• The Snow Atlas Home page
• The lefthand pane for Snow Atlas navigation

AI-powered documentation support is now available on Snow Atlas and Flexera One

We’re excited to share that Flexera Assist, our new AI-driven documentation assistant, is now available on both Snow Atlas and Flexera One. Designed to help you get faster, more accurate answers from our product documentation, Flexera Assist reduces the need to search manually—or submit a support ticket for common questions.

Save time and keep your workflows running smoothly

Whether you're troubleshooting, exploring new features, or onboarding team members, Flexera Assist delivers the right guidance at the right moment—so your team can stay focused and productive.

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AI-assisted entitlements ingestion now in Flexera One ITAM

Managing entitlements just got easier. Flexera One ITAM now uses AI to streamline purchase order ingestion, helping you keep your entitlements data accurate and up to date—with less manual effort.

By automatically recognizing and mapping information from purchase orders, this new capability reduces administrative overhead and supports cleaner, more reliable license positions.

Now is a great time to assess your current ingestion workflows and explore where AI can help you scale entitlement management with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Ready to scale entitlement management with AI?

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Cloud sustainability impact intelligence now available in Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization (CCO)

As sustainability becomes a growing priority, Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization (CCO) now offers real-time visibility into your cloud’s environmental impact. Using ISO-certified data, you can track emissions, electricity consumption and water usage across your cloud footprint—all within the same platform you already use to optimize costs.

This update helps your teams make more informed decisions, align with ESG goals and bring sustainability into everyday cloud operations.

Now may be the right time to review your reporting needs or identify where environmental data can support broader business initiatives.

This add-on to CCO helps your teams make more informed decisions, align with ESG goals and bring sustainability into everyday cloud operations.

Ask your Account Manager for a demo, and learn how environmental data can support broader business initiatives.

Enhanced Salesforce integration now available in Flexera One SaaS Management

Flexera One SaaS Management now delivers deeper insights into your Salesforce environment, with more detailed reporting and improved differentiation between user roles and profiles.

This enhancement helps your teams strengthen Salesforce license governance, ensuring licenses are assigned appropriately and costs are controlled.

It’s a good opportunity to review your Salesforce usage and refine governance policies to maximize value from your investment.

Looking to optimize your Salesforce investment?

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Mass filters enhance portfolio overviews in Flexera One IT Visibility

With the new mass filters feature, you can now quickly analyze large datasets and perform comparative analysis more efficiently within IT Visibility. This enhancement helps you gain faster, clearer insights into your portfolio—making it easier to identify trends, risks and opportunities.

It’s a great time to leverage these filters to streamline your reporting and support more informed decision-making.

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Optimize Amazon EKS AI workloads with GPU sharing: Introducing GPU time-slicing in Spot Ocean

Flexera recently rolled out GPU time-slicing in Spot Ocean for Amazon EKS , a feature that helps optimize GPU-heavy AI pipelines without fuss.

Here’s what to consider:

• Maximize GPU efficiency: Instead of assigning one whole GPU per pod—often wasteful for inference workloads—time-slicing enables multiple pods to share a GPU based on actual usage. That means more pods, less idle GPU and lower overall infrastructure cost.
• Keep it simple: Configure the number of replicas per GPU in Spot Ocean once, and autoscaling handles the rest based on real-time workload needs.
• Know the trade‑offs: Shared memory and fault domains may be best suited for controlled batch or inference use cases—not for isolated multi‑tenant training jobs. Plus, latency might vary slightly due to serialized GPU access.

Your next step? Consider reviewing your current EKS GPU workloads—especially inference services or hyperparameter tuning jobs—to see if time-slicing could help reduce your GPU footprint and costs without changing application architecture. And if you're tracking cloud sustainability metrics, more efficient GPU usage helps there, too.

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Unbound: Solving Google Cloud CUD challenges with Eco

Google Cloud’s Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) and Sustained Use Discounts (SUDs) offer powerful savings—but managing them can be tricky due to rigid bindings, no exchange options and forecasting gaps. The new Spot Eco dashboard now gives you clear visibility into:

• Savings and remaining commitment value by time, region and service
• Your GCP commitment portfolio—across Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, and more

What this means for your organization:

• Evaluate whether your CUDs are aligned with current and projected usage.
• Thread the balance between automated SUD benefits and longer‑term CUD savings.
• Proactively adjust commitment tiers or mixes based on real‑time utilization.

Use the dashboard to uncover under‑utilized commitments and start conversations around optimizing spend. It’s a great time to revisit your GCP usage trends and explore whether a tiered CUD approach could improve ROI while giving you the flexibility to adapt.

Don’t want to go it alone? Watch the Eco demo or claim your free commitment consultancy here.

Automated Kubernetes real-time rightsizing with Spot Ocean

Flexera’s Spot Ocean now offers in-place automated K8s rightsizing, allowing you to set customizable rules that adjust resources live, based on workload demands. This helps reduce waste, improve efficiency and uncover actionable cost-saving insights—all without manual intervention.

Already an Ocean customer? Contact your account team to upgrade to the unlimited version.

New to Ocean? Start saving while you run—request a free demo and connect with a cloud solutions architect.

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Coming soon: Live rightsizing for Kubernetes in Spot Ocean

To help you better manage resource-intensive, peak-heavy workloads—like those running Java— Spot Ocean will soon introduce live rightsizing for Kubernetes. This new capability adjusts pod resource allocations in real time, automatically scaling back after usage spikes to reduce waste and improve efficiency.

For your teams, this means more responsive optimization with less manual tuning—freeing up budget and resources while ensuring performance isn’t compromised.

Now’s a good time to identify which workloads could benefit from dynamic rightsizing and prepare for a more adaptive Kubernetes environment.

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2025 State of ITAM Report: Insights every IT leader needs

The Flexera 2025 State of ITAM Report is here—your go-to resource for understanding the evolving landscape of IT asset management. This year’s report uncovers critical trends and challenges that IT and procurement leaders can’t afford to ignore:

• Nearly 50% of organizations have faced over $1M in audit costs in the past three years
• Microsoft, IBM and SAP remain top auditors—with SAP audit activity on the rise
• One in four ITAM teams report significant SaaS waste
• SaaS tracking efforts are falling behind rapid adoption rates

Get the full report to explore these findings and discover practical strategies to reduce costs, improve visibility and strengthen your ITAM program in 2025.

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Highlights from FinOps X 202

It was great to connect at FinOps X 2025 — whether you joined a session, stopped by our booth, or grabbed a hat from the closing party, we’re glad you were part of it.

To keep the momentum going, we pulled together key takeaways and highlights from the sessions we hosted on this blog — the full session recordings will be available soon.

Sessions you may have seen (or missed):

AI Dreams Big – FinOps Keeps the Receipts

With Kimberly Floss (PepsiCo) & Lisa Gerger (Northrop Grumman)
AI is just more cloud spend — and the same FinOps principles apply. The secret? Trust. They shared how strong engineering relationships enabled proactive, cost-aware AI planning (not just cleanup). Bonus: turn savings into a game, and give heroes a spotlight.

“It Depends”: FinOps Strategies for Every Stage

With Steve Evans (Chegg) & Jay Litkey (Flexera)
Even a one-person FinOps effort can save millions. Steve shared how a former music student turned optimizer saved Chegg $1.5M in year one — and why measuring success starts with business alignment and a “bottom-up” approach.

Navigating the FinOps Waters: Barracuda’s Journey

With Cody McDaniels (Barracuda) & Sam Barbeau (Flexera)
Cost insights don’t build themselves. Cody revealed how building trust with engineers—by solving their problems, not just cutting costs—was the foundation for getting FinOps embedded across teams.

Splunking Into Cloud Cost Data

With David Owens (Splunk) & Colin Jack (Flexera)
How do you take data overload and turn it into meaningful action? This session showed how Splunk is turning cloud cost data into an asset, not an obstacle.

Drive Cost Savings with GreenOps Data

With James Hall (Greenpixie) & Mark Bradley (Flexera)
Sustainability isn’t just a “nice to have.” This session explored how real-time, ISO-certified carbon data (from Greenpixie) is being used alongside cost metrics to drive smarter, greener decisions in FinOps teams.

Shared Goals, Shared Gains: Why ITAM and FinOps Belong Together

With Rich Gibbons (Synyega) & Jeremy Chaplin (Flexera)
ITAM and FinOps teams can align tools, data, and governance to drive success through cross-functional collaboration

How Convergence is Driving the Future of Tooling

Rich Gibbons (Synyega), Stephen Old (Synyega), James Hall (Greenpixie) & Mark Bradley (Flexera)
FinOps, ITAM, SaaS, GreenOps, and AI are converging to transform IT tooling—unlocking smarter visibility, efficiency, and strategy for the future of IT management.

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FinOps and ITAM are tearing down the walls

In June 2025, the FinOps Foundation and the ITAM Forum announced a strategic partnership to bridge long-standing divides between cloud‑cost management and traditional IT asset management. Today, more than ever, these disciplines overlap—FinOps teams are taking on SaaS, license, private cloud and data-center cost oversight, while ITAM experts bring vital software licensing and asset lifecycle insights.

For those already working across ITAM and FinOps, this is a timely reminder to evaluate internal alignment, data consistency and shared goals. It’s an opportunity to identify where stronger collaboration could lead to better visibility, accountability and outcomes.

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Innovate more, spend less: a FinOps strategy in 2025 

Our latest report explores how organizations—like yours—are navigating the challenge of driving innovation while managing costs effectively. It offers practical approaches for optimizing cloud usage, enhancing governance and making informed technology decisions.

We encourage you to use these insights to refine your strategies and continue maximizing the value from your Flexera solutions as your environment evolves.

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Monthly SAM Best Practices Webinar (Flexera One)

Note: This webinar series is for current Flexera One customers seeking to optimize their Software Asset Management (SAM) practices. Software asset management (SAM) is a discipline with great benefits—but also great challenges. This webinar series aims to unite and educate SAM practitioners and executives. Each hour-long session will typically cover news for 10 minutes before a deep dive into a topic announced one week prior.

Join us for the next session on July 10.

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Join our next in-person ITAM User Group

Join us on Monday, July 21 for our in-person ITAM User Group at Cardinal Health HQ, Dublin, OH. Whether you're using Flexera One, IT Visibility, Snow Atlas, or any of our powerful solutions, this is your chance to connect, collaborate and shape the future of IT Asset Management. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Join our next in-person Cloud/FinOps User Group

Join us on Tuesday, July 22 for our in-person Cloud/FinOps User Group at Cardinal Health HQ, Dublin, OH. Dedicated to advancing your Cloud and FinOps strategy, this is your chance—whether you’re using Flexera One, Snow, or Spot products—to connect with fellow cloud and FinOps professionals, exchange insights and help shape the future of cloud financial management. We can’t wait to connect with you!

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Join Us for an exclusive rooftop happy hour after AWS Summit NYC

We’re excited to invite you to a special evening hosted by Flexera and SoftwareOne following the AWS Summit in New York City. Connect with fellow cloud and FinOps professionals, enjoy complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres and discuss strategies for optimizing cloud spend and governance in a relaxed, rooftop setting.

Event Details:

• Date: Wednesday, July 16
• Time: 5 p.m.–8 p.m. EST
• Location: Versa NYC Rooftop, 218 W 35th St, New York, NY 10001

Space is limited, so please RSVP to secure your spot. We look forward to connecting with you in person!

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