Top 9 Alternatives to Flexera

Flexera One is an IT asset management solution that enables IT teams to gain visibility and control of their organizational assets across multiple environments such as SaaS, containers, and clusters. 

Flexera is a good IT asset management tool, but it may not fit everyone's requirements. It has some drawbacks, such as its cloud management UI seems pretty outdated, and the tool sometimes goes down. So, if you're looking for alternatives to Flexera, this post is for you.

In this post, we are going to discuss nine alternatives to Flexera, and the alternatives on which we are going to focus are:

1. Zluri

2. Augmentt 

3. Zylo

4. BetterCloud

5. Binadox

6. ManageEngine

7. AssetSonar

8. Ampliphae

9. Cledara

Before discussing these alternatives, let’s learn more about Flexera first.

Key Features of Flexera

• Shows used under-used and redundant technologies in the environment and helps IT to optimize cost.

• Manages licenses and renewals and keeps it compliant with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA.

• Workflows help to automate manual processes such as renewals, offboarding, and onboarding.

Drawbacks of Flexera

• Support sometimes takes a long time to respond and resolve issues.

• Tedious onboarding process for new members.

• Steep learning curve and non-intuitive user interface.

Now, let’s see in detail about different Flexera alternatives.

Top 9 Flexera Alternatives

1. Zluri

Zluri is a SaaS management platform that helps IT teams keep their SaaS stack organized. It helps organizations save time by automating IT tasks, reducing security and compliance risks, and saving money on SaaS apps.

With the number of SaaS apps proliferating in organizations, keeping track of subscription costs, renewal dates, and app ownership in spreadsheets is too much. In addition, it's possible to make mistakes while manually entering data in spreadsheets. Another issue with tracking SaaS apps in spreadsheets is they don't update automatically. Additionally, spreadsheets have limited functionality. For instance, they cannot identify shadow IT that can pose security or compliance risks. 

Zluri solves these problems by giving you visibility into your SaaS stack. Its discovery engine takes input from SSO, spend management apps and directly integrates with over 500 SaaS apps to surface your SaaS landscape with nearly 100% accuracy. With Zuri, you can identify and eliminate unused and underused apps lying in your SaaS stack. In addition, you get alerts on upcoming SaaS renewals. Further, you can automate IT tasks, such as provisioning and de-provisioning of users from apps.

Zluri: Key Features 

• Discovering your organization’s SaaS subscriptions: Zluri has the largest app library and will work over 120,000+ applications. Zluri discovery engine uses five methods to discover all your apps with near 100% accuracy.

• Renewal Monitoring: With Zluri, you don't need to worry about surprise renewals. Zluri alerts about your upcoming renewals, giving you enough time to decide whether or not you need the app. You can decide that through the SaaS usage insights from Zluri.

• Applications Cost Optimization: Zluri helps you standardize your applications and eliminate budget wastage. Zluri traces your SaaS ecosystem and monitors, measures, and helps you take control of your SaaS to spend. It also helps you find hidden apps.

Check how much you can save with Zluri.

• Smooth Vendor Management: Zluri has an automated vendor management system with all the features needed to manage your SaaS stack. It maintains a SaaS system of record by integrating with your core business system, after which it prepares to maintain your vendor life cycle with your predefined workflows. 

Pros

• Discovering your organization’s subscriptions.

• Category and function of each application.

• Find unused and underused apps.

• Removing duplicate apps with overlapping functions.

• Automating contract renewals.

• Automating employee onboarding and onboarding.

• Remove unsafe apps.

• Maintain audit readiness for compliance.

• Offers custom integrations with 36 hours TAT.

• Direct integrations with 320+ popular apps for feature-level usage insights.

• Good choice if you may find it in multiple currencies.

Customer Rating

• Capterra-5/5

• G2 - 4.9/5

2. Augmentt 

Augmentt is a SaaS management platform that enables organizations to discover, optimize and manage their SaaS applications. It automatically categorizes applications based on their jobs and risks. Also, it classifies applications based on security, financial or productivity risks.

It extracts critical SaaS data and provides insights on usage trends by individuals and departments, and helps IT to make data-driven decisions.

Features

• Customizable dashboards and reports enable you to see what you need to focus on.

• Maintains database of over 15000 vendors and applications which helps to give greater visibility and granular level metrics of applications.

• Gives the flexibility to create a unique classification and view of the SaaS database as per the organizations' requirements.

Pros

• Clean and intuitive user interface helps users to navigate and access different functionalities easily.

Cons

• Features are basic and may not fulfil if you have custom and complex requirements.

Customer Rating

• G2- 5/5

• Capterra- No ratings yet

3. Zylo

Zylo is a SaaS management platform that primarily focuses on applications spend management and shadow IT. It also helps IT to manage renewals, contracts and optimize software licenses. Furthermore, it enhances employees' experience and ensures compliance with regulations such as GDPR and HIPPA. Keap, Outreach, Autodesk, and Adobe are some well-known companies that use Zylo.

Features

• Provides actionable recommendations for optimizing SaaS spending.

• Mitigate risks associated with shadow IT.

• Ensure compliance with regulations

Pros

• Identify duplicate applications and provide insights about underused, unused, and used applications.

• Tracks the stats of your software app like the contract term, value, number of licenses, etc.

• Easy to use

Cons

• Due to the smaller application library (~20,000), it may fail to discover many applications.

• Requires manual tinkering in the implementation, and this causes long to set up time.

• Does not offer custom integrations.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.8/5 

• Capterra- 4.5/5

4. BetterCloud

BetterCloud is a SaaS management software that enables IT teams to manage, optimize and secure their organization's SaaS applications. It helps to discover applications and build automation for onboarding and offboarding. Furthermore, IT can manage its licenses and renewals using BetterCloud. Organizations such as Zoom and Walmart use BetterCloud to manage and secure their SaaS stack. 

Features

• Keep track of application usage and provide insights about it to make data-driven decisions and optimize cost.

• Eliminates duplicate applications and reduces the risk associated with shadow IT.

• Provide workflow templates for bulk operations.

• Automate tasks such as upgrades, renewal management, and more.

Pros

• Direct integration with 60+ popular SaaS applications.

• Helps to streamline onboarding and offboarding processes via workflows.

• Excellent customer service and keeps updated via webinar for new features.

Cons

• Steep learning curve.

• Very few direct integrations compared with other SMP tools.

• Very expensive when compared with other tools with similar features.

Customer Rating

• G2- 4.4/5 

• Capterra- 3.6/5

5. Binadox

Binadox helps IT teams to easily monitor, control, and optimize SaaS spend across the organization and empowers them to make data-driven decisions. Its real-time monitoring and management of applications reduce internal and external threats. Also, it reduces the audit risk by ensuring applications are compliant with regulatory requirements.

Features

• Application discovery and monitoring.

• User tracking and reporting avoid underused and unused applications.

• Shadow IT detection.

Pros

• Highly customizable and quick integration with tools like Office 365, Flexera, Okta, etc.

• Its intuitive interface makes it easy to use.

Cons

• Recommendations cannot be automated and need to be manually worked on.

• Support takes time to resolve issues.

Customer Rating

• G2- 0/5

• Capterra- No ratings yet

6. ManageEngine

ManageEngine's AssetExplorer is an IT Asset Management (ITAM) software that helps businesses to monitor and manage different assets from the Planning phase to the Disposal phase. 

AssetExplorer provides umpteen ways to ensure the discovery of all the assets in your organization. 

It is very easy to install and simple to use. As a result, organizations can manage software and hardware assets throughout their lifecycle.

You can keep a record of software licenses, ensure software license compliances and track purchases and contracts. 

Features

• Discover all Software and Hardware asset.

• Manage complete IT asset lifecycle from the planning phase to disposal.

• Know the total value of your IT asset anytime.

• Ensure software license compliance by controlling distribution, enforcement of the policy, contract, and regulatory requirements.

• Make informed decisions about hardware and software purchases throughout the entire IT Life cycle.

• Track contracts and purchase orders

Pros

• Easy to install and use.

• Responsive and excellent support.

Cons

• Not suitable for small enterprises as it is costly.

• The reporting feature is complicated.

7. AssetSonar

AssetSonar is an IT asset management tool used by IT teams to manage organizations' IT assets throughout its lifecycle. It is an easy-to-use tool and has a simple integration with service desk solutions such as Jira and Zendesk. IT teams can control and gain visibility of entire IT assets with the help of AssetSonar. Further, AssetSonar's robust security helps to reduce risks from internal and external threats.

Features

• Proactively manages license updates, renewals, and payments with timely alerts.

• Gives visibility to assets and provides data about utilization.

• Reduce risk and improve reliability by simplifying IT change management.

Pros

• Easy access to reports and timely updates.

• Easy to use and intuitive user interface.

Cons

• There is no feature to build a map with all the (configuration items) CI's in order to build the configuration management database (CMDB).

• Limited customization.

Customer Rating

• G2- 5/5

• Capterra- 5/5

8. Ampliphae

Ampliphae provides an affordable and easy-to-use SaaS management tool for IT teams to gain control over their entire SaaS applications. It keeps track of applications, users, and alerts for any risks associated with the applications. Further, it helps to reduce manual efforts required in an audit by automating the compliance of applications.

Features

• Complete visibility of SaaS applications.

• Helps in managing renewals and optimizing licenses cost.

• Vendor management and SaaS spend management.

Pros

• Provide insights about the various scope of optimizing the cost.

• Keeps track of users and applications.

• Reduce risk associated with Shadow IT. 

Cons

• Very limited features.

• Does not offer SaaS buying and negotiation with vendors.

Customer Rating

• Capterra- No rating available

• G2- No rating available

9. Cledara

Cledara is a SaaS management platform that acts as a single source to see and manage all your organization's applications. It also streamlines the onboarding process and helps to share applications across the organization. Further, it gives visibility to the state of applications and helps in eliminating duplicate applications.

Features

• Single source of truth for all applications.

• Helps in managing subscriptions and renewals of the applications.

• Save costs and avoid surprise charges by giving the application's information complete visibility.

Pros

• Provides insights about application usage. 

• Renewal management.

• Gives complete visibility of all subscriptions and users. 

• Real-time reporting.

Cons

• Steep learning curve due to overwhelming features.

• The initial setup is tedious.

• Limited direct integrations compared to other SMP tools.

Customer Rating

• G2- No ratings yet 

• Capterra- No ratings yet

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