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Software Piracy, Overuse, and Misuse are Equally Undermining Revenue Goals

Revenera, producer of leading solutions that help technology companies build better products, accelerate time-to-value, and unlock new revenue opportunities, today released the Revenera Monetization Monitor: Software Piracy and Compliance 2025 Outlook report.

Revenera’s Monetization Monitor 2025 Outlook Highlights Opportunities to Drive Profitability

As software suppliers work to drive profitability, extensive reliance on usage-based pricing is more prevalent than a year ago. Successful initiatives must overcome the biggest barriers to the growth of annual recurring revenue: delayed time to market-for-new features/enhancements and customer acquisition.

OSS Inspector, a New Plugin in Revenera's Software Composition Analysis Solution, Helps Streamline Open Source Security and Compliance

The Revenera OSS Inspector plugin enables developers using IntelliJ IDEA, an integrated development environment (IDE), to examine, within the IDE itself, the licenses and security vulnerabilities associated with the OSS components used in the application code. Without leaving the IDE, developers can immediately assess security risks to determine whether they require further review and remediation.

Dynamic Monetization, a New Monetization Service from Revenera, Helps Software Producers Expand Revenue

Dynamic Monetization is a new cloud service that allows technology companies to introduce flexible monetization models for connected software and devices. Dynamic Monetization joins Revenera’s monetization platform alongside existing Cloud Monetization and on-premises licensing and monetization services. The monetization services complement Revenera’s Entitlement Management platform, a single, integrated back-office system that enables the management of software entitlements throughout the revenue lifecycle and ensures rapid revenue recognition.

Flexera Completes Acquisition of Snow Software, Broadening its Portfolio for Technology Value Optimization

“Flexera and Snow share the same mission to maximize the value of technology for our customers.” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. “By joining forces, we bring together unrivaled domain expertise, unmatched technology data and intelligence, and the ability to deliver even more business outcomes for our joint customer base. Flexera’s acquisition of Snow unlocks new opportunities for hybrid ITAM and FinOps. We are excited to broaden the capabilities for customers and partners of both companies.”

Revenera Named “Overall Enterprise IoT Platform of the Year” in 8th Annual IoT Breakthrough Awards Program

The 2024 IoT Breakthrough Award recognizes the breakthrough innovation of Revenera’s IoT Monetization Platform that helps companies securely monetize their IoT stack (edge-to-cloud) through flexible packaging and monetization models, embedded licensing technology, and both cloud monetization and web services to connect SaaS apps. 

Revenera Monetization Platform Receives 2023 IoT Platforms Leadership Award from IoT Evolution

Revenera’s IoT Monetization Platform helps device companies that are moving to a software-based model: grow recurring revenue, activate features on demand, enable product insights (in both connected and disconnected environments), and minimize onsite service. 

Revenera’s platform, which has helped some clients more than double software revenues: 

Revenera Unveils New Monetization Analytics Dashboard: Transforming Data into Strategic Insights

“Understanding software consumption and customer adoption is critical to any successful monetization initiative. As a leader in the space, we enable software suppliers to innovate and make future packaging and pricing decisions based on data,” said Nicole Segerer, SVP and General Manager at Revenera. “The analytics capability offers easy-to-use insights for suppliers, and notifications and alerting based on monetization and usage events.” 

Flexera enters into definitive agreement to acquire Snow Software, broadening its portfolio for technology value optimization

Worldwide IT spending could reach $5.1 trillion in 2024, according to Gartner. It is estimated that up to 32% of this spend is wasted. Together, Flexera and Snow will provide deeper visibility and greater insights into the assets, technologies, terms of licensing and usage that comprise this spend and associated risks. Flexera and Snow will offer an expanded global footprint, a powerful strategic partner network and expanded IT Asset Management (ITAM), SaaS Management and FinOps capabilities.

Revenera report: Economic crisis fuels software piracy

“Profitability and stable growth are important traits for a well-run software business. On the run to SaaS and modern business models, many suppliers miss out on significant revenue opportunities from piracy, overuse, and misuse. Those that have and take action on insights into unlicensed use often have better growth rates to report, and more funds available to ignite innovation and new offerings,” said Nicole Segerer, SVP and General Manager at Revenera. “Many suppliers still aren’t even aware of how much revenue is lost.

Chicago Tribune Names Flexera and Revenera Winner of the Chicagoland Top Workplaces 2023 Award

“We have received this honor from our Chicago-area employees for twelve consecutive years, and it is something I don’t take for granted.” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera. “We continue to focus on listening to our employees and providing a culture in which they can thrive.” 

Ability to Gather Software Product Usage Data Improving, but Still Only 40 Percent Do it “Very Well”

“Software producers recognize the importance of usage data. Many, though, have room to grow as they work toward optimized software usage analytics practices that can aid everything from product roadmap decisions, product pricing, user interfaces, and more,” said Nicole Segerer, SVP and General Manager at Revenera. “The vast majority of survey respondents, 97 percent, either gather product usage data or plan to do so, yet almost a quarter of respondents collect telemetry data but let it go to waste.

Revenera Report Reveals Growing Reliance on Hybrid Software Deployment and Monetization Models

“Software suppliers aim to grow recurring revenue and streamline operations. To achieve this, they’re relying on software-as-a-service (SaaS), the most widely used deployment model today, and subscription/term and consumption monetization models,” said Nicole Segerer, SVP and General Manager at Revenera. “Software companies are looking to apply pricing and packaging changes faster, but we also see that time to market for their products often falls behind timing expectations.

Revenera Announces Conformance with OpenChain Security Assurance Program (ISO/IEC DIS 18974)

Hosted by the Linux Foundation, the OpenChain Project maintains the international standards OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 for open source license compliance and OpenChain ISO/IEC DIS 18974 for open source security assurance programs.

Employee Feedback Helps Flexera and Revenera Earn Great Place to Work Certification™

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention, and increased innovation.

Revenera Announces Availability of Vulnerability Disclosure Reports and Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange Reports to Help Optimize SBOMs

To optimize a software bill of materials (SBOM) and make it actionable, accurate reporting is required about the vulnerabilities (known and unknown) inside applications, as well as about the level of impact and exploitability of those vulnerable components. Because the security state of a given SBOM is always changing, it is imperative that a view into the current state is available for downstream partners and customers.

Revenera Recognized with “Enterprise IoT Platform Innovation Award” By IoT Breakthrough

Revenera's IoT Monetization Platform includes entitlement management, software licensing, and software delivery updates. It empowers customers to securely monetize software and the entire IoT stack—edge-to-cloud. It provides a central view of customers, software, and devices. It delivers automated use rights management, detailing customer entitlements and usage.

Revenera IoT Monetization Platform Wins 2023 IoT Breakthrough Award

Revenera's IoT Monetization Platform includes entitlement management, software licensing, and software delivery updates. It helps intelligent device companies move to a software-based model to grow recurring revenue, activate features on demand, enable product insights, and reduce the need for onsite service.

Revenera Research: More than 30% of Software Suppliers Don’t Understand Their Piracy Exposure

Revenera, producer of leading solutions that help technology companies build better products, accelerate time to value and monetize what matters, today released the Revenera Monetization Monitor: Software Piracy and Compliance 2022

Revenera Monetization Monitor Highlights that 80 Percent of Software Suppliers Will Collect Software Usage Data by 2024

“Software usage analytics trends are maturing. Vendors are looking to automate and optimize how they analyze usage, reducing the reliance on manual processes by nearly 10 percentage points since 2021,” said Nicole Segerer, SVP and General Manager at Revenera.