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The inaugural IoT Breakthrough awards program recognizes IoT innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories - including Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, IoT Security, Wearables, Industrial IoT, Machine-to-Machine and Enterprise IoT. According to Gartner, by 2020 there will be approximately 20.8 billion IoT devices in circulation.

In order to deliver a great customer experience, Ciena is implementing a common licensing and entitlement management model and platform across all of their offerings, including standalone software, embedded software on devices as well as management and planning tools.

Many software vendors have had to rely on manual, and often disjointed, processes when delivering software upgrades which causes revenue leakage (when customers receive upgrades to which they are not entitled because they are out of maintenance or no longer on a subscription), an administrative overhead nightmare and often a poor end-user experience. FlexNet Operations 2016 puts an end to significant revenue losses from upgrades, which can reach up to 30 percent for some vendors.

Flexera Software employees were asked to complete a confidential survey on a variety of workplace satisfaction issues, and those results were benchmarked against the responses of the rest of the participating companies.  Several aspects of workplace culture were measured – including Alignment, Execution and Connection.

Flexera’s business sits at the nexus between the world’s software producers and buyers – repairing the broken software supply chain, which is the most dysfunctional supply chain in all of business today. That dysfunction manifests as risk and cost – to both the producers of software and the enterprises that buy software – as they solve the complex, time consuming, and expensive problems of ensuring licensing compliance and security from vulnerabilities.

“Microsoft’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update includes the Desktop Bridge, which enables existing desktop apps and games to be converted to use the modern Windows app packaging format.  These converted apps offer cleaner installs, uninstalls and updates, and can be enhanced with Universal Windows Platform capabilities such as Live Tiles, Cortana and push notifications,” said Kevin Gallo, Corporate Vice President for the Windows developer platform at Microsoft.  “We are thrilled that developers can now use InstallShield 2016 to distribute their existing apps and games through the Wind

Flexera Software's solutions are sold, supported, serviced and enhanced by a global network of channel, consulting/service and technology partners.

Thinkbox's Deadline is the foundation on which an organization's hardware and software tools work together. Compatible across Windows, Linux and Mac OSX render farms, the latest version of Deadline adds usage-based licensing on top of its perpetual license model for cloud-based and on-premise resources - resulting in dramatically new and more flexible ways to work, enabling more simulations and faster iteration.

"Building a successful tech company and creating a great corporate culture go hand in hand. You can't do one without the other," said Mark Bishof, President and Chief Executive Officer of Flexera Software. "We've created a tremendous global brand with more than 750 employees that continues to grow year over year, generate great ROI for our customers and incredible career opportunities for the professionals we employ. We are extremely gratified once again to receive validation that Flexera Software remains one of the best places to work in Chicago."

Mr. Bishof has served as President and CEO of Flexera Software since its inception in April, 2008, when it spun out from Macrovision. Mr. Bishof has been a driving force behind the company's strategic direction and consistently strong operational performance. He has led the Flexera Software on a steady and consistent growth path, and hands over the reins as the company continues to expand its leadership position in each of the markets in which it competes. Mr. Bishof will assist in a smooth transition through the remainder of the year.

Located in Box Hill Victoria, the new office expands the company's local footprint from 780 square meters to 2000 square meters, providing room to grow as the company continues its multi-year expansion plan in the APAC region. The office also marks an increased investment in Melbourne as a critical part of Flexera Software's global Software License Optimization research and development.

Growing Flexera Software's local footprint

"Software vendors want to lead their markets by supporting new technologies like Docker, but they realize that many customers still require traditional installers. So, they want to support both without duplicating effort for installation development," said Maureen Polte, Vice President of Product Management at Flexera Software. "InstallAnywhere 2015 is the first installation development solution that supports Docker. And it allows application producers to support both traditional multiplatform installations and Docker images from the same project."

Azure Marketplace is an online applications and services marketplace that enables application producers to offer their solutions to Azure customers around the world. Through collaboration with Microsoft, Flexera Software's Software Monetization solution, FlexNet Licensing, enables application producers to easily migrate their enterprise applications to Microsoft Azure while using flexible licensing and entitlement management capabilities.

"Most application producers don't get how critical licensing and entitlement management is for revenue generation - we weren't going to make that mistake. If you do it right, you can plan for the future - ensuring the flexibility, change and scale that would otherwise be a disruption for the business and potentially anger users," said Josh Hartung, CEO at Harbrick.

Application producers need to have confidence that their software is compatible with and will install properly on Windows 10, the much-anticipated upgrade of Microsoft's operating system. InstallShield 2015 is Windows 10-ready, enabling producers to confidently build installations that support Windows 10 as well as existing versions of the operating system including Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

"We want to ensure we're able to meet and exceed customer requirements today and in the future - which means offering licensing capabilities across myriad environments, such as on-premises or in virtualized and cloud environments. It also means we must offer flexibility so that our customers can purchase our products using licensing models that align to their business need, such as perpetual, subscription or pay-per-use models," says Oliver Rady, Director Business Development, Mensch und Maschine.

"Schneider Electric utilizes business applications heavily in our software and cloud augmented products, intelligent hardware systems and solutions," said Alfons Marquez, Vice President Digital & Software Domain at Schneider Electric. "We are pleased to partner with Flexera Software and look forward to leveraging their considerable expertise in Software Monetization.

The report indicates that reality is catching up to the hype. Device manufacturers are significantly transforming their product and services lines through software-driven intelligent devices, Internet of Things devices and software licensing/entitlement management capabilities that enable monetization of products and services. Among the report's findings:

According to a recent BSA Global Software Survey, 43 percent of the software installed on PCs around the world, totaling more than $62 billion in value, was not properly licensed. "The amount of revenue illegally being siphoned away from producers due to unauthorized software use is staggering," said Mathieu Baissac, Vice President of Product Management at Flexera Software.

"As producers weigh their cloud strategies, they must select a pathway that gives them ultimate flexibility to monetize their applications in hosted environments and at the same time protect their intellectual property," said Mark Bishof, President and CEO of Flexera Software. "Flexera Software has given producers the tools they need to leverage Azure to quickly address shifting preferences for cloud-based solutions, open up new revenue streams, and ensure they're getting compensated for their software.