Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization

What do you like best about the product?

What I value most about Flexera is its ability to turn complex technology and licensing data into clear, actionable insights. Over the past seven years, I have seen organizations strengthen their ITAM maturity, reduce risk, and make smarter business decisions with a platform that continuously evolves alongside the market.

What do you dislike about the product?

What I find most challenging about Flexera is that some reporting and configuration processes can feel overly complex and require significant expertise to manage effectively. Simplifying the user experience, improving reporting flexibility, and providing clearer guidance for data troubleshooting would help customers achieve value faster.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Flexera One solves the challenge of connecting purchase orders, entitlements, and license consumption in one place, providing greater visibility and control across the software lifecycle. Its SaaS management capabilities are especially valuable, helping organizations identify usage, reduce waste, optimize subscriptions, and make better-informed decisions.

What do you like best about the product?

I appreciate Flexera One for its robust features that allow us to drill down on costs effectively, making cloud costs transparent which enables us to extend accountability to all our cloud teams. The exports are incredibly helpful, providing cloud cost and usage details across 10 dimensions. I particularly like how you can use the dashboard to pinpoint issues quickly, like when we identified inflated costs with Microsoft today with a color-coded view in the dashboard. The transition from CloudHealth to Flexera One was seamless, and once certain features were enabled, everything worked like a charm.

What do you dislike about the product?

Well, the Azure shared cost, unfortunately, due to the volume at our company, does not provide daily granularity, and has only a limited number of dimensions capable of being enabled. Consequently we have no view of RI/SP savings for Azure Shared Costs because Purchase Option is not one of the dimensions capable of being enabled. So, ideally, we'd want to have more dimensions enabled in shared cost and daily granularity.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Flexera One to track all our cloud usage and costs across platforms like Azure and AWS. We create personalized dashboards, budget alerts, and monitor coverage, utilization, and waste, gaining visibility and accountability for our teams.

What do you like best about the product?

Flexera One is a strong platform for improving cloud cost visibility and FinOps governance. The dashboards, table views, Billing Centers, and commitment visibility features make it easier to track spend, allocate costs, and identify optimization opportunities. It also provides useful recommendations and detailed exports that support better reporting and decision-making.

What do you dislike about the product?

One area for improvement is Kubernetes cost visibility, which currently requires integration with Ocean. Having those capabilities more directly integrated into Flexera One would make the experience more seamless.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Overall, Flexera One delivers strong value and helps us manage cloud spend more efficiently with comprehensive optimization recommendations, detailed data

What do you like best about the product?

Flexera's cloud cost optimization tool is heavily used for our monthly and quarterly billing reports. We use AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and tracking internal projects vs customer based projects is very important to our team. Flexera's ever expanding tabular view and cost explorer tools are very quick and easy to breakdown all the details we need to see.

What do you dislike about the product?

There's is some transitioning over from the previous tool we used called Cloudcheckr. There hasn't been any surprises but like anything in life there are times when I'd prefer for certain cloud inventory features to be integrated sooner.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pretty straight forward here. First is cloud cost tracking at it's core. Next is cloud cost optimization and making sure we don't have unused resources running taking up valuable cloud spend. Third is developing an easy way to export cloud cost daughter and have it organized in the exact way we wanted to deliver it to PM's, managers, execs, etc.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy to operate and manage software licenses and compliance reporting, with strong reporting capabilities, especially for Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. It provides various integration options to improve overall coverage. The tool is capable of handling large sets of inventory data and has an enhanced application library. The Flexera support desk is always responsive and helps resolve queries quickly. They also continue introducing new AI capabilities to onboard software purchases and more.

What do you dislike about the product?

I haven’t encountered any such instance so far, but I would definitely like to see improvements in application bundling. That would help us manage publisher compliance more effectively.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The application recognition and inventory discovery capabilities across the organization help identify unauthorized or unapproved applications effectively. Additionally, application usage insights enable cost optimization by highlighting underutilized or unused licenses, helping reduce unnecessary software spend. The platform also provides a centralized view of all purchased applications and licenses through dedicated UI tabs, making navigation intuitive and allowing users to quickly access the information they need.