--- title: FlexNet Manager Reviews meta\_title: 'FlexNet Manager Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 77 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how FlexNet Manager works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 77 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # FlexNet Manager Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by FlexNet Manager but has limited features. Are you part of the FlexNet Manager team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Software is one of the major items on any IT expense budget. Industry analysts estimate software license and maintenance fees represent 20 to 35% of total enterprise IT spend. The approach for managing a software asset portfolio is typically inefficient, relying on a local approach instead of a global one, and frequently involves spreadsheets or other ad hoc methods. The lack of efficient software asset management processes exposes enterprises to software audit liabilities and overspending on licenses and maintenance. Flexera FlexNet Manager software and IT asset management solutions manage and optimize enterprise software regardless of location, from the desktop to the data center to the cloud. We'll give your organization a growth path and roadmap for success. Manage and reduce spend on applications from Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, Symantec and SAP. Flexnet Manager Suite for Clients: Optimize your software licenses across desktops, laptops, and other client devices. FlexNet Manager for Clients automatically applies product use rights acquired through software license agreements from desktop vendors such as Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec. Product use rights can dramatically affect the number of licenses consumed by an organization, and must therefore be considered to minimize costs and ensure license compliance. Flexnet Manager Suite for Data Centers: It's difficult to know what’s happening across your data centers–until now. No matter what your challenges, FlexNet Manager for Data Centers can help you get control. You get visibility and insight for all your assets with our powerful, easy-to-use, role-based Data Analytics Dashboards. Flexnet Manager Suite for SAP Applications: Managing SAP® licenses can require significant time and effort. It's difficult to get an accurate handle on license requirements and position. And not knowing what applications are indirectly accessing SAP data can cost you big time. We’ll help you navigate SAP for business success. Flexnet Manager Suite for Engineering Apps: Concurrent licenses can be challenging to manage. But managing them effectively is essential for engineering and design applications. License denials can lead to project delays, lost revenue and decreased customer satisfaction. Lack of visibility can cause still more problems. FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications delivers a comprehensive solution. * * * Seller [Flexera](https://www.g2.com/sellers/flexera) Discussions [FlexNet Manager Community](https://www.g2.com/products/flexnet-manager/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Alexis Chiagouris Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 20 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/flexnet-manager/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![ServiceNow Software Asset Management](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ServiceNow Software Asset Management") ServiceNow Software Asset Management 4.4/5(59) ](https://www.g2.com/products/servicenow-software-asset-management/reviews) [ ![BetterCloud](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "BetterCloud") BetterCloud 4.4/5(486) ](https://www.g2.com/products/bettercloud/reviews) [ ![Torii](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Torii") Torii 4.5/5(324) ](https://www.g2.com/products/torii/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/flexnet-manager/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 77 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## FlexNet Manager Integrations (6) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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Like other similar programs, the longer FlexNet is in use and properly maintained, the more benefits you can obtain from it. FlexNet is well established and has a proven track record of actually working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager? Older versions of it are very dated and a little bit clunky. Newer versions have improved, but some of the same problems persist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? The tool is used to track the various data sets and software & hardware assets across a global enterprise. Various team members use the tool for different tasks, and other teams feed information on newer installs etc which is added to the tool regularly. With everything processed through a refined and mature process, we can accurately picture what is currently installed and in use on the estate globally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Civil Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Civil Engineering") AC Verified User in Civil Engineering Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/24/2020 "FlexNet Manager is helpful, but in parts very cumbersome." 3/5 What do you like best about FlexNet Manager? The coloured "License Summary", which shows the deltas between "bought" and "used". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager? Two things. It is a "must" to have the possibility to split a higher number of bought licenses between different cost centers. To input one purchase detail several times to split a buying between different cost centers is a no-go! Second point, the upload functionality of "Documents" is not usable. We use Microsoft Teams ... and links from documents stored in Teams are too long for the input-field in FNMS. Also a movement from the files withing Teams/SharePoint will result in a loss of all linked relationships in FNM. An upload into the cloud is not practable beause of performance reasons by a growing database. The only possibilty for us is using "Physical location" which points to the one-drive cloud location of the document. But this will also result in a loss of the pointer, when there files will be moved. Maybe you think about an solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FlexNet Manager: Make your naming conventions before starting to feed the database and also think about your categories and cost center concept if it will be stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? The invitiation of Flexera is brand new. Our expectiations are to find forbidden installations and licencing problems. Also we hope to reduce software inventory and the amount of licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign MR Maciej R. Senior IT Infrastructure Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/6/2019 "I would like to recommend FlexNet Manager for other if some improvements will be implemented" 3/5 What do you like best about FlexNet Manager? Well, there's a lot of things which Flexera does well. Totally customizable inventory, we can import data from everything Flexera's team initiative to create Community - it was helpful a few times when docs were unsuitable. I can see also a lot of engagement from your side to improve your product - i.e. when you asked customers about new features ideas. That is great and I encourage your activity in this area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager? Import procedures for Import Manager needs to be corrected. Queries are not optimized well, it needs to be improved definitely. Especially when it comes to larger amount of data. For example: There is a lot of Software File Evidence, about 67 million records and DeleteFromImportedInstalledFileEvidence procedure takes too long time to complete - even after setting timeout to 10 hours. The same relates to Software Raw Software Occurrences. It can extend import time from 3 hours to 10. I wonder about some kind of troubleshoot guide and some kind of best practice - unfortunately in some cases System Reference and Community is not enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FlexNet Manager: If you're not adapted to work with Windows Server and T-SQL, FlexNet Manager might be troublesome to administering in the beginning. But on the other hand, Flexera team does everything to improve this software. Working with FlexNet Manager in a daily basis is quite simple. The advantage over 3rd party software for Software Asset Management is it's elasticity. You can import and adapt data from every data sources. SQL databases, another data systems using REST middleware, cloud services, etc. It's very expandable and calculates license usage in a correct way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? - It helps Software License Management team in their daily basis work. - It's a very good inventory database for our servers. - The most important thing - crucial cost savings on licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller DJ Dnyaneshwar J. Chief Product owner EDA Licensing Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/6/2019 "Reliability and performance needs to be addressed for FNMEA " 3/5 What do you like best about FlexNet Manager? Though it compiles a very good data on the licensing activities within EDA environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager? Performance and reliability is always been a area of the improvement . Several time it has been noticed that support is not up to the exceptions. Lack in big data analysis which is must in the EDA industries as the data being used here is directly proportional to the money as company spent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FlexNet Manager: May be improvement on the support structure please Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? the base raw data being a strong about the eda licensing activities, we get a complete insight on several eda vendor's usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller US Umesh S. Engineering Tools support Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/20/2019 "FenNet manager admin at Motorola Solutions Inc." 3/5 What do you like best about FlexNet Manager? It takes track of each license, each feature and each checkout of licenses also who checked out them etc. Detail data it captures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager? Sometimes it gets hang and agents need to restart etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering FlexNet Manager: Please use FlexNet manager for your licenses usage and data analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? Data analytics, we analyse the usage of particular license and its feature so that we can plan it better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Oil & Energy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Oil & Energy") AO Verified User in Oil & Energy Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/6/2019 "50 50" 3/5 What do you like best about FlexNet Manager? I like that it has main features included, such as device inventory, license inventory and management dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager? ARL updates is lacking There's no major minor version for software like Java There's no easy way to bulk search via device to display software inventory Reconciliation is a major setback. It's still not the single source of truth from software inventory point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? For the most part, it's the reconciliation of license reclamation status, last used date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/7/2019 "Review" 3/5 What do you like best about FlexNet Manager? Software asset management capabilities, user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager? Amount of time to load/filter reports, no API to export data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? License optimization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Insurance](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Insurance") AI Verified User in Insurance Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/6/2019 "Review" 3/5 What do you like best about FlexNet Manager? Vast variety of views/reports, lots of available fields for data insight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager? Slow load times for reports, lack of transparency into back-end configuration and processes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? Software asset management, license optimization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Kyle P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kyle P.") KP Kyle P. Senior IT Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/17/2018 "Secunia" 3/5 What do you like best about FlexNet Manager? Ease to use and navigation. The dashboard provides substantial reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FlexNet Manager? It’s shows the information you want it to see It can hide things and not always accurate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FlexNet Manager solving and how is that benefiting you? Remediation and system analysis it is very good for identifying risks and patches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about FlexNet Manager? 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