The biggest IT compliance risks for 2027
Ask almost any IT leader how they feel about compliance and you will hear a familiar sigh: it is an exhausting, endless cycle of audit prep, messy spreadsheets and scrambling to show that corporate...
View ArticleThe complete cloud footprint: Why cloud emissions reports don’t tell the...
Organizations measuring their cloud footprint today are working from half the picture and they don’t know it. I saw this firsthand in a recent conversation with a large European organization about...
View ArticleAI governance isn’t slowing innovation. It’s what makes scale possible
Key findings AI governance is becoming an enabler, not an obstacle. Organizations are increasingly using governance frameworks to create the visibility, accountability and confidence needed to scale...
View ArticleTokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing: What every IT and finance leader needs to know...
Over the last two years, the enterprise playbook for AI adoption was simple: use more of it. More tokens, more seats and more agentic workflows, on the belief that heavier usage would lead to faster...
View ArticleAI cost management: The complete guide for enterprise IT
AI cost management is the practice of tracking, allocating, optimizing and governing every dollar an organization spends on AI. That spend hides in more places than most teams expect. Some of it sits...
View ArticleWhat’s new at Flexera: September 2026
Track carbon, water, and electricity across AI models, workloads and tokens The new AI Sustainability experience in the Cloud Sustainability dashboard reveals the financial and environmental impact of...
View ArticleHow enterprises can govern employee use of AI tools and SaaS apps
Your next AI governance problem may already be open in someone’s browser. Maybe your colleague pasted a portion of a client brief into ChatGPT or Claude to quickly generate a proposal. Maybe someone...
View ArticleFinOps for AI: a practical guide to managing AI cloud costs
AI has crossed the threshold from speculative R&D to the operational engine of the modern enterprise. Engineering teams deploy autonomous agents to handle complex customer workflows; product...
View ArticleAI cost management: How to build a business case for executives
Stop guessing. Start governing. Your CFO doesn’t want a demo, they want a defensible business case. Here’s the 7-step checklist that builds one. Define your addressable AI spend: Inventory AI costs...
View ArticleThe AI cost reckoning: Why token bills are becoming the new cloud bill
Key findings AI’s biggest challenge is shifting from adoption to accountability as costs spread across tokens, cloud, SaaS and software Most organizations lack the visibility needed to effectively...
View ArticleWhat impact does AI have on cloud and data cloud spend?
Ask your FinOps team or anyone in finance what has hit the budget hardest this year and the answer is likely to be the same: AI. AI’s impact on cloud spend and data cloud spend isn’t a five-year-out...
View ArticleAnthropic Mythos and AdminStudio: Accelerating the journey from vulnerability...
AI has changed the vulnerability landscape Anthropic’s Project Glasswing demonstrates how AI can help defenders identify software vulnerabilities faster and at a scale that would be difficult to...
View ArticleWhy AI spending is the fastest-growing part of IT budgets
Key AI spending statistics (2026): Only 31% of organizations have accurate visibility into their AI software spend, and 59% say wasted AI spend increased over the past year (Flexera, 2026 State of...
View ArticleEvolving our approach to corporate social responsibility
With Give Back as one of our core values, our corporate social responsibility strategy is key to our culture. At Flexera, we’ve been taking a close look at how our CSR efforts can evolve to meet...
View ArticleCloud cost management isn’t just about cutting waste: What 5 years of...
Key takeaways Cloud spending has skyrocketed over the past five years, with 76% of large enterprises spend more than $5 million monthly on the cloud. This makes financial accountability and governance...
View ArticleShadow AI 101: What it is and how to detect and govern it in 2026
Somewhere in your company right now, someone is pasting sensitive data into a consumer AI chatbot. Or using an external AI tool or AI model without approval. Or wiring an AI agent into internal...
View ArticleAdminStudio recognized again as a ComponentSource Top 50 Publisher and Top...
We are proud to announce that AdminStudio has once again been recognized by ComponentSource as a Top 50 Publisher for 2026 and Top 100 Product for 2026. This achievement reflects our commitment to...
View Article5 AI governance lessons public sector leaders can learn from enterprises
Key takeaways AI adoption is accelerating across public and private sector organizations, but public sector leaders face a different bar: governance, transparency, risk management and accountability...
View ArticleBest practices for making ServiceNow execution-ready for AI and automation
Takeaways Automation capability isn’t the same as execution-readiness. ServiceNow can orchestrate action at scale, that’s its core function. Safe execution depends on trusted data, embedded controls,...
View ArticleBest practices for building trusted data foundations: Flexera webinar recap
As organizations scale cloud, SaaS, and AI initiatives, platforms like ServiceNow have become the operational backbone of IT. From change management to service delivery, the CMDB is expected to power...
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