Flexera is an American computer software company based in
Itasca, Illinois
Itasca is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 9,543. Located approximately 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, Itasca is close to O'Hare International Airport, major expressways and ra ...
.
History
On 1 April 2008, Macrovision sold its software division to the
Thoma Bravo
Thoma Bravo, LP, is an American private equity and growth capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Miami. It is known for being particularly active in acquiring software companies and has over $114 billion in assets under manage ...
investment fund, which became Acresso Software. Macrovision subsequently changed its name to
Rovi Corporation
TiVo Corporation, formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation, was an American technology company. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company is primarily involved in licensing its intellectual property ...
.
In October 2009, Acresso Software, Inc. became Flexera Software after a clash with a company of similar name.
Flexera acquired Australian based ManageSoft in 2010. Managesoft was OSA (Open Software Associates), which itself came out of
HP's Australian Software Organisation.
On July 19, 2011, Thoma Bravo sold a majority stake in Flexera Software LLC to Teachers' Private Capital, the private investment department of the
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (french: Régime de retraite des enseignantes et des enseignants de l'Ontario) is an independent organization responsible for administering defined-benefit pensions for school teachers of the Canadian pr ...
. The transaction was finalized on October 3, 2011.
On September 26, 2018, Flexera acquired
RightScale
RightScale was a company that sold software as a service for cloud computing management for multiple providers. The company was based in Santa Barbara, California. It was acquired by Flexera Software in 2018.
History
Thorsten von Eicken, a for ...
for an undisclosed amount.
On June 5, 2019, Flexera acquired Asheville, NC based RISC Networks for an undisclosed amount.
On February 5, 2020, Flexera acquired software usage analytics Company
Revulytics. In August 2020, for the third straight year, Flexera has been ranked in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 's Leaders quadrant for Software Asset Management Tools (July 2020).
See also
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FlexNet Publisher
FlexNet Publisher (formerly known as FLEXlm) is a software license manager from Flexera Software which implements license management and is intended to be used in corporate environments to provide floating licenses to multiple end users of comp ...
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InstallShield
InstallShield is a proprietary software tool for creating installers or software packages. InstallShield is primarily used for installing software for Microsoft Windows desktop and server platforms, though it can also be used to manage software a ...
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