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After 5+ years of Flexera’s State of ITAM report, one thing’s clear: there’s no shortage of daily challenges faced by ITAM teams. Business units now buy applications directly. Teams experiment with unsanctioned AI tools. Free trials turn into paid subsc...

Flexera’s newly-released 2026 State of ITAM Report reveals a growing disconnect: Organizations are investing heavily in AI tools, yet many lack the visibility and governance needed to manage them effectively. This tension creates a new challenge, and IT leaders are asking themselves:

How do we govern AI usage without slowing innovation and limiting...

As organizations scale across SaaS, public cloud and AI, ITAM teams are being asked to do more than track assets: They’re expected to restore visibility, prove value and govern environments that are growing faster than policy can keep up.

Based on a global survey of 512 professionals, Flexera’s

Software audits aren’t new; nearly half (48%) of the organizations surveyed in Flexera’s 2026 State of ITAM Report said they had been audited in the last year. But they are becoming more frequent, more complex and more expensive. They’ve become a constant reality for IT leaders who are constantly asking themselves:

How do I reduce software audit r...

It is peak business hours and your Snowflake account is getting bombarded with heavy traffic. Queries are flying in left and right from BI dashboards, ETL pipelines, Snowpark workloads, scheduled jobs and a dozen other sources. Figuring out...