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Introducing Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence: compliance without the complexity. July 17, 2026 Compliance in IT is no longer a periodic checkbox, it's a continuous discipline. Whether your organization navigates DORA in Europe, NYDFS and FFIEC in the U.S. or APRA in Australia, regulators now expect ongoing proof of lifecycle governance, risk reduction and audit readiness. Not only that, but thorough internal compliance initiatives are vital to building reliable responses to external pressure. Yet only 36% of IT leaders report having complete visibility into their technology estate (Flexera 2026 State of ITAM). Most organizations still rely on manual processes to close that gap; evidence lives in spreadsheets and dashboards are built from scratch in Power BI. Compliance status is point-in-time at best. The result is fragmented reporting that increases risk, slows audit responses and makes it nearly impossible to demonstrate progress the way regulators expect. Today Flexera is changing that with Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence, a new add-on module for Flexera One IT Visibility that turns trusted IT intelligence from Technopedia into measurable compliance outcomes. It enables regulated organizations and internal compliance teams to track progress, prove alignment and reduce risk from a single platform. Why Flexera built it. The idea didn't start in a product lab, it started with customers. Flexera conducted in-depth interviews with mid-to-large financial services and regulated enterprises including institutions across the U.S., EMEA, Australia and Canada. The feedback was consistent and clear. Customers told Flexera that dashboards alone aren't enough because many already build dashboards using their own APIs and tools. They wanted standards mapped to controls with continuous automated checks rather than point-in-time snapshots. They expected actionability through remediation planning and workflow integrations. And they wanted a solution that complements their existing GRC investments rather than replacing them. Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence was built to answer all of that. What makes Compliance Standards Intelligence different. Traditional IT Visibility starts with your inventory and works outward: telemetry, data, dashboards. Compliance Standards Intelligence flips that model. It starts from regulatory intent and works inward, asking "What do regulators expect? What internal standards do I need to meet?" before asking "What does my estate look like?" Control-to-check mapping is the core differentiator. Each regulatory control is mapped to automated checks that run against your inventory. For example, a control that states "Unsupported software must be remediated" is tied to a check that detects end-of-life and end-of-support versions across your environment. This moves your organization from passive reporting to evidence-based validation. Built-in tolerance and policy logic lets you define what "compliant" means for your organization. Set tolerance levels and custom policies so you can answer "Is this compliant?" rather than settling for "Is this risky?" Traceable evidence generation produces a clear chain from control to check to result over time, backed by time-series data and policy evaluation. This bridges the gap between inventory visibility and audit-ready proof. What you get delivered. Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence delivers a unified compliance experience powered by Technopedia, the industry's most comprehensive technology intelligence dataset. Here's what that means in practice. One unified view: manage frameworks like DORA, NYDFS, APRA and FFIEC from a single compliance space. See current conformity scores, lifecycle status distribution and trend data so you know exactly where you stand and where exposure is building. Continuous tracking: monitor risk reduction and lifecycle progress over time with both internal and external compliance as a system of record. Surface current posture alongside a three-year forecast and one-year historical view so you can demonstrate progress to regulators, infrastructure managers and service owners. Auditor-ready evidence: drill down from high-level conformity views to asset-level detail with built-in tracking for exceptions, ownership and decision-making. Explain your progress with authority when auditors come calling. Remediation planning: go beyond insight to action with year-over-year remediation plans for end-of-life and end-of-support assets, including three-year projections based on your remediation plan. From any host, teams can create tickets, prioritize remediation efforts and trigger automation workflows with full auditability and traceability. Built on a trusted data foundation. What separates Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence from competitors that rely on outdated CMDB data or require extensive customization is the data underneath it. Flexera delivers normalized, enriched inventory with lifecycle, vulnerability and dependency context powered by Technopedia, the world's largest and most reliable technology data-catalog. That means the compliance checks running against your environment are grounded in accurate, continuously updated intelligence rather than stale snapshots from disconnected tools. The result is compliance that is built in, not bolted on. Proven Flexera impact across regulated organizations: | Metric | Impact | | Avg. reduction in time spent researching and validating data | 60% | | Reduction in effort managing external audits | 80% | | Reduction in technical debt for compliance reporting | 30% | Who Compliance Standards Intelligence is for. Compliance Standards Intelligence is designed for financial services organizations and other heavily regulated industries that need to demonstrate alignment to standards like DORA, NYDFS, FFIEC and APRA. It serves compliance officers, infrastructure managers, service owners and IT leaders who need a single, executive-ready view of their IT compliance posture without building it from scratch. It complements your existing GRC tools by surfacing the signals and evidence they need. Flexera is not replacing your GRC. It's feeding it with trusted, validated intelligence. What's ahead. This initial release focuses on automated checks for financial regulatory standards with lifecycle, cloud and vulnerability-related controls. Looking ahead, the upcoming 2026 roadmap includes AI-powered forecasting for end-of-life and end-of-support exposure, prioritized actionable insights, notification and workflow automation through intelligent automation and expanded coverage across ITAM and SaaS metrics. Get started. Flexera One Compliance Standards Intelligence is available now in early access for Flexera One IT Visibility. If your organization is ready to move from reactive audit preparation to continuous risk compliance governance, contact Flexera to learn more.

Mike Jerich named flexera CEO as company enters new stage of ai-driven growth. Leadership transition and AI Cost Management innovation strengthen Flexera's continued momentum in 2026. July 16, 2026 09:30 ET | Source: Flexera ITASCA, Ill., July 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Flexera, a global leader in technology spend and risk intelligence, today announced that Mike Jerich, currently President of Flexera, has been named President and CEO as part of a planned leadership succession. Jerich succeeds Jim Ryan, who has transitioned to Vice Chairman of Flexera's Board of Directors and will continue supporting the company's long-term strategy and growth. Jerich brings over 25 years of experience in the enterprise technology sector, previously acting as CEO for HungerRush and holding senior leadership positions at ServiceMax (now PTC), FinancialForce, IPC Systems, IntelePeer and Level 3 Communications. Since joining Flexera as President in May 2025, Jerich has helped advance Flexera's platform strategy, expand its partner ecosystem, and strengthen its market position. "Flexera enters the second half of the year with strong momentum and a sharp focus on helping customers control technology spend and risk at scale," said Jerich, President and CEO, Flexera. "With a successful leadership transition, new AI Cost Management capabilities and trusted data across all technology categories, we're well positioned to help organizations reduce waste, improve governance and make confident decisions about where to invest next." "Leading Flexera has been one of the greatest privileges of my career," said Ryan, Vice Chairman of Flexera's Board of Directors and former President and CEO. "Working closely with Mike as President, I have seen firsthand his ability to lead the business and execute our vision. Flexera has built strong momentum and is well positioned for its next stage of growth and innovation under Mike's leadership." The announcement follows the recent launch of a comprehensive set of AI Cost Management capabilities. Recent technology news has been dominated by growing concerns that organizations are losing control of AI spend, with soaring model and coding costs, exhausted budgets, and AI-driven consumption continuing to rise. To address this challenge, Flexera expanded the Flexera One platform to deliver visibility, governance, and optimization of AI spend across the full AI technology stack. The new capabilities extend Flexera's unified approach to technology management to deliver one of the most complete AI cost management platforms spanning apps, agents, models, platforms, compute, and data in the cloud. Other recent milestones underscoring Flexera's momentum include: * Expanding FinOps capabilities through the acquisitions of ProsperOps and Chaos Genius. These two strategic acquisitions extend Flexera's capabilities across automated cost reporting and allocation, workload optimization, and rate optimization. * Recognition as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for SaaS Management Platforms. The company was named a Leader in this category for the second consecutive year, which Flexera believes reflects continued strength in SaaS Management, AI-driven cost management, and integrated FinOps intelligence. * Releasing its benchmark reports on the State of the Cloud and State of ITAM. The reports found an increase in wasted technology spend across categories, with 29% of respondents reporting an increase in wasted cloud spend and 59% saying wasted AI spend has increased. Flexera enters the second half of the year focused on helping organizations gain greater visibility and control across technology spend and the rapidly growing challenges of AI governance, optimization, and cost management. Follow Flexera About Flexera Flexera helps organizations understand and maximize the value of their technology, including the rising costs and risks introduced by AI, saving billions of dollars in wasted spend. Our Flexera One platform connects the dots between what technology you have, how it is used, what it costs, and where it creates risk, helping teams take control of the increasingly complex IT estate across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises. We are leading the way to unify IT Asset Management, FinOps, and SaaS Management with high-fidelity data from Technopedia, our proprietary reference library of technology asset data, and intelligent automation fueled by AI. That's why thousands of global organizations rely on the Flexera One platform and Technopedia. Learn more at flexera.com. 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