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Device42 vs Flexera One comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.6
Device42 enhances ROI by streamlining IT asset management, application mapping, and offering insightful reports for cost-effective operations.
Sentiment score
6.2
Flexera One reduces software expenses, enhances decision-making, optimizes licenses, and improves governance, achieving significant cost and time savings.
The TCO calculations based on five years and three years have yielded a remarkable ROI compared to on-premise workload, validating the business case submission to the customer.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
I can confidently say at least 30% is the savings which we have seen.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Device42 is a fully-featured tool that includes everything we need with powerful auto-discovery and intelligent application dependency mapping.
Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo
Thirty percent over six months is a pretty good return on investment.
Technical Admin at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I have seen a return on investment with Flexera One, as we need fewer employees.
Item Analyst at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.1
Device42's customer service is praised for prompt, knowledgeable support, despite occasional delays, frequently earning high satisfaction ratings.
Sentiment score
6.3
Flexera One's customer service is mostly praised for responsiveness and proactivity, with occasional delays and varying representative expertise.
Customer support for Device42 is fantastic.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Our internal teams have also leveraged the platform which is available for the customers and the partners to onboard them, have a bit of training on the tool and then ask any specific questions to either the TAM or the customer support team.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
When it comes to resolving technical issues, the support team is responsive and always available to help.
Cloud Presales Engineer at Activedge Technologies Ltd.
I will give it a 10 for the technical support of Flexera One on a scale from one to ten.
Software Asset Management Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
They were prompt in getting back to us.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I always get very positive marks from a customer support perspective regarding Flexera One, with no issues.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Device42 effectively scales for organizations, enhancing expansion with API integration and Remote Collectors, despite horizontal scaling limitations.
Sentiment score
7.6
Flexera One is highly rated for scalability and adaptability in enterprise environments, with effective support and deployment teams.
It is very much scalable and allows you to design your discovery solution without facing any challenge.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Device42's scalability works well for me; if I want to add more resources, such as a Remote Collector for a new site, I can easily connect it to the main appliance.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is good and with the increase in the size of the environment, it has definitely grown and changed over the last couple of years.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Flexera One operates as a SaaS platform across large global enterprises with multiple business units, regions, and vendors.
Software Asset Management Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I can assign a lot of user roles and send it out to many different places.
Technical Admin at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Device42 proves reliable with minimal downtime, easy integration, manageable resources, quick issue resolution, and high user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
8.4
Flexera One is stable with high ratings, but faces data reporting issues, quickly addressed to maintain trust.
Device42 is stable and has been reliable for my organization.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Device42 has been pretty stable.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Stability for Device42, in terms of reliability, is generally acceptable.
Solutions Architect at KAF Group
We can see all inventory, all the applications, and how many installations we have.
Software Asset Management Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The stability of the cloud version, which is what I'm currently using, is almost always reliable.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Flexera One is stable and runs reliably, but I think sometimes when it is not reporting properly, that can become an issue for customer data that is not being processed properly.
Item Analyst at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Device42 users seek enhanced interface, integration, pricing, with improved widgets, graphics, navigation, automation, and support efficiency.
Flexera One needs better asset discovery, reporting tools, ITSM integration, user interface, and regular updates for overall enhancement.
Device42 could benefit from improvements, specifically regarding the deployment of the software, which sometimes can be hectic and become time-consuming.
Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo
I foresee areas of improvement for the agent-less solution, which could be very useful for those organizations that might not allow configuring an agent in their source machines for workload discovery.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
From an ITSM and ticketing perspective, I would say if there were integrations available, that would have really been better because a lot of times what we end up seeing or leveraging is ServiceNow because they have that native or out of the box capability, and even Freshservice has that capability out of the box.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
For one of my customers, the monitoring aspect has been tricky due to the need for live database information, which could be enhanced using AI technology.
Consultant at KPMG
I would suggest stopping accepting default tool mappings, actively building custom normalization rules, and having a common convention for naming those tools.
Technical Admin at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
One feature I would like to see in the tool is the ability to handle everything in one place.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Device42 offers cost-effective pricing for managing 1,000-2,000 devices, though addon costs and competition may affect perceptions.
Flexera One offers competitive pricing and valuable features, though complex enterprise packages and regional costs may vary.
Compared to other competitors, it does not cost much, and I would recommend it from a cost perspective.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
For example, I felt the BMC Discovery pricing was quite high.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable.
Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo
They've restructured how it's licensed, making it more fair.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was very fair for the value that was received.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is good overall, but the costs are relatively high.
Enterprise Cloud Cost Over And Visibility Parts at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Device42 excels in asset discovery, dependency mapping, and integrated IT management, enhancing security, cloud readiness, and efficiency.
Flexera One offers robust license management, analytics, and integration, enhancing compliance, navigation, and cost reduction for cloud and IT systems.
Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
We have leveraged that to discover IT assets such as physical servers, VMs, network devices, containers, storage devices, the applications, cloud resources and their relationships or their dependencies with each other and to the outside.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Device42 has positively impacted our organization by helping us become one of the best companies for asset management and inventory for the enterprise businesses we work with.
Cloud Presales Engineer at Activedge Technologies Ltd.
Sometimes I see cost savings in excess of 40 to 60 percent, with resources also in the same percentage area, depending on what the use case is and how much work and preparation was put into actually designing it appropriately for the use of the tool.
We use the dashboard to quickly identify unused licenses and usage trends, which help us reclaim licenses and reduce costs.
Enterprise Cloud Cost Over And Visibility Parts at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The documentation is very helpful, and the single pane of glass feature is invaluable because everything is accessible from one place.
Technical Admin at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Device42
Ranking in IT Asset Management
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management Databases (2nd), IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools (3rd), Data Center Infrastructure Management (1st)
Flexera One
Ranking in IT Asset Management
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
SaaS Management Platforms (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the IT Asset Management category, the mindshare of Device42 is 4.1%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Flexera One is 4.1%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Asset Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Device424.1%
Flexera One4.1%
Other91.8%
IT Asset Management
 

Featured Reviews

Manmohan Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Granular discovery has ensured confident workload migration and optimized cloud move group planning
Device42 offers the best features for workload assessment, particularly useful for cloud-to-cloud workload or on-premise data center workload, especially when planning for workload migration to the public cloud. For application and infrastructure discovery, Device42 has enabled me to know the number of machines running in the on-premise environment and has managed to capture complete utilization metrics or trends of their utilization. This has benefited me in right-sizing systems for my public cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) planning, providing me granularity to right-size these systems while planning a migration to the public cloud. Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud. Device42 has improved my migration projects by providing granularity around system dependencies that gave me confidence knowing which systems communicate with each other parked in a particular move group. My move group planning became so robust that I am not leaving any system behind in the on-premise data center from my planning, which saves a lot of time and effort, leading to cost optimization—a value addition.
reviewer2836311 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Asset Management Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Clear license visibility has reduced waste and guides current software spending decisions
We often communicate with the technical support of Flexera One, and they are providing a good service to us. We are raising cases for the SKU-based library of Flexera One. Suppose there are SKUs which are not recognized. We raise a case with them asking if they could please recognize this SKU or add this SKU to the SKU library. We are in touch with them. Suppose we are not understanding any feature of Flexera One, then we are asking them for a one-to-one call. They interact with us and easily tell us things which we can understand. I will give it a 10 for the technical support of Flexera One on a scale from one to ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Retailer
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise20
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise13
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Device42?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable. I do not know if a small organization would be able to afford it, but I presume it would also be co...
What needs improvement with Device42?
I think Device42 can be improved by adding more features around the CMDB aspect and lifecycle management. I do not think many people use it for that functionality, but if they were to expand the su...
What is your primary use case for Device42?
My main use case for Device42 is that we use it as a CMDB and affinity map to check out network topology or determine when we need to decom something in a life cycle. We use it for many different p...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FlexNet Manager?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is good overall, but the costs are relatively high. Simplifying the pricing model and reducing the implementation timeline would help.
What needs improvement with FlexNet Manager?
Flexera One can be improved through UI simplicity, faster implementation, and better performance with large data.
What is your primary use case for FlexNet Manager?
My main use case for Flexera One is to save costs, as this is the most valuable aspect to me. My primary use case for Flexera One is software asset management and compliance monitoring. I use it to...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

No data available
FlexNet Manager Suite, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises, Flexera SaaS Manager
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Computershare, Concur, Doosan, Fitch Ratings Inc., Fujitsu, HomeAway, Jasper Wireless, Mercedes-Benz, Square, Twitch, UCSB, Zayo Group Inc.
Foray Technologies, BMC
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