software company based in itasca illinois . 1 flexera software is a private equity backed company with more than 70 000 customers . 2 flexera software provides software licensing compliance and installation solutions for application producers and mid to large enterprises . the company s products include installshield installanywhere flexnet publisher adminstudio app portal and flexnet manager suite for enterprises . 3 the company has approximately 600 employees worldwide among which 200 are located in its chicago area headquarters . 4 the company has been named a top chicago workplace by the chicago tribune in 2012 2013 and 2014 . 5 history edit the company used to be the rovi corporation s software division at the time it was still named macrovision . on 1 april 2008 macrovision sold its software division to the thoma cressey bravo investment fund . 6 in october 2009 acresso software inc. became flexera software . 7 on july 19 2011 thoma cressey bravo sold a majority stake in flexera software llc to teachers private capital the private investment department of the ontario teachers pension plan . the transaction was finalized on october 3 2011 . references edit http www.flexerasoftware.com company news center press releases flexera software announces new company headquarters in itasca il.html thoma bravo sells flexera to canadian teachers . it jungle . july 26 2011 . company overview of flexera software llc . bloomberg businessweek . thoma bravo sees 4.6 x return on flexera sale . wall street journal . july 19 2011 . flexera software . chicago tribune . thoma bravo completes acquisition of macrovision s software business unit acresso who macrovision spinoff changes name again external links edit official website official website germany this united states software corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title flexera software & oldid 739882305 categories software companies based in illinoisprivately held companies based in illinoiscompanies based in dupage county illinois2000s establishments in illinoiscompanies established in the 2000sunited states software company stubshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipediayear of establishment missingall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 17 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view