Flexera SaaS Management Data Ingestion Utility

The Flexera SaaS Management (FSM) Data Ingestion Utility is a client-based Windows desktop tool to help upload data from your organization’s multiple SaaS applications on a regular schedule.

The following sections describe this application’s prerequisites, setup, settings, features, and sample data.

Prerequisites for FSM Data Ingestion Utility
Installing FSM Data Ingestion Utility
FSM Data Ingestion Utility Setup
FSM Data Ingestion Utility Settings
Managing Organizations in FSM Data Ingestion Utility
Importing SaaS Data into FSM Data Ingestion Utility: CSV File or API?
Preconfigured SaaS Applications Within the FSM Data Ingestion Utility
Scheduling CSV Jobs in FSM Data Ingestion Utility
Scheduling API Jobs in FSM Data Ingestion Utility
Exiting FSM Data Ingestion Utility
Uninstalling FSM Data Ingestion Utility
FSM Data Ingestion Utility Sample Data

FSM Data Ingestion Utility Workflow

The following diagram describes the key steps of the FSM Data Ingestion Utility.

1. Map the input CSV file or API data source fields to Flexera’s SaaS Import Job API.
2. Schedule the upload data frequency between your organization’s SaaS applications and FSM Data Ingestion Utility.

Key Features

The FSM Data Ingestion Utility has the following key features.

All Inclusive

Ingests all your organization’s SaaS vendor data to reflect your entire SaaS environment

Flexible & Extendable

Creates and changes field mappings as needed
Creates job upload schedules to suit application usage data availability

Reliable

Tracks and provides visibility into application activity through audit logs
Retries job uploads multiple times to ensure reliable delivery

Scalable

Enables the ingestion of enterprise-level data
Automatically handles ingestion of large CSV files by splitting files into 10MB chunks

Secure

Requires token-based authentication
Encrypts and stores refresh token in a database