Benefits
Fast Understanding Of Your Application Estate
Your raw application inventory is examined against the software catalog and automatically categorized as 'Mapped', 'Irrelevant' or 'Unknown.' Hardware manufacturers and models are also checked against the hardware catalog and categorized as 'Mapped' or 'Unknown.' Gap fill committments ensure nothing gets missed and in-house applications can be categorized manually to achieve 100% coverage. Typically, this process alone will shrink the applications list by 70% - 80% for major transformations like Windows 10.
Normalize All Data Points To Cut Down Master List Significantly
After categorization, rather than trawling a huge list of raw application data, the normalization process reduces this output of applications and hardware manufacturers to only relevant and consolidated minor versions. On average, a reduction of 3:1 is achieved for the hardware data. For applications, it is a lot higher, often reaching over 20:1. An example would be normalizing Adobe Reader 11.0.1 and 11.0.2 to Version 11.0. On the hardware side, for example, HP, Hewlett-Packard and HP Inc. are all mapped to Hewlett-Packard.
Instantly Know The Compatibility Status Of Your Application Estate
Mapped vendor applications are then checked for compatibility with Windows 10 or other target platforms. Categorizations are either 'Compatible', 'Incompatible but upgrade path exists', 'Incompatible' and 'Unknown.' Application data is added to show the first compatible version if an upgrade path exists, and whether that is a free or paid version. Applications then have additional lifecycle information added, including 'In Support' or 'Out Of Support,' 'End of Life Date' and 'Licensable to provide further reporting value.'
