Planned Technopedia Platform Maintenance

We would like to inform you of planned maintenance for the systems that support Technopedia content management and delivery during the weekend of October 10-11 2026, IST.

This activity is part of our ongoing efforts to improve the reliability, scalability, and long-term sustainability of the Technopedia platform.

What does this mean for you?

·       No action is required.

·       No service outage is expected.

·       No changes are being made to Technopedia functionality, data feeds, integrations, or workflows.

·       No impact is expected on your business operations.

Technopedia data is expected to resume its usual refresh schedule from Monday, Oct 12th 2026.

This maintenance is being performed behind the scenes and is not expected to affect your use of Technopedia or Flexera products that consume Technopedia content. We will closely monitor the environment throughout the maintenance window and provide an update if necessary.

Thank you for your continued partnership.

Title: Manufacturer Name Change - ALM Works to Tempo

Class 2

This update introduces significant coverage changes that could adversely affect some customers. If these changes aren't reviewed in advance, they could affect customer environments. Please be aware and make any necessary adjustments.

 Manufacturer: ALM Works(Tier3)

Summary

Based on our analysis, the manufacturing needs to be updated from ALM Works to Tempo.

Flexera will also migrate all associated products, releases, and mappings from the old manufacture ALM Works to new manufacture Tempo.

Ref: http://almworks.com/

Tempo acquires ALM Works | Tempo

Impact

This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID & Names, or previously discovered data mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change requires the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization.

The spreadsheet “ALM Works to Tempo” provides the complete list of software products for which the product name will be renamed from “ALM Works to Tempo”

Timeframe

Expected Time to Implementation (ETA): October 26, 2026 to October 29, 2026

Thank you

Title: Manufacturer Name Change - Office Timeline to Lucen Software

Class 2

This update introduces significant coverage changes that could adversely affect some customers. If these changes aren't reviewed in advance, they could affect customer environments. Please be aware and make any necessary adjustments.

Manufacturer: Office Timeline(Tier 3)

Summary

Based on our analysis, the manufacturer needs to be updated from Office Timeline to Lucen Software.

Flexera will also migrate all associated products, releases, and mappings from the old manufacturer Office Timeline to the new manufacturer Lucen Software.

Reference: https://www.lucensoftware.com/

Impact

This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID & Names, or previously discovered data mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change requires the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization.

The spreadsheet “Office Timeline to Lucen Software” provides the complete list of software products for which the manufacturer name will be renamed from “Office Timeline to Lucen Software”.

Timeframe

Expected Time to Implementation (ETA): October 7, 2026 to October 13, 2026

Thank you.

Title: Technopedia Release Lifecycle Dates Update

Class 2

This update introduces significant coverage changes that could adversely affect some customers. If these changes aren't reviewed in advance, they could affect customer environments. Please be aware and make any necessary adjustments.

Summary

As part of our ongoing quality check and data validation activities, Flexera identified 56 releases where the currently published End of Life (EOL) dates require correction based on vendor-supported lifecycle information.

After a detailed review of the available vendor documentation and support policies, updated EOL dates have been determined for these releases.

Flexera plans to update the EOL dates for the affected releases in Technopedia following a one-week customer notification period to allow customers sufficient time to review the proposed changes and raise any concerns

Impact

Customers using these releases for lifecycle management, reporting, compliance, or software asset management purposes may observe changes to the published EOL dates once the update is implemented.

The update affects only the EOL date for the identified releases. No changes will be made to product names, release names, mappings, manufacturer information, or Product IDs/Release IDs.

A spreadsheet “Quality Check (New EOL dates)” containing the affected releases, their current EOL dates, and the proposed updated EOL dates will be provided for customer review.

Timeframe

Expected Time to Implementation (ETA): September 28th to 30th September,2026.

The changes have been implemented.

Thank you

Title: Product Name Change:

MicroStrategy One to Strategy ONE

Class 3

Minor updates as a result of "Business-As-Usual (BAU)" activities, which historically cause no adverse impact on customers' environments except for coverage increases.

Summary

Based on our analysis, we need to update the Product Name from MicroStrategy One to Strategy One.

Flexera will also migrate all associated releases and mappings from the old product, MicroStrategy One, to Strategy One.

Reference: https://www.strategy.com/press/strategy-announces-legal-name-change-from-microstrategy-incorporated-to-strategy-inc_08-14-2025

Impact

This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID & Names, or who previously discovered data mapped to the old manufacturer, which will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change requires the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization.

Timeframe: 

Expected Time to Implementation (ETA): Sept 30th – Oct 1st 

Thank you.

Title: Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client to Cisco Secure Client

Cisco Diagnostic AnyConnect Reporting Tool (DART) to Cisco Diagnostic Secure Client Reporting Tool (DART)

Class 1: Customer Action Recommended

Major updates that introduce new or modify existing content to change the behavior of existing product features or deprecate any existing content (along with the associated product features), which may require customers to make necessary adjustments beforehand.

Change Summary

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client to Cisco Secure Client

Cisco Diagnostic AnyConnect Reporting Tool (DART) to Cisco Diagnostic Secure Client Reporting Tool (DART)

Flexera will migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old product name to the new product name listed above.

https://blogs.cisco.com/security/more-than-a-vpn-announcing-cisco-secure-client-formerly-anyconnect

Note: For the below-mentioned products that have AnyConnect, we will be updating these dependencies along with the above-mentioned Product Name changes. 

1.     AnyConnect Network Access Manager

2.     AnyConnect VPN Client

3.     AnyConnect Wireless Only Client

These products are Components/modules within the Cisco Secure Client family; therefore, we will be migrating all old mappings to the New Product, Cisco Secure Client. 

Impact to Customers

This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID & Names, or on previously discovered data mapped to the old product. The change requires the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization.

Note:

·      As part of the new CCN process, releases with the updated name have already been created in Technopedia.

·      The migration of discovered data mappings will occur after 1, 2, or 4 weeks, depending on the CCN type. In this case, it will be two weeks.

·      Accordingly, the New Release IDs and mappings are included in the spreadsheet to help manage downstream processes and organizational reporting.

The attached spreadsheet provides the complete list of all Software Products and Releases impacted by the Product name change from Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client to Cisco Secure Client and Cisco Diagnostic AnyConnect Reporting Tool (DART) to Cisco Diagnostic Secure Client Reporting Tool (DART). 

Timeline & Support

Customers can expect these changes to occur on/after 30th Sep 2026.

Thank you.

Title: Upcoming Changes to Publisher from Learning Pool to Confirm

Class 2

This update introduces significant coverage changes that could adversely affect some customers. If these changes aren't reviewed in advance, they could affect customer environments. Please be aware and make any necessary adjustments.

Manufacturer: Learning Pool(Tier 3)

Summary

Based on our analysis, the manufacturer has been updated from Learning Pool to Confirm.

Flexera will also migrate all associated products, releases, and mappings from the old manufacture Learning Pool to new manufacture Confirm.

Ref: Learning Pool Rebrands As Confirm And Launches The Workforce Enablement System (WES) | Confirm

https://learningpool.com/

Impact

This change will impact on customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID & Names or previously discovered data mapped to the old manufacturer will be mapped to the new manufacturer. The change needs the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization.

The spreadsheet “Learning Pool to Confirm” provides the complete list of software products for which the Manufacturer name will be renamed from “Learning Pool to Confirm”.

Timeframe

Expected Time to Implementation (ETA): September 30th – October 7th,2026

 The changes have been implemented.

Thank you

Title: Correcting Version group for Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package product versions 14.50 and 14.51 

Class 1

Customers should be prepared and take the necessary actions.

Summary

Correcting the version group for Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package product versions 14.50 and 14.51.

Previously, these releases were created under version group 2022 in Technopedia; however, based on the actual product versioning, they should be aligned with Visual Studio 2026. So, we have decided to capture these versions under the ‘2026’ version group.

References:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/msvc-version-1451-available/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/visual-c-faq

Impact

This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID & Names or previously discovered data mapped to the old product will be mapped to the new product. The change requires the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization.

Note:

·  As part of the new CCN process, releases with the updated name have already been created in Technopedia.

· The migration of discovered data mappings will occur after 1, 2, or 4 weeks, depending on the CCN type. In this case, it will be one week.

· Accordingly, the new release IDs are included in the spreadsheet to help manage downstream processes and organizational reporting

The new changes will have an impact on both the catalog and evidence mapping levels, as there will be updates/deletions at the existing catalog level that directly impact the existing normalized Mappings. Details of these sample evidence, products, and releases are provided in the attachment.

Timeframe

Expected Time to Implementation (ETA): on/after September 2026, 18th.