Hi,
A SAM customer approached me asking about Data Platform. From what I understood, there is an integration possible between FNMS and Data Platform to use Data Platform for application recognition. But I am not sure about how useful it really is at point of time.
Can someone please draw me a picture, what Data Platform really can do in comparison to the FNMS ARL? Does Data Platform incorporate the complete ARL? Or are there limits in scope, like only specific publishers?
Best regards,
Markward
‎May 14, 2019 07:11 AM
While the story is likely to change in the future, at this point in time (May 2019):
‎May 16, 2019 11:14 PM
While the story is likely to change in the future, at this point in time (May 2019):
‎May 16, 2019 11:14 PM
This is something we're working on here in Oz at the moment, and as Chris notes there are limitations to this at the moment, so I would tread very lightly.
The links between the ARL and Data Platform at this point in time are very focused and no where near complete. If, like us, you don't use the FNMS Agent and rather consume discovery from many many other discovery tools there is still value in Data Platform for its superior recognition matching and much larger catalogue.
However, the limitations that exist due to the progress made by Flexera, at this point in time, may require customisation's to get the full benefit out of the solution. Only Flexera can provide you those timelines. The customisation would need to be able to pass Data Platform catalogue information through to FNMS for anything that is NOT currently matched.
At this stage, I've not seen any real statistics around what has actually been matched, so it will depend on your own footprint and the types of vendors you have in your space whether it would be of value PLUS whether you utilise any of those other features in FNMS that would be missed by using it (sub-cab, Oracle, SQL etc ).
‎May 16, 2019 11:56 PM