Hi Richard,
A couple of points here - for selecting which applications are added to the ARL, Flexera will look at a number of factors, such as the frequency and number of requests for an application, the Vendor or Manufacturer of the application - where top tier vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and others are evaluated more carefully than niche vendors, and some customer-specific metrics too. Flexera will also look at work-in-progress, where applications that are not currently in the ARL, but have been evaluated, may be in the w-i-p queue. There are a number of different criteria that are looked at.
Of course, customers can add a recognition logic into their private catalog (identified as 'local' in the Installed Applications view) and create a temporary application until the official, Flexera Catalog item is released, as a stop-gap approach to address recognition that is needed immediately.
If your question is regarding the evidence itself - i.e. the ARP data, or file evidence, then I would say regardless of the evidence source, Flexera will test the logic before releasing it to the Flexera catalog, to ensure that application-specific logic is correctly identified and used, so as not to provide false recognition.
HTH.
R.Miller
