UPDATE (as of Tuesday, December 6, 2022 9:35am CST):
In order to accommodate requests from some of our customers with regards to the timeline, we have decided to delay the implementation until the end of January 2023.
We appreciate your continuous feedback. Any update will be posted on this notification.
Change Title
New Software Subcategories in Technopedia
Class 1
Customers should be prepared and act
Change Summary
Flexera is introducing new software subcategories under the category “Tools and Utilities/Utilities”.
These changes are intended to maintain the appropriate categories for the products which were classified under “Other Utilities”.
We will be revisiting/updating the existing products under “Other Utilities” subcategory and making the changes based on the identified subcategories that can be from the new list or from the existing category.
The scope of these changes at this time is limited to ~9k products under “Other utilities”. The remaining ones will be taken up in the next set.
Impact
This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia product categorization to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization. In addition to introducing the new subcategories, products will be realigned from their existing category/subcategory into one of these new categories/subcategories.
Details of these products are provided in the attachment – “Proposed new category list along with products list.xlsx”
When
Customers should expect these changes to occur starting from December 26th to 30th, 2022 January 25th to 31st, 2023.
