Change Title IBM i2 to Harris Class 2 Customers should be prepared to take actions Change Summary “Harris” acquires “i2 Product Portfolio” from IBM Flexera is going to migrate all i2 products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name “IBM” to “Harris”. ·         https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6513733 ·         https://docs.i2group.com/ ·         https://www.harriscomputer.com/news/en/newsdate1641272400articleharris-acquires-i2-product-portfolio-from-ibm   Note: We are migrating the products that come under the i2 family only Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/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 IBM i2 to Harris Product list (Updated) provides the complete list of all the software products under i2 family for which the publisher name will be renamed from “IBM” to “Harris”. When Customers should expect these changes to occur starting from Feb 27 th to March 3 rd . These changes have now been completed ... View more

Change Title Aspect Software to Alvaria Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions     Change Summary “Alvaria” has completed the acquisition of “Aspect Software”. Flexera is going to migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name ‘Aspect Software’ to ‘Alvaria'. https://www.alvaria.com/ Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/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 Aspect Software to Alvaria Product list provides the complete list of all the software products for which the publisher name will be renamed from “Aspect Software” to “Alvaria”.  When This has now been completed. Please see Aspect Software to Alvaria Product list_Updated.xlsx   ... View more

Change Title BlueJeans Network to Verizon Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary ‘Verizon’ has completed the acquisition of ‘BlueJeans Network’. Flexera is going to migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name ‘BlueJeans Network’ to ‘Verizon. https://www.bluejeans.com/       Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/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 BlueJeans Network to Verizon Product list provides the complete list of all the software products for which the publisher name will be renamed from ‘BlueJeans Network’ to ‘Verizon’.     When Customers should expect these changes to occur starting from Nov 28 th  to Dec 2 nd . ... View more

Change Title LogMeIn to GoTo Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary ‘GoTo’ has completed the acquisition of ‘LogMeIn’. Flexera is going to migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name ‘LogMeIn’ to ‘GoTo’. https://www.goto.com/blog/announcing-goto       Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/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 LogMeIn to GoTo Product list provides the complete list of all the software products for which the publisher name will be renamed from ‘LogMeIn’ to ‘GoTo’.     When Customers should expect these changes to occur starting from Nov 28 th  to Dec 2 nd . ... View more

Change Title Add-in Express to Office Data Apps SP. Z O.O Class 2 Customers should be prepared and take actions       Change Summary ‘Office Data Apps SP. Z O.O’ has completed the acquisition of ‘Add-in Express’. Flexera is going to migrate all products/releases/mappings from the old manufacturer name ‘Add-in Express’ to ‘Office Data Apps SP. Z O.O’ https://www.ablebits.com/about-us.php#:~:text=AbleBits.com%20is%20a%20project,z%20o.o.       Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/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 Add-in Express to Office Data Apps SP. Z O.O Product list provides the complete list of all the software products for which the publisher name will be renamed from ‘Add-in Express’ to ‘Office Data Apps SP. Z O.O’.     When Customers should expect these changes to occur starting from Nov 21 st to Nov 25 th . ... View more

UPDATE (as of Tuesday, November 22, 2022 5:04pm CST): Due to additional complexity and concerns about major impact on several customers who reached out since we posted this notification, we have made a decision to defer these changes until further notice. We appreciate your feedback and we'll continue working on the implementation plan. Any update will be posted on this notification. Change Title Introducing Unspecified version and Unspecified edition in Technopedia Class 1 Customers should be prepared and take actions Change Summary We are going to introduce a new version and edition pattern as “Unspecified” in Technopedia. Any discovery data that comes with invalid discovery version and is currently normalized to product-level only will be impacted by these changes and re-mapped to new releases with “Unspecified” version and/or edition. These changes are intended to maintain the data alignment between our two content libraries, ARL (for ITAM and FNMS solutions) and Technopedia (for IT Visibility and Data Platform solutions). Examples: 1. Below format will be followed for unspecified versions and for discovery data mapping, Manufacturer Product Version Version Group Microsoft SQL Server Report Builder Unspecified Unspecified WinEdt WinEdt Unspecified Unspecified 2. Similar way, we will be making the changes for edition Manufacturer Product Edition Binary Fortress Software DisplayFusion Unspecified Unity Technologies Unity Unspecified The scope of these changes at this time is limited to ARL applications and Technopedia releases which are currently in crosswalk. Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Manufacturer ID/Product ID/Release ID & Names or previously discovered data mapped to product-level will be mapped to the new release ID. The change needs the customer to manage downstream processes and reporting in their organization. When Customers should expect these changes to occur starting from December 6 th to 12 th deferred until further notice. ... View more

Change Title Adding Virtual models to Virtual subcategories Class 3 Customers should be prepared and take actions Change Summary In Technopedia, we do not have any virtual models under Hardware Virtual categories. To fill this gap, we are planning to include at least one virtual model ID for a few products under virtual categories.   Additionally, we are going to revisit the mappings in Hardware discovery data from product level to model level mapping when applicable. Impact This change will impact customers who have relied upon Hardware discovered data mappings, especially on virtual machines.   In the attached file, we have included a list of Virtual model IDs along with the corresponding category and product details. When Customers should expect these changes on 9 th March 2022 ... View more

UPDATE (May 9, 2022 09:15PM UTC): The work to capture Software Collection  and Base Package separately under Red Hat has been completed. Please refer to the latest attachment (Red Hat SW Collection and Base Package Report.xlsx) to get the complete details on all Release ID's along with the lifecycle dates that have been updated in Technopedia Change Title  Red Hat components from “Base Package” vs. “Software Collection” to be captured differently in Technopedia  Class 1  Customers should be prepared and take actions             Change Summary  Context: Red hat packages are available as either software collections or base package. The software collections allow users to concurrently install multiple versions of the same software components on their system. Currently, we have not differentiated these products in Technopedia.     This notification is to announce the intention to differentiate Red Hat components as software collection and base package in product and release tables in Technopedia. To apply these changes, we will be implementing below changes in Technopedia:    Software Collections:  New product will be added under Red Hat software collection with the prefix “rh- “ in the product name. Based on package version details in RHEL versions, we are creating releases along with lifecycle details for new products.  Examples:  Manufacturer   Old product name  New Product Name   Version   End of Life  Notes   Red Hat   ruby  rh-Ruby   2.4   Apr 2020     Red Hat   ruby  rh-Ruby  2.6   May 2022   New product name will be created as this package version is supported in RHEL 7   Discovered evidence data with “rh-xxxx” will be re-mapped to the above software collection products.    Base Packages:  We are going to differentiate the base packages by keeping their product names without any prefix. For the existing Technopedia products without this ‘rh-’ prefix in the name field, we are going to classify them as base package and will update their EOL dates in the way as mentioned below. Based on the discovered evidence data, we are going to capture version details as below, Examples:    ruby-2.0.0.648-38.el7.x86_64  ruby-1.8.7.352-3.el6.x86_64    The versions and EOL for these base packages will be captured in Technopedia as follows:    Manufacturer   Product Name   Version   EOL   Notes   Red Hat   ruby   1.8  11/30/2020   Following EOL for RHEL 6   Red Hat  ruby  2.0  6/30/2024  Following EOL for RHEL 7     Discovered evidence data will be mapped based on above scenarios.  Impact  This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID & Names and discovered previously mapped data to these packages. They will be reviewed and updated.  The attached excel file " RedHat_ProposedChanges.xlsx” provides an example of proposed changes.   When  Customers should expect these changes on April 1st 2022.  Completed on May 9, 2022. ... View more

  Change Title Microsoft Office for Mac 16/16.x Version Changes (Latest) Class 2 Customers should be aware and be prepared Change Summary Starting with the 16.17 release in September 2018, the release notes of Office for Mac apply to Office 2019 for Mac and the Microsoft 365 subscription version. [5] Starting with the 16.54 release, this information also applies to Office 2021 for Mac. [1] Microsoft Office for Mac version 16.x have three different license terms: Microsoft 365 subscription license, 2019 license and 2021 license. Versions 16.x with Microsoft 365 subscription, 2019 license and 2021 license share the same version history but with different lifecycle.[2] 2019 license will be end of life as 10/10/2023.[4] 2021 license will be end of life as 10/13/2026.[6] However, Microsoft 365 subscription always keeps the applications in support and up-to-date. [3] Microsoft 365 for Mac, Office 2019 for Mac and Office 2021 for Mac use the same application and file names, but the license information would not display in normalize discovered data. To accommodate the above changes, Flexera is going to update the Microsoft Office for Mac and its components version 16.x in the Data Platform. For Office for Mac, we are going to create a new separate product Microsoft 365 for Mac, and capture those 16.x version under version group 365 for the Microsoft 365 subscription. For the component products, for example Excel for Mac, we are going to change the existed version group 16 and version 16.x to version group 365 and version 16.x (365) for the Microsoft 365 subscription, to distinguish from the 2019 license and 2021 license. Product Version Group Version End of Life Obsolete 365 for Mac 365 16.54 12/31/2999 12/31/2999 365 for Mac 365 16.17 12/31/2999 12/31/2999 Office for Mac 2021 16.54 (2021) 10/13/2026 10/13/2026 Office for Mac 2019 16.54 (2019) 10/10/2023 10/10/2023 Office for Mac 2019 16.17 (2019) 10/10/2023 10/10/2023 Excel for Mac 365 16.54 (365) 12/31/2999 12/31/2999 Excel for Mac 365 16.17 (365) 12/31/2999 12/31/2999 Excel for Mac 2021 16.54 (2021) 10/13/2026 10/13/2026 Excel for Mac 2019 16.54 (2019) 10/10/2023 10/10/2023 Excel for Mac 2019 16.17 (2019) 10/10/2023 10/10/2023   The components of Microsoft Office for Mac will follow the same changes as Excel for Mac in the example, the components are as follow. Microsoft Excel for Mac Microsoft Word for Mac Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac Microsoft Outlook for Mac Microsoft OneNote for Mac All mappings will be reviewed and updated. Impact This change will impact customers who rely on Technopedia Product ID/Release ID & Names and discovered previously mapped data to Microsoft Office for Mac version group 16 and version 16.x. They will be reviewed and updated. The attached spreadsheet provides the full list of all releases in scope for this review that will be created. When Customers should expect these changes to have been completed starting from January 11, 2022 to January 17, 2022. Reference [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/release-notes-office-for-mac [2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-office-and-the-mac-app-store-ad2293a8-f5aa-4652-ae3f-83dda906d748 [3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microsoft-365-apps [4] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac [5] http://web.archive.org/web/20190617064626/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/release-notes-office-for-mac [6] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/office-2021   ... View more