The Ivanti Software Catalogue™ enables accurate identification and normalisation of over 9,500 software titles. By integrating the industry's most widely trusted software catalogue into your own asset or endpoint management solutions, you can help your customers improve their security posture, lower their software spend and simplify licence management.
Learn about the Software Identification Challenge: Why it Matters, and what you need to know.
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When you become an Ivanti OEM Partner, you guarantee that your own endpoint or asset management solutions deliver on your customers’ expectations for comprehensive, accurate software identification—and the “downstream” business value enabled by the ability to properly recognise what’s installed on endpoints across the enterprise.
With a global footprint of millions of endpoints, the Ivanti Software Catalogue is being licenced by some of the world's leading endpoint vendors including HCL Technologies, BMC, ASG, and Kaseya. Isn’t it time you did too?
Your end users are struggling with software identification, and they expect you to deliver a solution whose data can be trusted. By licencing the Ivanti Software Catalogue, you ensure your customers are taking advantage of the most reliable and widely used software catalogue in the world—and equip them for success with their software management efforts.
Because its software catalogue has been under development for over 20 years, Ivanti is uniquely positioned to deliver the database and keep it up to date—for a fraction of what it would cost you or anyone else. By letting us do the work, you save money, avoid distractions, and ensure your development resources are deployed to the most strategic areas of your business.
With a global footprint of millions of desktops, the Ivanti Software Catalogue has rapidly become the "gold standard" for software recognition. Maintained by a dedicated team of researchers, the database grows daily through contributions from its extensive network of end users, as well as data provided by software publishers. By using this "crowd-sourced" approach, we ensure the catalogue remains continuously up-to-date and relevant to today's corporate desktop environment, and you can deliver a market-validated solution that will continue to evolve along with your customers' needs.
A widely recognised shortfall of many software inventory tools is their reliance on file header or registry entry data to perform the complex task of identifying software. While this "raw" application data provides important clues that aid in software recognition, it's virtually impossible to obtain an accurate view of installed software without cleansing, classifying, and normalising that data and attempting to map it to how software is actually licenced.
The Ivanti Software Catalogue allows data points collected from discovered executables and registry entries to be mapped to their proper software titles, versions, editions, and manufacturers.
The Ivanti Software Catalogue enables you to deliver the following features where file header and registry analysis fall dangerously short.
The Ivanti Software Catalogue normalises all the variations of any given software title, version, or publisher into consistent, familiar nomenclature. For example, software licence agreements often allow installation of simultaneous versions or multiple copies of an application. If file headers are used for recognition, it's often difficult to recognise the same title due to variations in collected header data – which raises significant challenges for licence management, with each version or installation potentially viewed as a separate application requiring its own licence. The Ivanti Software Catalogue lets you consolidate versions of a given application under a standardised application title and manufacturer, while still preserving the versioning information.
Most applications consist of more than one executable. It’s easy to misidentify multiple related files as independent applications or to skip over them altogether. Manually identifying and correcting such errors can be an overwhelmingly tedious and time-consuming process. The Ivanti Software Catalogue makes it easy to group all discovered executables from the same application, facilitating faster and more accurate licencing evaluations.
Standard registry analysis methods will typically identify the presence of a suite, but fail to reveal which components of the suite are actually installed. This makes it extremely difficult to collect software usage data on individual programmes in order to determine whether they are actually being used. Techniques that rely on executable information alone may recognise individual suite components, but correctly recognising which suite must be licenced requires additional information as not all components may be installed. The Ivanti Software Catalogue uses GUIDs in conjunction with executable file information, making such determination possible.
