Unfortunately, good source data is hard to come by. Imagine the following software publisher names Normalization in database terms is the concept of having a single record represent multiple items, in other words to standardize naming conventions so they all point to the same record. What you really want is for all these Company names to point to Microsoft. Our catalog spans over 10 years and covers over 90,000 software publishers and 3 million software titles.

Take this example and multiply that out thousands of times for all the various publishers in your environment, then add in software titles and you can see that accurate reporting can become a nightmare.ĪssetLabs can normalize these records so that a single publisher represents the many variations that you commonly find in your network.

We also do this for software titles, and versions. The end result is significantly better quality reports without any hard work on your part.ĪssetLabs’ License Intelligence provides an instant ROI by taking the guesswork out of knowing whether a license is needed or not.

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