Flexera’s Technopedia®

Strategically manage your IT assets with Technopedia

Control your entire IT asset landscape by using Technopedia, the most trusted and comprehensive source of hardware, software, SaaS and cloud product information in the world. Technopedia powers the Technology Intelligence Platform—the next-generation data and analytics platform for Flexera One—and gives you the most complete IT asset intelligence available, with the ability to identify more than 5 million hardware and software products. 

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Go beyond raw IT inventory data

Lifecycle management

Lifecycle management

IT currency with EOL/EOS support

Flexera’s end of life (EOL)/end of support (EOS) data enables you to make critical decisions about your environment based on what’s no longer being patched or supported. Technopedia’s lifecycle data empowers you to forecast risk in your critical business services based on upcoming EOL/EOS dates. For the resources that can’t be upgraded, you can anticipate the impact of increased costs for extended support.

Prioritize EOL/EOS

Consistent normalization

Consistent normalization

Normalize and categorize IT data

Technopedia enables your IT to speak a common language through normalization, giving you definitive names, models, versions and editions of your hardware, software and SaaS. Technopedia’s IT taxonomy is carefully curated and aggregated so you can have a consistent nomenclature of technology in your business systems. With over 4,500 unique updates made daily, each definition is categorized so you can easily find IT assets based on an authoritative classification.

Consolidate asset data efficiently

Prioritize vulnerability assessment

Prioritize vulnerability assessment

Access software vulnerabilities on your inventory

Technopedia’s IT taxonomy includes software vulnerability content from Secunia Research, which provides you with a security management view of your environment. See the risk in deployed software and patch versions so you can prioritize your security response. Now your IT team can manage proactively based on vulnerability intelligence.

Leverage Secunia Research

Estimate environmental impacts of hardware

Estimate environmental impacts of hardware

Technopedia helps organizations drive to greener, more environmentally friendly consumption of IT resources. Technopedia enriches hardware inventory with make/model and enriches the data with hardware specifications. And with Technopedia’s power consumption data, you can estimate your carbon footprint, plan for power consumption needs and understand the environmental impact of your IT.

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Complete technology data library

Clean, standardized and enriched intelligence

Leverage the world’s most complete universal catalog of reference data for IT products. Get standardized naming, clean results and market acumen only with normalized, enriched data. Enterprise IT environments consist of millions of distinct configuration items related in billions of distinct relationships. Technopedia can help you see the risks, costs or strategic direction of your environment.

60% reduction in time spent researching and validating technology data

SW Details

Feature details

Build a common language and taxonomy of IT

  • Eliminate manual cross-referencing to speed decision making with market leading coverage from Technopedia
  • Deliver market insights about lifecycle, categorization, security vulnerabilities, power consumption, open-source components and more
  • Plan for upgrades, modernization and extended support costs
  • Technopedia categorizes technology to reveal where you can simplify the environment by rationalizing duplicative software and hardware

Separating the data from the tools allowed me to build a single asset management solution for all assets across the different tools. I could get an accurate picture of all the assets, easily generate reports for compliance, and basically build a foundation for IT service management.

- IT Asset Manager Autotrader

Frequently asked questions

IT visibility is the ability to have a comprehensive, real-time insight into your organization's entire IT estate. This encompasses everything from traditional on-premises hardware and software to cloud-based services, applications, and the vast array of interconnected devices known as the internet of things (IoT). For more information, see our glossary here.

A CMDB is a core repository that serves as a data silo in an organization, keeping all the information about the company’s IT environment. This database is purposely built to manage configuration. A CMDB offers you a central place to store data related to your IT infrastructure and configuration assets. Learn more here.

The main difference between ITAM and CMDB is their purpose: ITAM is designed to monitor the procurement, implementation, maintenance and disposal of your IT assets, while CMDB monitors the characteristics, associations and dependencies of configuration items, giving you a clear picture of the effect of variations and occurrences across your IT infrastructure. Learn more here.

While both terms indicate phases where support diminishes for a product, they have distinct meanings:

  • EOL: This is the date after which a product will no longer be sold or renewed. However, it might still receive some form of support, such as security patches
  • EOS: This date marks the complete cessation of all support services for the product. After this date, no new patches, updates or fixes will be released, even for critical vulnerabilities

To learn more, see our glossary here.

Informing IT, Transforming IT

Industry insights to help keep you informed

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The truth about shadow IT: Insights from Imperial War Museums

Sit down with Alice Cole, Solutions Consultant at Flexera, and the winners of Flexera’s 2024 Technology Intelligence Awards for Innovation of the Year: Edward Kay, Head of Platforms and Development at Imperial War Museums and Cameron Ritchie, Founding Director of Radzik Services. Together, they explore how Flexera supported the Imperial War Museums’ digital transformation efforts, the challenges they were facing—in particular, duplicate licenses and shadow IT—and the strategies that led to their ongoing success.

Empower your IT asset data

Leverage powerful normalization capabilities to combine and clean IT data from all your inventory sources.

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