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HOPEX ITPM – Flexera Technopedia Integration
HOPEX ITPM – Flexera Technopedia Integration
Integration With Flexera To Track Technology Obsolescence
Hopex IT Portfolio Management also offers categorized and organized software product lifecycles to IT administrators, integrated with BDNA Techopedia ™. This feature allows you to track and manage deprecated and ineffective products, and thus protect you from unnecessary and unexpected costs and expenses.
- Automatically updates software technology lifecycles information in HOPEX repository
- Avoids the hassle of manually updating technology lifecycles
- Enables Portfolio Managers to better assess software technology portfolio, manage obsolescence and vendor support changes
- Technopedia tracks ~1.2 million IT hardware models and software releases, and 57 million+ market data points.

Why Flexera Technopedia?
Flexera Technopedia:
- Is the world’s largest catalog of IT products
- Tracks ~1.2 million IT hardware models and software releases, and 57 million+ market data points.
- Categorized and structured with attributes such as product lifecycle, end-of-life, and more
- Over 2,000 updates daily to ensure data fidelity, and available via web service API
Integration with Flexera Technopedia to Track Technology Obsolescence

Solution Benefits
- Automatically updates software technology lifecycles
- Enables effective decision making
- Helps track technology obsolescence within HOPEX IT Portfolio Management
HOPEX Flexera Technopedia Integration

Flexera Technopedia Product Structure
- Taxonomy
- Product type (CRM, database, etc.)
- Software vendor
- Product vendor (Oracle, Microsoft, etc.)
- Software Product
- Software Product name (MySQL 5.7, Java SE 7, etc.)
- Import Search criteria
- Software taxonomy
- Software vendor
- Software product name
Taxonomy Import Tool
- Taxonomy import tool in IT Portfolio Management:
- Import taxonomy from Technopedia.
- Update properties of imported taxonomy in HOPEX IT
Portfolio Management repository.
Vendor Import Tool
- Vendor import tool in HOPEX IT Portfolio Management:
- Import specific software vendors from Flexera Technopedia.
- Update properties of imported vendor in HOPEX ITPM repository.
Software Technology Import Tool
- Software technology import tool in IT Portfolio Management:
- Import software products from Technopedia
- Update properties of imported software product version and release in HOPEX IT Portfolio Management repository.
Imported Software Product Information
- Imported software properties include:
- Release date
- End of support date
- End of extended support date
- It also includes software and version information from Technopedia
Technopedia ID in HOPEX to Automate Technopedia Import
- Include a Technopedia ID into existing technology components of HOPEX IT Portfolio Management, so that Technology lifecycle data is automatically updated from Technopedia.
- Search fields to look into Technopedia catalog are also automatically populated based on the selected technology component to facilitate the search
Alert Reports in HOPEX IT Portfolio Management
- Alert reports provide a comprehensive view on technology portfolio obcolesence
- Portfolio breakdown includes:
- Early stage: before release date
- Supported usage: between release date and end of support date
- Late usage: between end of support and end of extended support dates
- Unsupported usage: after extended support date