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.

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

• Automatically updates software technology lifecycles
• Enables effective decision making
• Helps track technology obsolescence within HOPEX IT Portfolio Management

• 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

• Vendor import tool in HOPEX IT Portfolio Management:
  • Import specific software vendors from Flexera Technopedia.
  • Update properties of imported vendor in HOPEX ITPM repository.

• 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