Snow Data Intelligence Service
Save time with automated data normalization and enrichment
Simplify, clean and add order to your on-premises, SaaS and cloud IT asset data with our market-leading normalization and enrichment service.
Do more with clean, enriched IT asset data
Clean CMDB
Clean CMDB
Eliminate the headache of reconciliation with a clean CMDB
Eighty-five percent of CMDB implementations fail due to poor data quality. Enhance the quality of your CMDB data by reducing the number of data sets and augment it with normalized, comprehensive IT asset information.
Accurate insights
Accurate Insights
Leverage clean data for robust analytics and AI models
Garbage in, garbage out. Flexera’s data intelligence corrects incorrect data issues such as duplicate data, inconsistent titles, misspellings and more and appends this data with additional details. With this enriched data, you can solve multiple use cases, such as reducing technical debt or improving upon sustainability goals.
Reduce sprawl
Reduce sprawl
Find application redundancies with application categories
Rein in software sprawl with enriched application categories and product usage details to identify candidates for application rationalization for your on-premises, cloud and SaaS environments.
Identify risk
Identify risk
Mitigate the risk from EOL apps
End-of-life (EOL) software is the perfect hunting ground for cyber threats. Proactively upgrade or remove EOL, end-of-support (EOS) or nearing EOS technologies with enriched IT asset data.
Clean and enriched data
Automated normalization and enrichment
The Snow Data Intelligence Service software database grows significantly on a monthly, weekly and even daily basis, and enrichment is continuously improved leveraging AI and machine learning capabilities. Enrich software titles with manufacturer, SKU, version, application category, release date, EOL date, malware, operating system and more to improve the value of your technology data and related insights.
How It Works
Inventory, normalize, enrich, analyze
- First, using various discovery methods (agent, API connectors, browser extension, SSO, etc.), we obtain a comprehensive inventory of on-premises, SaaS and cloud applications
- Then this data is fed to the Data Intelligence Service, where it is normalized and enriched
- The resulting output of this clean and enriched data is insights to help you reduce spend and mitigate risk
We chose the Snow SAM solution because it covers all our functionality requests, from the DIS [Data Intelligence Service] to the management of both installed and web browser software, without compromising data privacy. For the first time, if the operating companies agreed to take up the service, we could gain clear visibility of software across the entire estate.
ULF KUETEMEYER SENIOR MANAGER OF CONTRACTING & PROCUREMENT, PANASONIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPANY EUROPE
Our certifications
Yes, there are out-of-the-box connectors to the most common ITSM platforms, and the connector for ServiceNow is certified on the latest release. Snow Atlas also has an API that customers use to extract data to their business intelligence tools. Learn more about the ITSM connectors on the ITSM Enhancer page.
Yes, this service leverages AI, alongside human curation, to improve the quality, breath, and timeliness of our technology catalogue. The service automatically categorizes, catalogues and identifies new software versions and license models leveraging AI. This improves customer outcomes by using AI to help categorize applications, provide application descriptions and linkage to discovery evidence. Most importantly, our content team validates the results to ensure accuracy.
With more than 3,000 customers using the Data Intelligence Service, Snow offers a crowd-sourced service for automatically updated recognition signatures and rules, for both newly discovered software and cloud services. These are delivered automatically to customers via daily updates. The global software recognition database grows constantly and is globally one of the largest sources for identification of commercial software. The Snow Data Intelligence Service is immediately activated with the import of inventory data. This task is independent of the chosen inventory technology and the software recognition database is updated automatically every 24 hours.
The Private Application feature of Snow Atlas gives customers the ability to add custom applications to Snow Atlas so that they can easily discover custom applications and perform optimization and compliance analysis.
INFORMING IT, TRANSFORMING IT
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