Data Intelligence Service Turn raw data into actionable intelligence
Snow Software Data Intelligence Service (DIS) experts translate raw data across your IT estate into a normalized view you can understand, communicate and reconcile. We augment this information with the metadata you need to monitor risk, maintain an effective license position and migrate to the most productive technologies. Daily updates and audits ensure your data is always current and trustworthy.
DIS is the world's largest normalization database with +750,000 software and SaaS applications.
Challenge Limited information makes it difficult to understand the bigger picture
- No clean and trusted source of truth for asset information and meta-data
- Different standards and lists of assets across the organization
- Extensive manual effort to augment information in order to make it actionable
- Asset data quickly becomes outdated
Solution Leverage clean and actionable data to transform your organization
- Work more efficiently and collaboratively on one universally trusted set of asset information
- Leverage fit-to-purpose, augmented data for license management, risk and productivity
- Act immediately with a full view of your estate and the important meta-data linked to your technology
How It Works
DIS works with our patented normalization engine to quickly and accurately identify and classify applications and technologies. This verified information, along with correct and validated outputs, fuels the Snow technology suite so our products can overlay logic to calculate risk, compliance and costs. Confidently share and act on insights around business risk, cost savings and productivity to drive change that matters.
Become a partner in productivity and transformation
To operate effectively, IT organizations need to communicate and act cohesively over technology adoption and use. Snow DIS offers a single source of truth across all technologies allowing stakeholders to work better together. By augmenting software titles, the DIS helps business units measure specific technology types against business outcomes, strategically consolidate technologies and work cross-functionally to consume the best technology solutions for them.
Risk mitigation through actionable data
More and more technology budgets sit outside of IT. This makes it easy for business units to circumvent internal compliance policies. So, how can you manage risk with incomplete data and so much unseen activity? Snow accurately normalizes software data and SaaS applications to give you better visibility of your environment. With augmented metadata such as types of personal data an application can hold, or vulnerability information, you can take immediate action toward mitigating risk.
Implementing a successful SAM program
DIS can help you avoid painful, manual effort and stale data by constantly updating its normalized applications for agile response and tailoring the asset information to the SAM user. It provides critical information about software manufacturers, how applications relate and application lifecycle data. Snow DIS also derives purchasing information such as SKU data, vendors and bundles.
See How DIS Drives The Snow Product Suite
DIS normalizes and augments data specifically tailored to users of Snow Adoption Tracker, Spend Optimizer, ITSM Enhancer and Risk Monitor.
The biggest benefit of Snow is the reporting. I’m able to be certain about the information I give to senior managers and we can make detailed business decisions based on that.
