Software Technologies Inventory and Attributes - IT Environment attributes for the Software Technologies Inventory
Software Technologies Inventory and Attributes
Chapter 25. IT Environment attributes for the Software Technologies Inventory
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Core Concepts
| Concept | Definition & Strategic Role |
|---|---|
| Environment Presence | Which environments the technology is deployed in, which determines the obligations that attach and the urgency of any remediation. |
| Hosting Model | Whether the technology runs on enterprise infrastructure, in a cloud provider, or is delivered as a managed service, which determines who operates it. |
| Infrastructure Dependency | What the technology requires beneath it, which is how infrastructure change propagates into the technology layer. |
Quick Q&A
Question: Does a technology deployed only in development belong in this inventory?
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IT environment attributes record where each software technology is deployed and what it sits on.
| Attribute Name | Maturity | Description and Notes |
|---|---|---|
Environments Deployed [Multi-Value] | Walk | Description — The IT operating environments in which the technology is deployed. Benefit(s) — Separates production exposure from lower-environment presence, so remediation is prioritized against where the technology actually matters. Source — Derived or Manual. Examples — Production, Staging, Test, Development Notes — Typed references to the IT operating environments inventory where it exists. A technology in development only still belongs in this inventory. |
| Hosting Model | Walk | Description — Where and how the technology is hosted. Benefit(s) — Determines who operates the technology and which operational risks the enterprise retains rather than transfers. Source — Manual. Examples — On-Premises, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Provider-Managed Notes — Related to Deployment Model in the classification category but narrower: this records where it physically runs, not how it is consumed. |
| Installation Footprint | Run | Description — The scale of the technology's presence — instance counts, node counts, or equivalent. Benefit(s) — Supports capacity, cost, and licence-consumption analysis, and reveals sprawl that a single record otherwise conceals. Source — Derived. Notes — Best derived from discovery tooling; manual counts age quickly and are rarely re-checked. |
Infrastructure Dependencies [Multi-Value] | Run | Description — The infrastructure the technology requires beneath it. Benefit(s) — Makes infrastructure change traceable into the technology layer, so a platform migration can be assessed for what it disturbs. Source — Manual or Derived. Notes — Distinct from Technical Dependencies, which record other software technologies rather than infrastructure. |
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