Management maintains an accurate software inventory recording for each application or database its name and type, developer, vendor, install date, licence renewal and end-of-support dates and expected life, serial number, version, patch level and last patch date, licences and users allowed, environment, owner, whether run internally or hosted at a third party and where, criticality from the software assessment, data classification and physical or virtual location.
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.