Import components from IT-Pedia®
IT-Pedia® from Eracent is a comprehensive IT product library that provides an up-to-date source of data about IT products of all types including, for example, hardware, software, and network devices. Alfabet provides an out-of-the-box integration with IT-Pedia that allows you to import components to the Alfabet repository. When an IT product is imported from IT-Pedia, it is imported to the Alfabet repository as a component. The manufacturer supplying the IT product is used to associate the respective component with an existing vendor in the Alfabet repository. If the vendor does not exist, it will be created and added to the Alfabet repository.
You can import IT-Pedia products in the IT-Pedia®Catalog - Models or products that you have added to My Product Catalog - Models. For details about Eracent's IT-Pedia®Catalog - Models or My Product Catalog - Models, access your account at: https://itpedia.eracent.com/PB/Account/Login
The following processes are supported in the context of IT-Pedia integration.
- Bulk import of products in IT-Pedia® Catalog - Models or My Products - Models to Alfabet. The products are imported as components and their vendors will be added to the Alfabet repository.
- Synchronize Alfabet components with their related IT-Pedia products. This ensures that the IT-Pedia library in My Products - Models is kept up-to-date. If a component is deleted from the Alfabet repository, the related component will be deleted from My Products - Modules.
- Update Alfabet components with IT-Pedia data . The scheduled nightly job ensures that components in the Alfabet repository are regularly updated with current product data in IT-Pedia's My Products - Modules. The batch job updates component data such as component lifecycle and vendor information and creates new components in Alfabet for newly added products in IT-Pedia's My Products - Modules.
- Merge duplicate components in Alfabet based on IT-Pedia products. A selected master component will remain in the repository and the other components will be deleted.
To use capabilities available for IT-Pedia integration, you must have access to an IT-Pedia account. If this is not the case, please contact and request access via: https://empower.softwareag.com/ContactSupport.
Be sure to add the columns Synchronize with IT-Pedia and IT-Pedia Enrichment to the Components data workbench in order to keep the component data current in the Alfabet repository as well as in Eracent's My Products - Models.
A nightly batch job triggers the ADIF import job schedule IT-Pedia Integration. This imports the data from IT-Pedia based on the data maintained in IT-Pedia's My Products - Modules. Please note that this does not delete components in IT-Pedia that have been delete in Alfabet nor does it merge duplicate products. The ADIF import job schedule IT-Pedia Integration can also be triggered on an ad-hoc basis by an administrative user.