Managing Contextual Data Mashup

Note: IT Visibility with Technology Intelligence Platform is required to use Contextual Data Mashup in Flexera One. For more information about what version of export you are using, see Versions of the IT Visibility Export Feature.

In IT Visibility, you can use the Contextual Data Mashup to augment your organization's inventory data with non-discoverable business context data you provide. On the Contextual Data Mashup landing page, you can upload your business context data as a comma-separated value (CSV) file and, when the CSV data processing has completed, you can begin working with these new attributes in Power BI. The contextual data you upload can be combined with your normalized inventory and the Technopedia catalog data on software and devices to produce unique reports tailored to your organization's particular business needs. The custom reports and insights built with your normalized inventory data and your contextual mashup data have the potential to identify business strengths and weaknesses or to illuminate behavior so you can make better-informed, data-driven decisions.

Similarly, these data mashup capabilities are also available via the Contextual Data Store API. Using the Contextual Data Store API’s search, query, and filter calls, you can programmatically upload, manage, and operate on the business context data you have in the Technology Intelligence Platform.

See the following topics for instructions on uploading data and managing uploaded datasets.

Topic	Description
Contextual Data Mashup Overview	Describes the purpose of contextual data store and provides guidelines uploading and modifying this data in Flexera One. Here, you can find role requirements, reference field requirements, and CSV file constraints.
Uploading Contextual Data	Explains how to upload your organization’s non-discoverable business context data to allow you to use it when generating queries and reports in Flexera One.
Modifying Existing Contextual Data	Includes instructions for both the modification of the schema for an existing dataset as well as updating the data in an existing contextual data upload.
Deleting Existing Contextual Data	Explains how to permanently remove previously uploaded contextual data from IT Visibility.
Working With the Contextual Data Store API	Describes how to work with the Contextual Data Store API to augment your organization’s inventory data with non-discoverable business context data you provide. This section explains how to match your contextual data, for devices or for software, with your data in Flexera One and includes the following subsections: • Preparing the CSV File  • Making the API Calls  Note:Additional information is available about this API. For API reference documentation, see the Contextual Data Store API on developer.flexera.com.

Note:Customers who want to use data mashup but who have not yet been upgraded to IT Visibility with Technology Intelligence Platform: refer to Managing Data Mashup for instructions.