<div><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">This update contains
features that extend software discovery and enhance license reporting.
The key features include:</span><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Improved
license planning and prevention of security risk by setting up and monitoring
end of support dates for selected software products</b></span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">BigFix Inventory
provides the end of support dates for selected IBM software products and
components for which the information has been announced. Additionally,
both License Metric Tool and BigFix Inventory provide the possibility of
manually adding end of support dates for products and components that are
not available out of the box.</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Benefits:</b> </span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">You
can use information about end of support to easily define license demand
for the future. You can also use it for security purposes. For example,
to determine whether software installed on a computer that is under investigation
is still supported or could be exposed to security vulnerabilities.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"><b>Extended
reporting capabilities for Virtual Processor Core (VPC) license metric</b></span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">BigFix Inventory
and License Metric Tool measure utilization of the Virtual Processor Core
(VPC) metric. The metric is based on the number of virtual cores (vCPUs)
that are available to the product. VPC consumption is reported on the physical
server level as well as across servers similarly to what is available for
other license metrics such as PVU. </span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Benefits:</b> You
can measure virtualization capacity that is used within a physical server
as well as across servers for VPC licenses to properly monitor usage of
resources as well as perform adequate license management control.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Introduction
of the Package Data Summary report (BigFix Inventory only)</b></span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The Package Data report
lists software packages that are discovered on the computers in your infrastructure.
You can find out what is the name of every package, its version, vendor,
description, and type. Every occurrence of the package is listed as a separate
row on the report. </span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">This application update
introduces the Package Data Summary report. The report provides an aggregated
view of the discovered packages with a number of times each package appears
in the infrastructure. This number is a hyperlink that brings you to the
detailed list of computers where the package is deployed.</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">From the Package Data
Summary report, you can generate software signatures with one click. You
can also select multiple packages and create signatures in bulk. </span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Benefits:</b> The
process of creating signatures from package data is simplified. You can
easily create software signatures for up to 20 components at once. Additionally,
the report provides information about which packages were already used
as signatures, so you can focus only on the remaining ones.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Reporting
information about the detailed version of Windows applications (BigFix
Inventory only)</b></span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Installed software
components that are detected based on the presence of specific files are
reported with a detailed version which is the same as the file version.
The information is shown in the Component Detailed Version column on the
Software Classification report. </span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Benefits:</b> The
information can help you decide whether versions of installed software
components are covered by your entitlements and are in line with the company
policy. It can also be used for security purposes. For example, to check
whether the latest security patches are installed or whether versions with
vulnerabilities exist in the infrastructure.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Updates
of the software catalog will be delivered in the form of content packs
</b></span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Until now, the software
catalog was versioned, published and updated separately. From the following
release, the software catalog will be delivered in the form of a content
pack that is versioned along with the version of the application. </span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Additionally, the process
of updating the software catalog is simplified. You simply need to run
the Software Catalog Update task that downloads the software catalog, and
automatically uploads it to the BigFix Inventory server during the next
import of data. </span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Benefits: </b>Manual
upload of the software catalog through the BigFix Inventory user interface
is no longer needed.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Discovery
of new components from Windows, Corel, Adobe, Symantec and SAP</b></span><span style=" font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b></b></span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b> (BigFix
Inventory only)</b></span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The software catalog
is extended to discover new components from Windows, Corel, Adobe, Symantec
and SAP. To discover the components, ensure that you upgrade BigFix Inventory
to version 9.2.11.</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Below is the list of
the newly added components. To learn about their exact versions, use the
Software Catalog widget in BigFix Inventory to browse the catalog content.</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Added
discovery capability for Windows products</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Windows
Defender </span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Added
discovery capability for Corel products</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">CorelDraw
Graphic Suite</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Added
discovery capability for Adobe products</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Adobe
Flash Player</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Adobe
Lightroom CC</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Adobe
Lightroom Classic</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Added
discovery capability for Symantec products</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Altiris
Deployment Solution Agent</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Altiris
Patch Management Agent</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Symantec
Encryption Desktop</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Veritas
Enterprise Vault</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Added
discovery capability for SAP products</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Courier New">o
</span><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Sybase
Central</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Benefits:</b> More
visibility into deployed products and components and better license management
without the need to develop custom signatures.</span><br><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Action to take</b></span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">To learn how to get
the application update and deploy it as well as to view the full list of
new features and APARs that were fixed in this application update, see
the following links:</span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">BigFix Inventory: </span><a href=http://ibm.biz/bfi_update_9211><span style=" font-size:10pt;color:blue;font-family:Arial"><u>http://ibm.biz/bfi_update_9211</u></span></a><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">License Metric Tool:
</span><a href=http://ibm.biz/lmt_update_9211><span style=" font-size:10pt;color:blue;font-family:Arial"><u>http://ibm.biz/lmt_update_9211</u></span></a><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><br><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Questions</b></span><br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">If you have any product-related
questions, please post them on one of the following fora:</span><br><a href=http://ibm.biz/BFI_Forum><span style=" font-size:10pt;color:blue;font-family:Arial"><u>http://ibm.biz/BFI_Forum</u></span></a><br><a href=http://ibm.biz/ILMT_Forum><span style=" font-size:10pt;color:blue;font-family:Arial">http://ibm.biz/ILMT_Forum</span></a><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></div><BR>