An up-to-date inventory of the software installed on physical computers and virtual systems is of strategic importance for every company to control software costs and minimize the financial exposure stemming from software overlicensing. An accurate software inventory, which is also capable of tracking the real usage of the installed software, is key to understanding whether the discovered and licensed software is still actively used. An optimization effort can be initiated to determine whether the identified software product has not been used. This may eventually initiate the process of uninstalling unused software instances.”]