> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.docusnap.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Software and Integrations

> Installed software, bundled products and the seven ways data from foreign systems comes in.

## Software

Every scan of systems — *Windows*, *Linux*, *macOS* — creates two types: the
individual installed software per system and, above it, the software product
that bundles several installations together. Neither carries a view of its
own; the installations themselves sit in the *Software* area on the
inventoried system.

<Note>
  The same application appears in two places: as *Software* per system it is
  installed on — with a version — and as *Software Product* for all these
  installations together, without a version.
</Note>

<Tip>
  *Software Product* arises from the scan and bundles installations of the same
  vendor product. *Application*, by contrast, you create yourself and use to
  bundle what is, in business terms, one application — even across several
  products and systems. The two are not the same, see
  [Sites and Organization](/docs/en/assets/locations-organization).
</Tip>

## Integrations

Seven types map where data from foreign systems comes from: *Email*, *NFS*,
*REST API*, *(S)FTP*, *SMB*, *SQL* and *Upload*. No scan creates them — you
create them yourself when a source has no scan of its own: an order list from
the ERP, a contract from the archive, an export from a foreign system.

Each type carries only a name plus two properties:

| Property | Values |
| - | - |
| Format | *CSV*, *JSON*, *XML*, *SOAP*, *EDIFACT*, *SQL Dump*, *Other* |
| Trigger | *Event-Based*, *Scheduled*, *Manual* |

<Note>
  The trigger also records reliability: a scheduled feed delivers regularly, a
  manual one only when someone remembers.
</Note>

## Related

Credentials for the scan modules that capture software are in the
[Scan Reference](/docs/en/scan/reference). How a software product becomes an
application in business terms is recorded under
[Sites and Organization](/docs/en/assets/locations-organization).


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