Public blogs and product messaging promote Active Resource Inventory as a real-time (or near-real-time) system that maintains visibility over logical and physical resources across hybrid environments. Advertised goals include:
Industry and older collateral sometimes refer to Consolidated Resource Inventory or broad Resource Inventory as a central repository for topology, configuration, status, connectivity, and assignment—feeding planning, fulfillment, and assurance. AS1’s current public naming favors Active inventory in cloud-era messaging.
Service Inventory+ (public product naming) is described as a centralized view of provisioned services spanning traditional, hybrid, and virtual infrastructures—linking customer-facing services to resource consumption.
Marketing and older public overviews list themes such as:
Source A’s inventory is open, community-documented, and developer-extensible with a clear DCIM/IPAM heritage. AS1 inventory is commercial, CSP-oriented, and bundled with BSS and orchestration as a suite sale—different packaging and integration depth, not a direct feature checklist match.