Version Update · Enterprise
5,000 vendors ship patches. Know every one that matters.
A bank's core software may rely on Oracle databases, middleware, operating systems, security appliances and thousands of other third-party products — each shipping its own patches, hotfixes and versions on its own schedule. Tracking that with spreadsheets and vendor newsletters means critical patches get noticed late or not at all. Version Update watches every vendor you depend on and tells your teams the moment something they run gets a release — with the release notes attached.
Picture a bank whose systems rely on Oracle databases, WebSphere middleware, RHEL servers, VMware, security appliances and a few thousand other third-party products. Every one of those vendors ships patches, hotfixes and new versions on its own schedule, announced in its own newsletter, formatted its own way. Somewhere in the bank, someone maintains a spreadsheet of it all — and everyone quietly knows it's months out of date.
Version Update replaces that spreadsheet with monitoring. Your software inventory is registered once; from then on, every vendor release that touches something you run is captured, normalised into one readable format, flagged by criticality, and delivered to the team that owns it — with a complete audit trail for the regulators who ask how you track third-party patches.
Why enterprises switch
Spreadsheet tracking vs Version Update
Spreadsheets + vendor newsletters
How it's done today- Someone manually checks dozens of vendor sites and mailing lists
- Critical security patches buried under routine announcements
- Every vendor's release notes in a different format
- The spreadsheet is outdated the week after it's compiled
- No evidence trail when auditors ask what you knew, and when
Version Update
Monitoring, not bookkeeping- Vendors monitored continuously — releases captured on publication
- Matched against your inventory: teams only see what they run
- Release notes normalised into one consistent format
- Security and critical patches flagged and prioritised
- Full audit history, ITSM integration and API access
If your organisation depends on more third-party software than one person can track, the spreadsheet has already failed — you just haven't found out which patch it missed yet.
Built for the Oracle-sized dependencies
Databases, middleware, operating systems, runtimes, security appliances, business software — the deep stack under enterprise systems where a missed patch becomes an outage, a vulnerability, or an audit finding. Version Update watches it so your engineers can work instead of monitoring newsletters.
Works with
Features
Everything your business needs, nothing it doesn't
Vendor release monitoring
Continuous monitoring of the vendors behind your stack — databases, middleware, OS, runtimes, appliances, business software. When Oracle, Microsoft, SAP or any tracked vendor ships a version or patch, it's captured automatically.
Your inventory, mapped
Register the third-party software each of your systems depends on — 300 or 5,000 entries — and every release is matched against your actual inventory, so teams only hear about what they run.
Release notes, one format
Every vendor writes release notes differently. Version Update normalises them into one consistent, readable format — what changed, what's fixed, what breaks — so triage takes minutes, not mornings.
Criticality & security flags
Security patches and critical fixes are flagged and prioritised over routine updates, so the patch that closes a vulnerability never sits unread under forty minor releases.
Notifications where teams work
Email digests and instant alerts routed by team and system ownership — the DBA team hears about database patches, the infra team about OS releases. No noise, no misses.
Audit trail & compliance
A complete history of every release notified, seen and acted on — the evidence trail auditors and regulators ask for when they ask how you track third-party patches.
FAQ
Straight answers
What kinds of software can it track?
Anything your systems depend on: databases like Oracle and SQL Server, middleware, operating systems, runtimes and frameworks, security products, and commercial business software. If a vendor publishes releases, it can be tracked.
How is this different from a vulnerability scanner?
Scanners find what's already exposed inside your network. Version Update works upstream — it tells you a vendor released a patch or version the moment it's published, with the release notes, so your teams act before the gap becomes a finding.
How does our software inventory get in?
Bulk import from your existing spreadsheets or CMDB exports, then maintained in the dashboard or via API. Most enterprises are fully mapped within days.
Who is it for?
Enterprises and large teams whose software depends on many third-party products — banks, insurers, hospitals, manufacturers — anywhere tracking thousands of vendor releases in spreadsheets has become untenable.
Can it feed our ITSM or ticketing tools?
Yes — releases can raise tickets or notifications in your existing workflow tools via integrations and API, so patch evaluation enters the process your teams already follow.
