Omnitam and the usual options.
What are you using today? Find that column. Categories are generalized from typical offerings as of October 2026; individual products vary. Omnitam works alongside them.
Spreadsheets, suites, point tools and Omnitam.
| Capability | Spreadsheets | ITSM / CMDB suites | Cloud cost and security tools | Omnitam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stays accurate on its own | No | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Agentless AWS discovery | None (manual) | Usually via a discovery module and a collector or server you run | Partial, for their own purpose | Yes: no host agents, one read-only IAM role |
| Time to first inventory | Weeks per audit (manual) | A project; varies by vendor | Fast to start | Under an hour for one account (see how it works) |
| Licenses and CMDB in one place | No | Partial | No | Yes |
| Rewind the estate to any date | No | Partial | No | Yes, with the Time Machine add-on, from when collection starts |
| Write-protected evidence, 7 years | No | Partial | No | Yes 1 year included, up to 7 years with the retention add-on |
Categories are generalized from typical offerings as of October 2026; individual products vary. Omnitam works alongside them.
No rip-and-replace.
Free to start, expensive to maintain.
Wrong by the time they’re finished. No discovery, weeks of work per audit, no history.
Powerful, with upkeep.
They usually need a discovery module and a collector or server, or agents, a long implementation and consultants, and the CMDB goes stale without constant upkeep. History is usually per item, not the whole estate. Omnitam can feed them through the API and webhooks: we keep the inventory truthful and hand it to your existing tools.
Fast to start, different job.
Cost tools tell you what you spent; security asset tools tell you what’s exposed. Neither keeps an ITAM and CMDB system of record with licenses, ownership and audit evidence. Omnitam is complementary.
Omnitam: no host agents, one read-only IAM role, first inventory in under an hour, licenses and CMDB in one record, history from when you connect, and write-protected evidence for 1 year, up to 7 with the retention add-on.
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