By tracking the software used within the business, we can ensure we know what software we have to support down to the product version and who is using it. This also enables us to track authorized versus unauthorized software installation.
Windows Intune splits software into two important categories—installed and licensed. All installed and deployed software is managed from the Software workspace. The Licensing workspace shows information regarding our software licenses and detected installations against those purchases. To effectively manage software, we need to look at the installed software as well as the license purchase and usage.
There are two ways to look at the software installed on managed computers from within Windows Intune:
Software installed on an individual computer
Estate-wide software view