LicenseWatch Advanced IT Asset Manager
Administrating IT assets inside any type of business is
not trivial and can take up a tremendous amount resources
and time. Todays complex IT environments consist of mixed
asset types, which does the task of managing IT assets a
pain killer. The most rational assumption would be, not
to spend effectors on IT Asset Management, but according
to IDC “Companies practicing Asset Management lowered their
annual cost by nearly 20% on average.”
With LicenseWatch Advanced IT Asset Manager all assets
are found in few seconds and is never more than a few clicks
away. The centralized IT asset Database will automatically
be updated with desktops/servers and all employees. This
effective way of collecting relevant data will free up resources
for more challenging tasks.
By connecting IT assets to persons, departments, countries
or companies ownership can easily established, giving the
complete picture of the IT installation. LicenseWatch Advanced
IT Asset Manager enables the administrator to customize
the input to the system so it will fit the organizations
needs. The powerful search mechanism effective filters the
information and displays only the relevant ones.
The reporting capabilities are unlimited. Reports like
total running IT cost on department level, top 10 most IT
cost effective departments, IT Assets which have not been
utilized for an amount of time and many other types of reports.
The advanced report capabilities, insures that all data
always can be found and exported to other business applications
like Enterprise Resource Planning solutions SAP, Microsoft
Business Solutions, Oracle Financials and others.
According to Meta Group “Effective IT asset management
can generate a tremendous return on investment”
LicenseWatch integration for Active Directory benefits:
- Business reporting for better decision making on how
IT assets are utilized and securing better return on investment.
- Extremely versatile user interface, which can be customized
to fit exactly to organizations needs.
- In combination with LicenseWatch Notification – The
administrator will be notified when IT assets have not
been used for a period of time and other types of warnings.
- Interact with and uses the structure from Active Directory.
- In combination with Microsoft SMS 2003 data can be collected
with the SMS agent or/and LicenseWatch agent.
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