Software Licensing - Ensure Compliance

How Does Asset Asset Tracking Edition Track Software Licenses? Why is it so effective at ensuring Compliance? Please see our Software Licensing Audit Case Study detailing benefits obtained by a multi-national by using our discovery tools.

Asset Tracking Edition tracks changes to those assets over time via automatically scheduled inventories. Its rich repository of current and historical asset information is easily accessible via a Web-based reporting interface that provides simple, one-click reports as well as complex query construction, enabling comprehensive data mining to answer business-critical questions about IT assets under management.

Together with the latest Dependency Mapping and CMDB technologies, Asset Tracking Edition provides for you a depth of knowledge of your application infrastructure in your data centre and desktop environment to automate processes, align IT to your goals (eg. ITIL, Sarbanes Oxley) and among other things, ensure software license compliance.

Asset Tracking Edition has a proven ability to take the ad hoc, manual tasks of asset discovery and tracking that typically consume IT and transform them into automated, web-based systematic processes that can be managed in a more consistent, predictable manner than ever before.

Specifically, Asset Tracking Edition provides the following key capabilities:

• Powerful, Accurate and Comprehensive Discovery: Discovers and tracks virtually every hardware and software asset element in the enterprise -- from desktops, laptops, mainframes and servers to switches, routers, hubs, printers and PDAs.
• Extensive Software Repository: Extensible, web-enabled, software repository provides an expansive database of asset attributes and software signatures.
• Comprehensive Reporting: Sophisticated, web-based reporting capability provides complete history and trend analysis.
• Software License Management: Built-in software usage monitor provides superior usage determination and software license management capability.
• Open, Standards-Based Architecture: Opsware Asset Insight's open, standards-based architecture is designed for easy integration with third party applications.

Specific benefits:

• Reduce TCO: Automated asset tracking eliminates laborious and costly physical inventories and helps IT leverage and standardize assets across the enterprise. This leads to more efficient resource utilization, effective corporate-wide standards enforcement, accurate asset allocations, depreciations and charge-backs and reduced total cost of asset ownership.
• Improve Visibility and Control: By centralizing the tracking and management of enterprise-wide assets, IT organizations gain improved visibility and control over deployed IT assets. This enables IT decision makers to make rapid, informed decisions regarding asset investments to meet technology demands, as well as rebuild the enterprise in the event of a disaster while minimizing downtime.
• Maximize Asset Return on Investment: With detailed information on hardware and software license deployment and utilization IT gains visibility into the true cost and impact of software and hardware purchases and upgrades, enabling better planning and budgeting for asset investments.
• Increase QoS: Empowered with current and historical asset deployment and configuration data, IT support staff can respond and service the needs of the enterprise with increased efficiency, thus minimizing end-user downtime and increasing overall service quality.
• Enable true IT asset lifecycle management: For a comprehensive model of the enterprise, IT organizations using the Asset Insight infrastructure can automatically reconcile all physical inventory data associated with each asset with corresponding financial and contractual information in a single, central repository using Resonance's asset management solution -- Enterprise Insight.