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 enviroments 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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