Software Asset Management

Three Steps to Software License Compliance

Minimize the workload needed to achieve compliance by using the advanced recognition and reconciliation capabilities in this toolset. The process broadly falls into the following three steps.

• Discover the entire network and remove unwanted software
• Import the MLS statement and purchase orders, then match off against recognized software
• Use Built in Compliance reports and license or uninstall underlicensed software

The compliance process begins as soon as the implementation of discovery or the SCCM integration component is complete. For a typical organisation with 15,000 discoverable IT assets, visibility of the legal compliance position can be available within one week and accurate compliance status position statements can be start to be taken within four weeks.

Availability

xAssets Software Asset Management is now incorporated within the following solutions:

xAssets Network Discovery is a complete solution that includes Software Asset Management functionality as part of the core product.

xAssets IT Asset Management is a full lifecycle IT Asset Management solution for companies with xAssets Network Discovery, with other discovery tools or with SCCM/SMS. This also includes Software Asset Management functionality as part of the core product.

xAssets Software Discovery Service is a 60 day service to enable companies to quickly establish their Software License Compliance position, using xAssets Network Discovery in a hosted environment.

These products are designed to meet the scalability needs and extensive configuration requirements of very large enterprises, while also delivering the needs of Medium Size Enterprises with zero or minimal configuration.

Screenshots

Software dashboard can be set to the home page, showing drilldownable summary charts and inventory. All charts, menus, links and scripts are configured to customer requirements.$Software reports and the associated calculation engine are configured to each customers needs and include license allocation, downgrade rights, and licensing schemes including Microsoft Software Assurance are covered$List of recognized primary software titles on a discovered computer including date installed, date discovered and date uninstalled$Images and any kind of document can be attached to assets, incidents and most other data entities in the database$Windows servers, auto run programs, patches, software keys and many other values are collected by discovery and by SCCM integration$Queries can be configured to run in a context, which leads to specific functionality relevant to that query and the surrounding workflow$IMACS reporting including Software is fully supported - Installations, Moves, Adds and Changes (IMACS) reports on all changes to asset infrastructure between defined dates. These reports (and any other report in the system) can also be issued through email alerts as email text content or as email attachments

Image 1 of 7 - Software dashboard can be set to the home page, showing drilldownable summary charts and inventory. All charts, menus, links and scripts are configured to customer requirements.

Benefits

• Discover software installed on PCs across the network
• Analyse software installed on PCs across the network
• Import software license purchases
• Match software license purchases against usage on the network
• Group licenses into license pools
• Manage support agreements and other software related contracts
• Purchase software licenses in advance of going underlicensed
• Receive notifications when a user installs software
• Remove unauthorised software installations, freeing up licenses
• Reduce support incidents

Features

• Automatically recognize incoming software titles from publisher spreadsheets such as the MLS statement
• Classification of software according to risk, importance and licensing
• Import software license purchases and match off against discovered titles
• Discovery is fast and very low bandwidth and nothing is installed on desktops
• Assign software licenses to specific PC's
• Standardised reports on compliance position are part of the core product
• Adapt the system through configuration to your specific requirements
• Integration with SCCM, SMS, Active Directory and other products
• Email alerts

Information Collected

The discovery processes uses a wide variety of discovery techniques to collect Software information from assets across the network including the following:

• Operating Systems Version and Edition
• Sql Server Discovery and Licensing Model Identification
• AutoRun entries from Local User and System Registry
• Software is discovered and identified from executable file headers AND from registry entries
• Services running on both Servers and Desktops
• Antivirus software is recognized and classified
• Detailed Hardware Asset Information including Monitors, VM Hosts and Devices

Software Recognition in xAssets Network Discovery and in xAssets IT Asset Management is complemented by a manual recognition process. We receive unrecognized software lists from customers on a regular basis, and these items are manually investigated by our staff and added to the software recognition database. xAssets feeds software recognition data to your local installation or hosted installation on a regular basis, so unrecognized software is always dealt with in a timely and efficient manner.

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