ZENworks Asset Management Deployment

Asset management is the key to compliance and smart purchasing.

ZENworks® Asset Management starts with advanced tools that automatically inventory your hardware and software and provide detailed information about all the desktops, servers and network assets across your enterprise. This inventory gives you instant access to the data you need to ensure license compliance, reduce IT spending and support costs, and fuel other critical IT projects—including migrations, lease management, the service desk, planning and budgeting and asset redeployment. However, you may need help in deploying these advanced tools. Novell IT Consulting and its partners can help with a 2 to 3 week engagement that will help you take advantage of the full, advanced features of Novell ZENworks Asset Management such as:

Asset Discovery

Novell IT Consulting and its partners can help you deploy and implement Novell ZENworks Asset Management to accurately discover all the software and hardware assets in your company. This includes not only automatic detection of tens of thousands of industry–recognized products and devices, but also software suites, proprietary software and devices, as well legacy software and devices. With the proper deployment and configuration-- you can rest assured Novell ZENworks Asset Management is properly discovering all the assets in your enterprise.

Database Integration

Software license data can come from an array of different sources, including software reseller reports, spreadsheets and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Too often, this data is inconsistent and not normalized, making it difficult and expensive to use and manage. Novell ZENworks Asset Management addresses this challenge by providing Reseller Connectors for top software resellers and allowing you to import licensing data from any source in a text file format. Novell IT Consulting and their partners can assist you in integrating multiple sources of software license information by properly deploying and configuring these connector and assuring your data is normalized and in the correct format for importing.

Asset Tracking

Novell ZENworks Asset Management makes it easy to inventory your network and manage license compliance. It also offers deep visibility into both desktop application and server-side application usage trends. With ZENworks Asset Management, you can quickly generate reports that show which products and types of software are being used most—and even more important, which are not being used at all. The qualified experts of Novell IT Consulting and their partners can assist you in correctly configuring and deploying the advanced asset tracking features of Novell ZENworks Asset Management so you can rest assured that you are getting a complete and accurate picture of software usage in your enterprise.

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