Asset Management Services
for ZENworks Configuration Management
With Asset Management Services for ZENworks Configuration Management you can now track and manage all of your license agreements and related entitlements, cost, consumption, and compliance regardless of the platform license model or term. Replace all those spreadsheets, and get unprecedented visibility to unused entitlements. Make all your licenses pull their weight.
Overview
Asset Management Services, running on the new ZENworks architecture, provides a single license repository for all platforms and types of licenses. It can record and report complex license scenarios and adjustments in the license repository (versus cumbersome spreadsheets). It gives your organization comprehensive visibility into under-utilized and unused entitlements, and can record and consolidate summary license data from acquisitions. Finally, it provides that all-important "complete view" of metrics and status reporting for proving license compliance.
Features and Benefits
Know what Assets you have
Asset Management Services can help you get a handle on every IT asset in your company. Use it to get reports that integrate licensing, installation, and usage data. Allocate licenses where they need to go. Manage and monitor all your IT contracts. Learn More +
License management
With Asset Management Services you can now track and manage all of your license agreements and related entitlements, cost, consumption, and compliance regardless of the platform license model or term. Replace all those spreadsheets, and get unprecedented visibility to unused entitlements. Make all your licenses pull their weight. Learn More +
Informed purchasing
Knowing exactly which software assets are being used and how frequently, gives you enormous power when you negotiate with vendors. You'll know what you need or don't need from them. You'll know whether it's worth anything to you for them to throw in another software license. Learn More +
Recognition technology
Go beyond scanning hard drives. A sophisticated recognition engine drives the inventory capabilities of Asset Management Services. This technology goes far beyond simply scanning hard drives and displaying a list of raw executable files. Instead, an advanced auto-discovery process carefully analyzes the software on your hard drives and checks against an extensive application Knowledgebase to accurately identify all the software running on your systems. Learn More +
Software reconciliation
Match your inventory with your licenses. Asset Management Services can tell you exactly what software is running in your organization, give you a complete, accurate view of all your software licenses, and reveal how software inventories and licensing data relate to each other. (Also include on the drop down page, "It simplifies and automates this complex process reconciling installed products with purchased licenses.") Learn More +
Control your IT budget
Asset Management Services helps you improve the accuracy and timeliness of the IT budgeting process. Comprehensive Web reporting with multiple graphing and display options, hundreds of built-in reports and queries, and also asset history and trend analyses will help you know which licenses and contracts need to be extended. The trends can point you toward future needs which will help in planning IT expenditures. In addition, it will reduce your help desk costs by making troubleshooting fast and easy. Learn More +
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