Asset Management Services

Your company relies on its IT assets for every aspect of its business. If managed correctly, they can be the foundation for improved productivity, low costs and simplified management. However, mismanaged assets can lead to failed audits, expired licenses and heavy financial penalties.

As an IT manager, you are in charge of knowing which software licenses your company has, how they are being used, and all entitlements, costs and compliance issues related to IT asset management. The problem is that you have no way to compile and document which resources are actually being correctly utilized. And with changing regulatory demands and increasing audit pressure, your old methods of keeping track of assets simply can’t keep up. Spreadsheets no longer provide you with the detailed information you need to successfully complete required audits.

Knowledge is power. And our Asset Management solution empowers your entire IT system with the asset knowledge you need—without the hassle.

In addition, without this complete view of your company’s assets, you are unable to confidently buy new software. In purchase negotiations, you likely feel vendors are taking advantage of you because you don’t know if the extra license the software vendor offered to throw in was something you even need. You are also worried you are spending too much of your already strained budget on software that isn’t being used.

It is clear that you need a solution that will give you a comprehensive view of your assets, no matter which platform they run on and independent of vendor. Novell's open source, interoperable solutions are the answer.

Prove Compliance and Lower Costs

With our Systems Management solutions, you get all the information you need in one convenient report. Novell products produce reports that combine licensing, usage and installation data. When you need to complete an audit, the required information is at your fingertips. You can prove that your company is compliant, so you can avoid penalties and fines at the same time that you simplify your management tasks. And when a software vendor approaches you with a licensing offer, you can easily tell if it makes sense for your company’s business goals.

You can also cut IT costs dramatically. Our Systems Management solutions give you an in-depth view of which licenses are being used and which are not. You can stop paying for unused licenses and pay only for those you need. And helpdesk costs will go down because troubleshooting is seamless and fast. You and your IT team will have the information you need to make IT asset management easy so you can spend time on value-added projects.

Take Control of Your IT Assets

Our Systems Management solutions provide everything you need to get unruly IT assets under control, including:

• Comprehensive asset inventory based on patented recognition technology
• License management
• Reconciliation of software inventory and licenses
• Informed purchasing

All these features give you a complete view of your system so you can reduce costs, manage complexity and mitigate risk from the desktop to the data center.

Your IT assets are supposed to be just that—an asset. However, when you don’t know how many you have, where they are and how they’re being used, they can quickly become a liability—especially when you’re facing audits.

Ensuring that your company is not penalized for failing audits is a critical job. However, with so many licenses to keep track of, in so many different locations, you may be having a hard time fulfilling this responsibility. It can take your team hours to compile the information manually, keeping you from spending your personnel resources on more important projects.

Do more than just reduce cost, complexity and risk. Reduce the stress and pressure associated with auditing and compliance using our Asset Management solution.

In addition, when your team finally gets the information compiled, the data can be inconsistent, making it difficult and expensive to manage. You need a way to import licensing data from resellers, reduce software reconciliation efforts, import purchase orders and organize products into a group. You need the Asset Management solution from Novell.

Complete Asset Management

Using our Asset Management solution, you can implement a complete asset management system. So when you are facing an internal or external compliance audit, you can feel secure knowing that your assets are compliant. And, with the built-in reporting features in Asset Management Services for Novell ZENworks Configuration Management, you can prove your company is compliant—and avoid fees, penalties and fines at the same time.

With our Asset Management solution to control your IT assets, you'll be able to:

• Automatically manage inventory
• Gain more insight into your company's assets
• Enable better business decision making
• Eliminate software overspending
• Avoid audit stress

And you'll be confident that your assets are working for you, not against you.

Take Control

It’s all about keeping track. You can’t prove your assets are in-line with industry regulations if you don’t have a system to document, enforce and report on your licenses. Our Systems Management solutions can improve your ability to accurately track and monitor software licenses, installations and compliance.

What’s more, we give you all the tools you need to get the information that’s so important when you’re facing an audit. With Systems Management solutions, we’ll help you feel secure with your assets, so you can focus less on meeting audit requirements and more on running your business.

Buying and renewing more software licenses than you need take a bite out of an already stretched IT budget. Comprehensive license and user information can also strengthen your company's bargaining position when buying new software.

Although you may have streamlined the process as much as possible, collecting licensing and usage data can still be a long, painful process. Relevant licensing data can be coming at you from all over the enterprise— software reseller reports, spreadsheets and ERP systems, to name a few. You need a way to make sense of all that data, even when it wasn't consistent or normalized.

Asset Management Services delivers a clear, comprehensive view of all your IT assets, right when you need it.

You need a way to quickly see what licenses you have, how many and how they are being used. Without that data, every audit can be a hassle. The staff hours you use to complete the audits result in lost value because you and your staff are busy finding and compiling licensing information, instead of being productive focusing on value-added projects.

You can turn to Novell for help. So when the next audit comes, you will be ready.

Reduce Licensing Expenses

With Asset Management Services for Novell ZENworks® Configuration Management, you'll change the way your company manages its licenses and purchases its software.

Our Asset Management Services deliver the most detailed and accurate view of your software usage, licensing data and asset inventory. In addition, you'll quit paying for more hardware, software and licensing agreements than you really need because you'll know exactly which applications are being used.

But you can use Asset Management Services for much more than just licensing data. You can use it to track and monitor installations and compliance initiatives, manage the contracts for your hardware throughout its lifecycle, and easily identify which machines are not Vista-ready. You will get a complete asset management solution in one console that fits seamlessly into her mixed environment.

In addition, your department will actually able to reduce licensing expenses, freeing money for other valued-added projects.

Finally, you'll be happy because you will have all your key data at your fingertips.

Our Asset Management Solution Delivers

Learn how Asset Management Services for Novell ZENworks Configuration Management can help you manage complexity in your enterprise. You get:

• Accurate Software Usage Data: Our solution gives you instant visibility into desktop application usage trends so you can see who's using what and, more importantly, what isn't being used at all
• Comprehensive Asset Inventory: Our solution automatically inventories hardware and software, delivering quick insight with out-of-the-box reports
• "License View" Software Compliance: Our solution combines inventory data with purchase and license records to give you a true "license view" of your compliance status