Inventory Program

inventory program is a piece of software designed to detect and store the corporate inventory details and biuld inventory reports (combined and printable) showing the company ownings from the different points of view. If speaking about the computer inventory software, they should detects information about the company workstations and their configuration, store collected data in a database and display the detected details in a nice graphical view. On demand, this software should be able to build inventory reports and display consolidated information on the company PC assets with the filtering and sorting options.

It is very important that an inventory software should have a reliable open database with the export possibilities. The network administrator can be willing to export collected inventory data in the in-house company database using ODBC so they could manipulate data and generate reports in a friendly environment. According to what the users say, the possibility to export inventory details is a very important issue of such program.

And, finally, such a program should be as easy to use as possible. "Wasy to use" actually means not a standard program interface or help system, but the routine of the program installation process. Some of the inventory programs require a network administrator to manually install the client software to each and every networked computer in the company. It sounds silly if the entire company network contains of hundreds and thousands of PC's in different sites or even different countries.

No, this is absolutelly unacceptable. An inventory software should be able to install the required client modules by itself to all PC's and servers in the entire network - or even do not require that installation, allowing the network administrator to inventory computers remotelly.

This is how the Asset Tracker for Networks program works. It does not require the network administrator to install any client software to the network PC's but detects as much as 1-2MB of inventory details from each individual computer instantly, and allows to export detected information to external databases. Please try the free trial version of the software and check if it meets your requirements.

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