Software Audit

Almost every organization having at least 10-15 PC's and more (or much, much more) needs to set up special procedures with the computer users. Computers are quite complex things and sometimes slow down because of the incorrect settings that were the reason on the unproper use of the non-qualified users. Users install new programs, re-confugure existing software or download updates, and finally this results in the fact that his or her PC slows down, gives a wrong reaction to the human commands and so on. Finally, a user cannot do his/her job because he/she has got his/her PC out of order, and they now need a qualified assistence from the network administrator. However, the organization cannot hire a separate network administrator for each user, and one network administrator cannot have time to help hunders of users if their workstations permanently are out of order.

To solve the issue, the corporate IT stuff often establish certain rules and policies preventing the employees from the something that could negativelly reflect on the computer stability. But this does not always help since people still need certain rights to implment their tasks, and sometimes they can change something that will slow down or change configuration of their workstations even if strict rules are in act.

This is the case when the software audit will help. Using certain network software, such as Asset Tracker for Networks (please check the free evaluation version here), the organization's IT guys can do the full audit of the software and hardware components for all servers and workstations connected to the company LAN. After this job will be completed, the network team will be able to build detailed reports that will help them find the software issues that might prevent the PC's from working properly, and solve the issues immediatelly even before they will actually start making serious problems to the other employees.

Please check the Asset Tracker for Networks software and find out how does this tool will help you to perform the full software audit in your company.

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