Software Inventory

Why do you need to do software inventory? What benefits will your organization get from that?

The short answer is: "licenses". Each and every PC is equipped with the programs it runs, and those programs cost money. When an organization purchases certain program, the software vendor or seller sells that organization the right to use that program on a certain number of computers only. Unfortunatelly, many software programs do not have built-in tools checking the proper use of the licenses bought (that is, they do not alert the Network Administrator if the amount of installations exceeds the amount of licenses actually bought, and that can bring the company to big penalties to be paid to the software vendors).

The simplest way to avoid this problem is to control the number of software licenses on the company servers and workstations with the help of a special software product designed to do that work for you. When started, that software scans the corporate local area network for workstations and servers, and scans each PC found for the software programs installed. After this software inventory scan will be done, the software will build the detailed report showing the number of installations of each individual program on the company's PC's. The network administrator will compare these figures to the number of licenses the organization actually owns and make a decision to either buy the outstanding licenses or to remove the software from the PC's where it is not used.

This is the way how our Asset Tracker for Networks works. You can download the free evaluation version of the software and check how does it detect software licenses for you, or switch to the Asset Tracker's main page to see all advantages of this software.

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