Vector IT Asset Management Solutions
Software Compliance and Optimization
Management Information and Decision Support on
Software Requirements, Software Inventory and Usage

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Business Needs Answered

Organizations use this solution to -

  • Ensure the organization is compliant in its software licensing.
  • Minimize the cost of application software through optimized deployment and elimination of waste.
  • Provide accurate information to support asset management functions such as desktop asset valuation, application maintenance cost analysis and upgrade budgeting.
  • Eliminate variation in application versions and support application updates.
  • Quantify and profile application usage to support usage-based charge-back, and to guide provision of user training.
  • Identify applications particularly appropriate for migration to streamed provision.
  • Provide Web-accessible information for use by support staff.

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Customer Perspectives

Software License compliance has climbed the agenda of the CIO, driven by lurid stories of massive fines and adverse publicity for organizations found to be lacking in their application license coverage.

A knee-jerk response involving additional license purchases to cover every installed application instance is almost always going to be expensive and wasteful.

By taking a broader objective of re-aligning application licensing to a refreshed and accurate assessment of requirements, validated by continuous feedback of application usage, compliance is achieved within an overall program of Software Asset Optimization.

A program of Software Asset Optimization is more likely to achieve savings than create additional licensing costs (see Gartner and others).

Solution Essentials

  • The solution automatically discovers and surveys your PCs, and populates and refreshes a SQL-compatible database with accurate and detailed information on installed software and its usage.
  • It enables easy assessment of real application license requirements with its simple to use Application Package Policy Manager.
  • It provides drill-down, Web-based reports, organized in sets around your business needs. Output is available in all popular formats (.PDF, .XLS, etc) and can be emailed from within the report interface.
  • The reports provide operational and strategic decision support information, and answer a wide range of practical and commercial asset-related questions. Examples -
    • What software do we have installed?
    • Do we have sufficient licenses for all our Microsoft/Oracle/Adobe/etc software?
    • Are all the installed copies of our expensive accounting/marketing/business intelligence/etc packages regularly used?
    • How many copies of each application package in our portfolio do we really need? Do my installed copies match our assessment of what we need?
    • What reductions can we make in our annual software maintenance costs?
    • Do the patterns of use of the MS Office component programs justify my current annual costs? How many copies of Office Pro could be downgraded to Standard?
    • Are all my installed copies of Application X of precisely the same version?
    • When was Application X last updated on the PCs in a particular department?
    • Based on patterns of use, are there some applications we should consider moving to a server or to streamed provision?

    If these are the sorts of questions you need answering, then why not explore the Report Suite on-line.

  • AM Pro analyzes the installed software in each PC using a unique 'Triple Pass' method to maximize recognition accuracy and scope. This provides the strongest foundation for achieving and demonstrating Software License Compliance and for supporting the process of Software License Optimization. (The use of less rigorous software identification tools can immediately erode your compliance status.)

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Available for MSDE, SQL Server and Oracle

Out of the box, this solution will automatically create an initial evaluation database using MSDE, enabling you to evaluate the capabilities without needing to allocate managed SQL Server resources. Conversion over to SQL Server is simple and automated. Some larger organizations have standardization of all database applications around Oracle, and these customers should consult their Vector Solution provider for information and guidance on configuration of their Oracle database.

Complementary Solutions

The most commonly requested complementary solution is the Asset Discovery and Mapping Solution, which will discover and interrogate all your PC and network hardware assets. It also provides extensions to the asset database which facilitate definition and recording of any asset types you require; there are some 30+ default asset types, such as scanners, printers, monitors. Compliance and Optimization is tightly integrated with Asset Discovery and Mapping in Vector's Asset Management Pro Solution. If efficient (re)deployment of applications and application updates is a separate problem, then we invite you to evaluate the combination of conventional software distribution and advanced application streaming in Vector's Application Provisioning Solution.

Further Information and Resources

If you prefer to review information before downloading a trial copy of the Compliance and Optimization solution, the following resources are available to you -

  • On-line Screenshot Gallery of the Asset Management Console.
  • On-line Screenshot Gallery of the Reporting Portal.
  • On-line Reporting Portal with sample data - unlimited access time.
  • White Paper on Software Identification Methodology.
  • For a no-obligation review of your business needs and Vector's solutions family, call now on +1 770-622-2850.

Or download the fully functional 30-day trial.