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Asset Manager Pro Solution

Whether your priority is regulatory compliance, software license compliance, basic inventory, software license optimization, PC replacement planning – or any other aspect of IT asset management – Vector’s IT Asset Manager Pro answers your needs.

• Accurate asset information including application software usage
• Unique software requirements planning
• Comprehensive Web-based License Management, also available standalone
• Web-based reporting and analytics
• LAN and Web-enabled to reach all your systems
• Self-managing; it works for you, not you for it.

Further Information

IT Asset Management Deliverables

• Accurate, up-to-date information with which to manage your IT Assets.
• Increased effectiveness in IT asset management.
• Software license compliance and minimized licensing costs – the key goals for software asset management.
• The tools and opportunity to pro-actively optimize your application software licensing and deployment. Our white paper on Software Asset Optimization outlines this best practice approach.
• Accurate desktop refresh planning.
• Accurate targeting of hardware and software provision relative to the organization’s needs.
• Progress toward a shared CMDB to support asset and service management functions.
• Asset Management capabilities for organizations pursuing ISO 19770 / ITIL objectives.

IT Asset Manager Pro: Solution Highlights

• PC Discovery, PC Hardware Inventory and PC Software Inventory
• Software Usage Monitoring
• Policy-driven Application Package Policy Manager (PPM)
• Network Device Discovery and Mapping
• Drill-down, Web-based reports, organized in sets around your business needs.
• A set of reports focussed on Microsoft Windows OS and applications, suitable for response to a Microsoft SAM engagement or license audit.
• Supports LAN-connected and remote Web-connected PCs
• One-shot audit mode for Inventory only

IT Asset Manager Pro: Solution Components

• PC Discovery
• Network Device Discovery and Mapping
• PC Hardware Inventory
• PC Software Inventory
• Software Usage Monitoring
• Application Package Policy Manager (PPM)
• Asset Reporting Portal
• Administrator Console
• License Manager Pro (also available standalone)

Complementary Solutions

It Asset Manager Pro: Complementary Solutions

The functionality in AM Pro is also available broken out into three more narrowly focussed solutions.

• License Manager Pro is available standalone as well as integrated with Asset Manager Pro, and can be integrated with other structured software inventory databases.
• IT Asset Discovery and Mapping provides the discovery and regular inventory of desktop and network assets, complete with network location mapping.
• The Software License Compliance and Optimization solution focuses on software inventory, and adds continuous software usage monitoring and the Application Package Policy Manager (PPM). PPM enables you to estimate your application license requirements and then compares the ideal with the reality of your current deployed software.

Looking for efficient (re)deployment of applications and application updates? Want this capability tightly integrated with your foundation asset management tool? Evaluate the combination of conventional software distribution and advanced application streaming in Vector’s Software Provisioning Pro Solution, or focus on the background application update and patching capabilities of Vector Software Distribution.

Organizations concerned with the security of their assets and data are increasingly turning to Vector for an RFID based tracking solution, tightly integrated into AM Pro’s foundation asset management database. Each Vector Asset Locator installation is customized to the customer’s campus, asset mix and security issues.

“Software usage data from Vector’s Asset Manager Pro drives our license cost reduction strategy and saves us thousands of dollars every year.”

Ray L, Analyst/PC Systems