Whitepapers
Asset Manager Pro Solution
IT Asset Manager Pro helps CIOs and IT asset managers to budget, manage and reduce their IT costs, ensure license compliance, and optimize their hardware and software purchases, deployments and lifecycles. AM Pro features accurate software identification and usage measurement, including terminal server applications running on thin client devices. AM Pro can also be bundled with the Web-based License Manager Pro.
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
- Open format database supports data access from external applications via SQL.
- One-shot audit mode for Inventory only
IT Asset Manager Pro: Solution Components
Complementary Solutions
It Asset Manager Pro: Complementary Solutions
The functionality in AM Pro is also available broken out into three more narrowly focussed solutions.
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.