Configuration & Asset Management

Photo of EM7 Appliance Control costs, manage inventory, and improve IT asset utilization.

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Integrated asset management records are populated by auto-discovery and additional manual entry to provide a centralized asset inventory.

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Configuration and asset management has become a critical IT discipline to control costs, manage inventory, and improve IT asset utilization across the enterprise. The objective is to manage the asset lifecycle from request through decommission. An effective asset management system should include efficient and flexible reporting, process control enforcement and a centralized tracking system - all working together to determine the true cost of asset ownership. EM7 solutions for enterprise asset management software tracking provide integrated management and share a common data repository, which greatly simplifies asset and configuration management efforts and increases user efficiency.

EM7 Asset Management (PDF)

Key Features

  • Auto-Discovery:
    Tracks and regularly updates hardware configurations and software installations/licenses
  • Automatic notification for warranty and policy service expiration
  • Vendor Database:
    Centralized vendor management system automatically links to managed assets
  • Integrated with Ticketing System:
    For audit log of changes for retired or re-provisioned hardware and software licenses
  • Software compliance reports

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Software Exclusion Report shows automated inventory of software, versions and patches installed on all networked machines.

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Software Compliance Reports

EM7 Configuration Management enables managers to provide complete reports about the status and usage of any software title used within your organization. Through auto-discovery and / or operator insertion, software titles, license keys, usages, vendors and organizations can be linked and recorded. When a software license is retired or re-provisioned, EM7 helps you provide evidence and an audit log of changes through EM7's embedded ticketing system.

When changes are made within your enterprise, those changes are automatically replicated to EM7. An example is when a software title is removed from a system; the next time auto-discovery runs, EM7 will be updated to reflect this. EM7 Registry and Reporting allows you to easily search for software titles - running services and processes, version numbers or even software patches.

Key Benefits

    thumbnail of assets report - click for full-size imageAutomated asset inventory generates quick and easy asset reports.

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  • Improved asset utilization
  • Lower leasing costs and penalties
  • Reduced cost of compliance
  • Streamlined change management
  • Enhanced quality of service
  • Complete lifecycle management