Network Software Inventory

Collecting information about the software assets and software usage even in a mid-size company can become a pain for a network administrator. Coming to each and every computer to calulate software packages installed and then manually comparing the collected information to the number of licenses for each software package the company owns takes significant time. However, the results of this job become outdated immediately after the job is finished since employees can install new software packages immediately after the IT auditor left their desk.

What is the soltion for this problem? Is it possible to audit the company software assets in a reasonable time and then maintain this information up-to-date without spending too much resources on this maintenance?

The answer is simple: network software inventory. You need a computer program that will access each and every corporate computer thru the network, calculate software installed and send the collected information to a central location for analysis. This is what we call network software inventory, and this is what our Asset Tracker for Networks product does.