Most organizations can save up to 30% of their IT costs through effective inventory and software management. The key is to implement a sustainable and cost-effective solution which provides visibility of all your hardware and software assets.

The Inventory & Software Management solution can help you control your costs by:

• Providing automated asset discovery:
  Improve your visibility of the network and easily track mobile devices. Automatically inventory assets on your network including servers, desktops, laptops, non-OS devices such as printers and mobile devices which infrequently connect to your network. Scheduled scans automatically categorize newly discovered devices into device groups based on pre-defined policies using agent-based or agentless discovery.
  
• Optimizing configuration compliance
  Reduce service or network disruptions by ensuring your assets comply with your defined IT standards. Policy definitions allow you to define actions to be automatically taken on devices to ensure compliance to your IT configuration standards. Non-compliant devices are quickly detected and immediately reconfigured based on the remediation policy you define.
  
• Facilitating Migration Planning and Execution
  Significantly reduce the time and resources required to plan and migrate devices to new applications or operating systems. Dynamic device groups can identify all known computers by specific parameters to define the target migration pool and software packages can be distributed on a scheduled basis to phase in migration across the network. For example, Windows XP clients can be identified within the device group for migration to Windows 7 over the weekend in batches of one hundred. Migration status reports are reported in real time and failed attempts are identified for exception handling and reverted back to a pristine configuration.
  
• Ensuring software license compliance
  Eliminate costs due to software license non-compliance by tracking the number of allowed and available licenses per application.
  
• Optimizing software usage
  Eliminate the purchase of duplicate application licenses. Software metering allows you to track the actual usage of any given application and provides you with the flexibility to re-deploy unused software licenses to other users.

The Inventory & Software Management solution consists of Numara Inventory Manager and Numara Deployment Manager which are part of the integrated Numara Asset Management Platform (NAMP). NAMP empowers IT organizations to increase service levels, improve performance and reduce costs by automating IT asset management. Learn more about the additional IT Asset Management products included in NAMP.