SYNC Pro: Your SAM, Licensing and Audit Partner.
Features and Benefits
SYNC Pro can be deployed to collect information in various ways, depending on the IT infrastructure - an ideal tool for multi-vendor environments.
SYNC Pro...
- Does not require any client installation
- Can collect information via scheduled collections
- Can collect information on demand
- Can collect information via dial-ups
- Can manually collect information for stand-alone machines
- Collects information in about 7 seconds
SYNC Pro is your scalable solution...
Because of SYNC Pro's flexibility and scalability the solution can be used in different scenarios:
- As a complete IT Asset Management solution
- As part of your Software Asset Management (SAM) solution
- As a once-off audit tool
- As a pre-sales tool for outsource partners
- As part of the due diligence process
- As part of a service level agreement
- As part of corporate governance processes to satisfy best practice initiatives such as Sarbanes Oxley
The Features:
The SYNC Pro product was designed to enable the user to automatically obtain vital information about all the workstations and servers on a network without affecting the performance of the workstations, servers, or networks.
- Automatically discover hardware and software inventory information
- Reports on extended hardware information from SMBIOS interrogation
- Audit and monitorsoftware usage for licence compliance
- Automatically gather additional customised details via dialog prompts on demand.
- Comprehensive range of standard management reports
- Export facility to facilitate to facilitate reporting in another tool set for report customisation
- Windows based front-end for information management
- Custom data cleansing and data editing utility
- Comprehensive Network IP Probe facility
- Schedule remote executions or software uninstall
- Direct message send facility
- Track movement of PC through the organisation
Business Benefits
- Ensures good corporate IT Governance
- Addresses Risk Management in the IT environment
- Provides detailed management information to assist policies and procedures that support best practices such as ITIL, CobIT and Sarbanes Oxley
- Reduces total cost of ownership by providing a Comprehensive Configuration Management Database and utilisation reporting.
- Reduces IT costs by streamlining processes and providing remote management capabilities
- Keeps check on software expenditure
- Provides information for mapping upgrade paths and calculating upgrade budgets
- Avoids licence violation exposures by providing accurate reports of installed software
- Reduces the risk of component shrinkage by providing reports on missing components
- Ensures optimal utilisation of IT assets Ensures optimum insurance cover is taken by providing accurate asset details, thereby protecting the company's investment.
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