Software Asset Management

Software Asset Management

Software License Management

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus scans your network and automatically discovers all software available in each of the workstations. Asset Managers can easily ensure compliance by keeping a check on list of compliant, under licensed and over licensed software.

• Installed software
  ServiceDesk Plus scans your network and automatically discovers all software available in each of the workstations.
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• It helps you understand how many installations of software are available in your network.
  
  
• paid Software
  Classify all paid software as Managed to effectively focus on software license management. ServiceDesk Plus offers other software types that help you group scanned software as Freeware, Open source, Shareware, Prohibited, and Excluded.
  
  
• Software Licenses
  ServiceDesk Plus scans and fetches Microsoft Windows and Office Keys during IT inventory audit. Key-in all the licenses that you have purchased earlier, ServiceDesk Plus will match the discovered license and license in store automatically in the next scan.
  
• ServiceDesk Plus helps you track software licenses on an ongoing basis when you mange purchases through the PO module.
  
  
• Software Compliance
  ServiceDesk Plus helps you to easily track and ensure that your installed software does not exceed purchased software. It gives a software violation warning when installation exceeds purchase. Asset Managers to purchase new software licenses or uninstall existing installations to ensure compliance.
  
  
• Continuous Software Compliance
  As anyone can install software in the network, the software compliance you tried to get in place can be violated anytime. ServiceDesk Plus's scheduled scans monitors software compliance and alerts you via email when someone violates it. Software Violation alerts helps you to take immediate action and ensure compliance on a on-going basis.

Ensure Software Compliance

ServiceDesk Plus tracks purchased versus installed licenses helping you to ensure software license compliance. The Scheduled scan alerts you when an unauthorized software installation is detected, ensuring software compliance on an on-going basis.

Software Usage Tracking

ServiceDesk Plus gathers information on how often installed software is used and classifies software as Frequently Used, Occasionally Used and Rarely Used Software.

Based on Software Usage Tracking reports Asset Managers can take informed decisions while purchasing or renewing licensed software.