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Automating License Management & IT Asset Tracking

Overview With a dynamically changing, geographically dispersed workforce, and corporate governance requirements, manual processes to track IT assets can be unacceptably time consuming. Learn how to reduce corporate risk, reduce asset management costs, and improve IT service levels with automated license management and IT asset tracking. This informative white paper describes how to proactively reduce costs and improve IT governance with powerful analysis of usage, costs, and compliance for software and hardware assets on desktops, servers, and mobile devices. Find out how ManageSoft IT Business Intelligence automates analysis of vast amounts of asset management data to provide meaningful business insight for IT executives. Learn how to negotiate license agreements effectively, manage license compliance, streamline support, and plan restructures, lease renewals, OS refreshes, and hardware upgrades.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	ManageSoft	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	September 2004	Downloads	608
Format	White Papers
Topics	ERP, Asset Management, CRM, Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing, SLA

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