AssetStudio® - An Enterprise Licence Management and Compliance Solution

AssetStudio® is today’s solution to address the complexities of Software Asset Management to enable a real time Effective Licence Position (ELP) including Terminal Services and Virtualised environments

AssetStudio® is a web based IT asset management, inventory, systems and configuration management suite that integrates with Sostenuto. Through its simple, intuitive interface, AssetStudio® provides you with a powerful tool to control your IT estate more effectively. Using Web 2.0 technologies and a mixture of agent and agent less technologies, AssetStudio® provides all the functionality needed to meet today’s challenges and manage the complete life cycle of all your software assets. 

AssetStudio® gives the IT Administrator the ability to see exactly what their network-hardware and software-consists of, what software is licensed and the ability to re-allocate licenses as required. The tool can actively optimise and manage network assets, creating enormous savings at the same time.

AssetStudio® does not require intensive training and can be installed and active on your network in less than a day. Through the use of the network discovery and software delivery modules, AssetStudio® is capable of giving you return on investment from the moment your first PC is discovered.

AssetStudio® Discovery and Inventory

• Agent based technology that performs detailed hardware and software inventory
• Agentless technology to manage SNMP devices
• Collate enhanced critical information on any Microsoft server applications such as Exchange, SQL, ISA (version, processor type)
• Determine physical and virtual servers to provide an accurate licence position
• Extensible schema for capturing additional asset information
• Archiving policies to retain removed or decommissioned assets
• Ability to recognise thin client devices and accommodate in licence management and compliance
• Management of dynamic virtualised assets (Servers and PCs), simplifying licence management and compliance
• Easy to integrate with third party tools using a simple web interface

AssetStudio® Software Delivery

• Reduce time and free up valuable resources
• Remote deployment of application packages
• Wake on LAN for out-of-hours deployments
• Logging at both client and delivery job level provides detailed progress and error checking
• Dynamic and static grouping of assets allows simplified targeting of systems
• Simple to use, can be used by all areas of the IT Department
• Includes a set of pre-configured application packages

AssetStudio® - Licence Management and Compliance 

• Assign and align software licences and align entitlements to installed software at all levels
• Overcome licence challenges
• Import Microsoft MLS (Claret) reports and automatically reconcile the information
• Central tool for recording licence information
• Track licence allocation by country, organisation or even department
• Automatically assigns and calculates Microsoft Software Assurance upgrade benefits
• Easy to use, intuitive wizard to help add licences