70% of organizations have a 30% discrepancy between a planned inventory and their actual inventory (Gartner). Autonomic customers use the expert knowledge gained from proper asset management to realize significant benefits.

With the existing Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, easy extraction of an organization's inventory reports addresses one of the most fundamental requirements for a compliant enterprise. Manual inventory is often difficult to leverage in variable situations.

The cost-savings realized through the implementation of an asset management solution can be as much as 26% of an IT department's overall budget. (GIGA Information Group).

Information improves the efficiency of IT organizations. Reducing time spent on support and maintenance issues, provides more time for innovation and production.

Asset management data improves the control and management of IT assets through details on memory, network devices and physical locations, etc.

Please keep in mind that Autonomic Software’s intelligent agent solutions work exactly the same way in both physical and virtual environments.

• Offered as an integrated solution within ANSA suite, the asset management functions allow users to collect and maintain complete, current and useful IT asset data across the enterprise

• Track IT assets - Detects virtually anything plugged into an Ethernet cable

• Analyze software use - Collect comprehensive information regarding installed software for both long term planning and reclamation

• Monitor unauthorized users - Identify attempts to access proprietary information

• Report compliance - Develop data for internal and external audits

• Resolve user issues - Compile data of current issues

• Hardware and software updates - Plan and target software, OS or file set distributions

• IT standards - Develop, implement and report on enterprise-wide IT standards

• Lease status - Monitor and remove outdated hardware from service

• Diverse platform support - Windows, Linux, Oracle-Linux, Solaris (UNIX), Machintosh (Apple)

• Asset repository database (UNIX), Solaris Oracle-Linux, Linux, Windows, - support platform

• Asset repository database user performance

• Change control notification for install and un-install status

• Database aggregation and query

• Data export for analysis and reporting