As environments grow it becomes increasingly difficult to track all of your IT assets.
Not knowing exactly what is in your environment or where it resides can cause problems from both a management and also a financial point of view.
If you are planning an upgrade of your IT hardware without the aid of a dynamic tracking tool, how will you identify which assets need upgrading and more importantly how will you track down their physical location?
Without the aid of an asset tracking tool this would be a costly exercise involving visiting every location on your LAN/WAN, with a member of staff having to record the information manually. How long would this take in your environment?
Also it is worth remembering that a physical audit is out of date the moment an engineer moves away from the machine they are recording, there is no way of knowing if the machines details/config or hardware specs have changed from when you have taken the audit to when you are making a decision based on this static information.
With our preferred asset tracking tool, Centennial Discovery, we are able to help you identify every piece of hardware (and software) attached to your network. We are able to, at the touch of a button, audit every machine in your environment and report on it in granular detail including;
- Hardware Specifications
- Software installed
- Software utilised
- Change history
- Owner
- IP/Mac address
- Physical location
- Compliance (software)
- JPEGS / MP3’s / MP4’s installed
Armed with this information you are able to better manage and support your environment. If your helpdesk staff could answer calls and audit the machine they are investigating would this speed up call ticket resolution? In our experience, it does.
If you are looking to become compliant, or wish to check your current compliance position with your software Vendors, wouldn’t you benefit from being able to tell what software was in your environment, but also wouldn’t it be useful to be able to see if a piece of software is actually utilised by the user before purchasing a licence for it?
If you are looking to upgrade your OS across your environment, surely it would be easier if you were able to identify which assets can run the new OS and which can’t before embarking on such a project?
There are many benefits from having a dynamic auditing tool, and each individual business will extract different value from their chosen tool. If you would like to discuss our auditing tools/services to see how they could benefit your business, then please do not hesitate to contact a member of the team on 01932 232345