AssetLabs

AssetCheckAudit Data Optimization Service

Determine Corporate Compliancy

Identify ‘real’ Business Software

Fix ‘Raw Data’25% of all inventory is incomplete,with publisher names & versions missing or in the wrong field.AssetCheck corrects missing and incorrect inventory data.

Organize Data for License AnalysisAssetCheck merges data from ‘acquired’ Publishers, so legacysoftware is listed with the new Publisher.Review counts across ‘Product families’ for Enterprise Agreements

Only 5% of inventory data is ‘business’ software.AssetCheck filters out hotfixes, updates, componentsand all other distractions!

AssetCheck will identify games, P2P & other products that cause end-user ‘distractions’

Reduce SAM audit review times by 90%Increase audit & True-up accuracy

‘Raw’ Inventory Data: incorrect, incoherent & costly

Hidden spaces & character causes‘count-split’, forcing manual counts

Title ErrorsMinor version (7.01, 7.02),model version (XP, CS) and values thataren’t numbers (1.0.0.3)make for next-to-impossible analysis.

Version ErrorsToo many ‘Adobe’ like variations;and sometimesno publisher data at all.

Publisher Errors

Software Count Report

What is ‘Raw’ Inventory Data?

What is the problem with ‘Raw’ Inventory Data?

Raw inventory data is the un-modified inventory datacreated during the installation of an application.

Typically, ‘raw’ inventory data includes:Software TitleSoftware VersionPublisher Name

There’s no rules or standards to ensurethat software publishers properly populatetheir ‘installation’ data.

Some publishers put the version within the title,or use many variations of their name,or simply don’t fill in the data at all!

These problems make software reportsa nightmare to use for your license analysis;the final ‘count’ of a software title is fragmented throughout your report (or spreadsheet)causing you to manually search for the software,then and add up the values!

Any error in your calculations will cause you to be ‘under-licensed’,That could lead to unexpected budget ‘impacts’ (for internal audits)or unexpected true-up fees and/or fines (for external audits).

What are the risks?

Using ‘Raw’ Inventory Data for license analysismay cost you....

rebuilds & reorganizes your datausing ‘asset-intelligent’ algorithms

Applications from a publisher that no longer exists automatically merged to the publisher who acquired it.

Normalize all spelling variations (including foreign languages) into a single software title.

Industry First: Auto-fill missing software versions, Publishers and even Software titles!

Another Industry First: software titles are automatically placed into Product Line ‘Family Trees’ for immediate analysis

Convert all model names (CS, XP, etc.), minor versions, etc., into a licensing ‘value’.

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ProductLine ‘Tree’

‘Dark Data’ Correction

Title Correction

Version Correction

Publisher Adoption

PUBLISHER TITLE VERSION

Essbase Server 7.16

Essbase ServerOracle 7

Identify all variations of a publishers name and normalizes them to a common publisher name.

1 Publisher CorrectionApple Computer

Apple, IncApple Corp.

Apple Corporation

APPLE

MacromediaEhelp

HyperionPeopleSoft

ADOBE

ORACLE

7.017.02.4.6

CS2

7

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Outlook Office Outlook

Acrobat Reader Reader

For each publisher, ‘Family Trees’ for each Product Line can be expanded to review

Easily choose between:?Auditable Line of Business?Non-Auditable Line of Business

Each title has a specific license type - grouped by ‘audit’ (volume, retail, etc.) or ‘non-audit (freeware, trial, etc.) as well as a usage type - grouped by ‘business’ (Security, IT Mgmt, Office app) or ‘ Distraction (game, P2P, DVD burning, etc.)

Version ‘Clustering’ - with 84% of installs within 2 versions - suggest support & productivity optimization.

Though Visio 2003 is the standard,147 end-users could upgrade,

No variable ‘pay-per-PC’ fees.

Use your current Inventory tool....

If you don’t have a product that offers PC Inventory, there are several solutions that include PC Inventory as part of their free offerings:

?Spiceworks ?SAManage

If you have a network management or PC Inventory application, all you need is a ‘software title count’ report exported to an ‘XLS’ file.

That’s it. AssetCheck works with network management products like:

?Microsoft SMS & SCCM?Altiris?Landesk

and Service-now.com !

...or use a freeinventory tool

AssetCheck

No Inventory agent to install.

Reduce SAM audit review timesup to 90%Your AssetCheck reports -complete with categorization - are typically ready in 24 hours or less.

Whether you have 500 or 50,000 PCs, the AssetCheck’s sticker price is still the same.

All you need is your ‘software count’ report from your PC inventory or Network Management tool.

Maintain end-user data privacySince there is no PC Inventory required, the details of ‘who-has-what’ remains with you, not us. You maintain end-user privacy.

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AssetLabs offers IT-Risk analytic web-services that empowers corporations - and IT Service providers - to identify business risks (licensing, productivity, security & budgeting risks) via analysis of their software inventory.

Unlike other ‘SAM’ offerings that demand a proprietary inventory for each device, AssetLab’s solutions integrates with your existing PC Management/Inventory tools, saving you time and money.

AssetLabs is co-founded by Steve O’Halloran, the co-founder and ‘architect’ of AssetMetrix; a web-based PC inventory & Asset Intelligence’ service that was offered by Dell, Software Software Spectrum, Compucom, Compugen & SoftChoice. AssetLabs was acquired by Microsoft in 2006.

AssetLabs strives to be the best solution to categorize your IT assets, and deliver cost-saving and risk-reducing services to help you better manage your IT assets.

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