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Express Software Manager is a powerful suite that integrates PC inventory, purchasing data, software usage tracking, and application control (Professional edition only) — all into one easy-to-use hardware and software asset management solution. Comprehensive IT asset reports give you exactly the information required by both IT and business decision-makers, as well as the insight you need to keep your network running smoothly and avoid common vulnerabilities within the desktop environment. Express Software Manager was designed for Windows desktop and server environments, and includes support for Windows Terminal Server/Citrix applications.

Express Software Manager is comprised of two products (Express Inventory & Express Meter), each offering functionality critical to maintaining visibility and control over your IT assets.

Express Meter

  • Compare software usage patterns with maintenance contracts, ensuring you pay only for support or upgrades you really need.
  • Identify unused or underutilised software, so you can reallocate unused licenses and negotiate licensing agreements that match end-user needs.
  • Monitor and restrict usage for concurrently-licensed applications.
  • Control application launches to lock out undesired or non-standard applications.
  • Limit access to sensitive applications only to authorised individuals.
  • Meter software usage in both Windows and Terminal Server/Citrix environments, as well as among mobile or desktop users—even when they're not connected to the network.

Express Inventory

With Express Inventory, you can:

  • Identify unlicensed copies of installed software, so you can protect your company from piracy penalties and lawsuits.
  • Track down unauthorised or harmful applications that may pose a risk to data security or productivity.
  • Determine PC readiness and predict costs for technology migrations.
  • Extend software and hardware inventory and configuration data to help desk staff for troubleshooting remote PC issues.

Collect virtually unlimited data about your desktop assets or servers, including:

  • Software inventory data such as name, product ID, size, date, path, version, and whether the installation is standalone or part of a suite.
  • Hardware inventory information such as computer name, manufacturer, CPU type and speed, memory, available disk space, network card address and manufacturer, serial number, and any custom hardware parameters you specify.
  • Purchasing details such as number of licenses, serial numbers, maintenance or lease expiration dates, purchase order details, and any additional parameters you specify.
  • All the above data for remote sites and mobile users.
Tracking IT assets
  • Inventory all desktop hardware and software assets installed across your network
  • Match inventoried assets with associated purchasing data

Ensuring license compliance

  • Reconcile installed licenses with imported purchasing data
  • Determine where license deficits exist so corrective action can be taken
  • Ensure ongoing license compliance
  • Conduct automated license reconciliations
  • Meter and control use of concurrent licenses (Professional edition only)
  • Monitor SPLA license models

Reducing IT spending

  • Identify unused licenses to avoid paying for unnecessary licenses and their associated support and upgrade costs

Improving desktop security

  • Find newly-installed software
  • Identify the presence and use of software that may pose a risk
  • Control application launches among harmful programs (Professional edition only)
  • Restrict access to applications containing sensitive data (Professional edition only)

Improving help desk service levels

  • Extend on-demand software and hardware configuration data to support agents for troubleshooting remote PC issues

Upgrading to Vista

  • Determine which PCs do not meet Vista's hardware requirements
  • Identify software that may not be compatible with Vista

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