Asset Management
Novell ZENworks Asset Management - Control Your IT Budget
Novell ZENworks® Asset Management helps you improve the accuracy and timeliness of the IT budgeting process. Comprehensive Web reporting with multiple graphing and display options, hundreds of built-in reports and queries, asset history and trend analyses will help you know which licenses and contracts need to be extended. The trends can point you toward future needs which will help in planning IT expenditures. In addition, it will reduce your helpdesk costs by making troubleshooting fast and easy.
It's difficult to overstate the budgetary impact of an efficient, comprehensive asset management solution. Without one, your business is exposed to undue risk with no reliable way to prove licensing compliance. You run the risk of paying for software licenses and maintenance coverage you don't need. Finally, without an asset management system in place, you can't effectively negotiate with vendors because you lack visibility into key dates, terms and conditions and asset usage patterns.
Novell ZENworks Asset Management solves these problems by combining sophisticated network discovery, workstation inventory, software management, software usage and contract management capabilities into one comprehensive asset management solution. With ZENworks Asset Management, you gain a more complete and accurate view of all your IT assets. You can eliminate software overspending because you improve your ability to accurately track and monitor software licenses, installations and compliance.
Match your inventory with your licenses. Before you can successfully manage your software licensing agreements, you need to know exactly what software is running in your organization, maintain a complete, accurate view of all your software licenses, and understand how software inventories and licensing data relate to each other. ZENworks Asset Management simplifies and automates this complex process.
Novell ZENworks® Asset Management does much more than simply inventory your software applications. It also uses sophisticated techniques to make sure your software inventory is complete, normalized and tuned for license compliance, reconciliation and reporting. For instance, software sold in bundles can be defined and tracked to align application discovery to purchasing and licensing information. This unique License View enables you to accurately track and reconcile all the software on your network.
Key Features
- Rolls up point releases and service packs
- Automatically excludes titles with no license implications, such as Adobe Reader
- Ignores individual software components if they were installed as a suite
- Categorizes all software by functional type
- Identifies standalone suite components that were installed outside the suite
- Distinguishes between full, runtime and evaluation editions


