Effective management of a large-scale, distributed IT environment begins with an accurate view of the hardware and software assets deployed throughout the enterprise. However, most IT organizations have a fragmented view of their environment, cobbled together with data from Finance, HR, physical asset inventories, and best guess estimates. As a result, virtually all IT organizations suffer from the same inefficiencies: hardware and software overbuys, renewing maintenance contracts for unused assets, inaccurate financial reporting on asset inventories, and poor help desk responsiveness due to an inaccurate view of what’s actually in their enterprise.
Key Features & Benefits: A discovery and repository solution for complex, distributed IT environments, utilizing the most accurate and comprehensive auto-discovery technology available. Automatically capturing detailed configuration and component inventory information on every IT asset in the enterprise, including hardware (servers, desktops, laptops, network and SNMP devices, PDAs, etc) and software (installations, usage patterns, configuration changes), Asset Tracking Edition provides a comprehensive physical blueprint of the whole organization. Opsware benefits Compliance Reporting by enabling IT organizations to accurately track and report on enterprise wide hardware and software asset deployment and utilization, a necessary requirement for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations or corporate standards compliance. Maximize Asset Utilization enables IT organizations to reduce asset expenses resulting from hardware and software overbuying, unnecessary maintenance renewals, and underutilization of idle and redundant assets. Improved Service Levels provides help desk staff with detailed visibility into current and historical hardware and software configuration and usage information, aiding in rapid problem diagnosis, trouble-
shooting and resolution.
Highlights: Asset Tracking Edition tracks changes to those assets over time via automatically scheduled inventories. Its rich repository of current and historical asset information is easily accessible via a Web-based reporting interface that provides simple, one-click reports as well as complex query construction, enabling extensive data mining to answer business-critical questions about IT assets under management
Opsware Inc.
599 N. Mathilda Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA
Tel: (408) 744-7300
Fax: (408) 744-7383
www.opsware.com
