Software Management Suite 2007

Software Management Suite is an extensive SAM solution. The solution includes a discovery tool, an inventory tool, a procurement tool and an optional metering tool. License experts and organizations are using Software Management Suite for SAM projects for years. The approach is to keep track of software- and license-Assets.
For an efficient planning of investment decisions all organizations need to know which assets are in use especially which software is installed. Frequent enterprise wide scanning of computers and servers is the basis for intelligent budgeting, optimized licensing and efficient investments.

Software Management Suite is made for this approach.

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SMOmonitor - Monitoring/Metering

SMOmonitor journalizes the individual software usage as an add-on to Software Management Suite and helps to identify unnecessary and therefore economical inefficient software installations. Once installed SMOmonitor records every start and stop of executables.

After a report you at least have the knowledge and can decide if specific licenses should be used for other purposes.