The WinINSTALL Desktop Management Suite and Desktop Availability Suite provide much more than traditional IT asset tracking. While asset management is a benefit of the new inventory management functions we now provide new ways to allow inventory to help you manage the availability of machines.

On the software side you can obtain an inventory of all applications installed on the machine, inventory on all MSI packages introduced to the database and all the files on the machine. You now have a complete “bill of materials” of all your machines. Now that you have a very complete file level and application level inventory many new capabilities are available.

With a single click you can see the relationship of files to applications viewed right in the WinINSTALL console. WinINSTALL can even tell you when an applications file is missing! This is possible through the relationship of packages to real file level inventory.

Custom asset tracking fields may be used within the asset management capability of WinINSTALL for the inventory of non-scanable assets such as projectors, desks, chairs, etc.

Hardware and Software Inventory can be more than a one time event

• Automatically recognizes tens of thousands of hardware and software products—
• Discovers and reports on network devices, including printers, hubs, routers, faxes and many more
• Real file level inventory
• Capture and record each machine’s IP address and subnet mask
• Serial number tracking
• RAM slot tracking
• Shows relationship between applications/files used by application
• Recognizes and reports on hot fixes and security patches
• Lists virus engines and virus definition files
• Inventory process runs “OnDemand” or can be easily customized
• Unlimited user-defined fields allow collection of important corporate data
• Multiple scheduling options (daily, weekly, monthly, etc)
• Tracks asset history and trends
• Multiple inventory kick-off options
• Hundreds of built in reports and real-time queries
• Integrates well with popular help desks for problem resolution

License Compliance

The seamless integration of WinINSTALL's inventory and license compliance features allows you to obtain a detailed software inventory of installed and not installed software applications throughout your network. New reports provide compliance information that show licenses owned versus how many are installed and how many have been used over the past period of time.

No other inventory product available provides this detailed and useful information.

A large number of reports are provided within WinINSTALL that covers both asset management reporting as well as other useful information on the comprehensive database that the WinINSTALL Desktop Management Suite and Desktop Availability Suite holds.

WinINSTALL ships with MSDE which will provide ample support for evaluation and test environments as well as companies with small numbers of users and machines. For enterprise support, Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases are supported.

The WinINSTALL database is a powerful new foundation for managing all of your network machines and is the center of integration for all packaging, distribution, asset management, state management and reporting. Never before has a database provided this type of integration for Windows management. License compliancy enables accurate software license reporting to help ensure compliance with corporate policies, governmental regulations, and software license agreements

Why Pay for a Stand Alone License Compliance Product?

The WinINSTALL license compliance features are designed to take advantage of asset management data and helps take the uncertainty out of license compliance. Our license compliance:

• Lets IT departments easily compile statistics about installed software applications, used applications against the licensed count on desktops and laptops across the enterprise
• Verify license compliance and reduce or eliminate the costs of software licensing audits and violations through easily accessible, up-to-the-minute reports on actual application usage
• Tracks license costs
• Allows enterprises to gain control of their software costs through automatic software usage monitoring
• Indicates if the licenses are being used and how often
• Reconciles installations with purchases
• Integrates with WinINSTALL’s software distribution function to uninstall over-distributed and under-utilized applications based on business requirements, monitor license compliance and reduce licensing costs
• Graphic reporting on the percentages of uninstalled applications, unknown usage, inactive use, and active uses of the license