Software piracy — whether intentional or accidental — can
bring civil or criminal penalties. Software inventory management is critical at any organization and not just
because of the risk of possible fines. Avoid purchasing unnecessary licenses by tracking your organization’s actual requirements. If your needs are less than the licenses you’ve purchased, then you are paying too much!

Absolute's software inventory management tools automate and centralize a process that was time-consuming and laborious just a few years ago.

• Track machines as they change hands or move around within your organization
• Know where your leased computers are and when they are due back
• Track your hardware and software inventory and ensure license compliance
• Create predefined alerts to manage users who are operating outside corporate policies
• Automatically detect unauthorized software and hardware installations
• Proactively diagnose problems remotely to identify preventative maintenance tasks and reduce help desk costs
• Monitor asset data changes by machine
• Use reports to plan and budget for individual or company-wide upgrades, migrations and machine retirement

By using Absolute's Software Inventory Management tool to perform regular and accurate checks of every computer in an organization, IT can ensure they stay onside with software compliance issues, and avoid problems with the Business Software Alliance (BSA) or other local authorities. Whether an organization is oversubscribed (and thereby running afoul of such software governing bodies), or undersubscribed (and thus not optimizing their software investment), Computrace^® can help organizations large and small with software inventory management.

Surrey Schools Uses AbsoluteTrack for Software Inventory Management

 “At Surrey School District, we use AbsoluteTrack to verify software license compliance on each machine, perform lifecycle management and execute our annual ‘true up’, which is essentially an inventory count of CPU levels, base bar and licensing,” says Dan Turner, IT Director at Surrey School District. “With over 100 schools in the District, the true up was an annual headache for my team of 55 in IT services.”

“CAAST (Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft) has been known to levy some serious fines against institutions that do not take software license regulations seriously – and not just corporations, but school districts as well,” says Turner. “AbsoluteTrack has become a critical tool in allowing us to help the schools ensure they stay onside with software compliance, because we can look at our daily reports for verification.”

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With Computrace, your IT department can automate the previously time-consuming process of software inventory management. From avoiding prosecution or fines to optimizing software license purchases across your organization, the benefits of Computrace software inventory management tools are legion.

For more information on how to effectively manage your software licenses, call our sales team at 1.800.220.0733

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