BigFix® Inventory can identify an organization’s licensed and unlicensed software with drill-down granularity to track software usage patterns and trends across Windows, Mac OS, UNIX and Linux endpoints. Dramatically reducing the time required to conduct a comprehensive software asset inventory for license reconciliation or compliance purposes, the solution provides valuable insight into what the organization owns—and what it has installed but doesn’t own—along with how often the software is being used in order to support better planning, budgeting and vendor license compliance while mitigating security risk.
The near-instant visibility into enterprise assets provided by BigFix Inventory can be vital to optimizing asset control and operations in the interconnected, instrumented and intelligent technology environments of today’s smarter planet.
Easy to use and centrally managed from a unified console, the solution enables continuous asset assessment and reporting with low total cost of ownership and high return on investment. Not only does BigFix Inventory discover and manage applications—down to the version level—the insights it provides can translate into significant cost savings for organizations that are spending more than necessary on software licensing fees.
BigFix Inventory Highlights:
- Identify licensed and unlicensed software with drill-down granularity to pass more audits, limit security exposures and reduce annual software costs
- Reduce the time, effort and inaccuracy of manual inventory and analysis
- Manage assets on hundreds—or hundreds of thousands—of Microsoft Windows, MacOS, UNIX and Linux endpoints
Reduce asset management costs
Keep track of hardware and software assets across hundreds of thousands of endpoints—even in multi-tenant environments
Simplify asset identification
Streamline software asset identification and reporting by using ISO 19770-2 standard enabled discovery
Be prepared for audits
Ensure audit readiness with discovery for software, processes and file systems and identify unused software
Leverage the cloud
Scale and adapt quickly to changing business needs without compromising security, privacy or risk levels in the cloud
Benefits:
Reduce Cost
Fast deployment and reporting of all hardware and software across hundreds of thousands of endpoints, even in multi-tenant environments
Reduce Administration
Reduce the effort of cross-platform patching, software distribution, OS deployment and migration, server automation, and training costs
Enhance Reporting
Report on the health and compliance of software assets in minutes—regardless of the size of the environment
Scale and Adapt Fast
Leverage the cloud and adapt quickly to changing business needs without compromising security, privacy or risk
Media and Entertainment
Share the same management console and infrastructure with other BigFix applications, and lower administration and operational costs
Reduce Complexity
Discovery for software, processes, and file systems along with hardware usage and metering to help ensure audit readiness