Software Inventory Management

Designed with the aim of simplifying software inventory management and refraining software license compliance breach related information, Lepide Software Asset Management has been stuffed with an option that allows you assign software license with the software installed on a particular computer. Doing this helps the administrator to assign a license category to the tool along with the license serial. For example, if the software is a freeware then there will be no need to specify license key but if the software is shareware then license key shall be in organization's software inventory report. Assigning license keys and category offers following benefits:

• Keeping record of the license keys assigned to software installed on various computers in a network helps keeping record about installed software licenses and remaining software licenses.
• Assigning license category with the software helps analyzing that whether the software has been meeting software license compliance standards or not.
• Helps identifying software installed illegally. Most of the employees often download and install software illegally on their computers for their personal use, which can be dangerous for the organization, as installing software through illegal means may create legal issues for the organization. Such software are detected as un-licensed software by Lepide Software Asset Management tool; therefore, the administrator can take a required action when see un-licensed software installed on any particular machine in the network.

Lepide Software Asset Management tool also facilitates saving list of the licenses assigned along with their categories to multiple computers in network. Mentioned below are the formats in which the license assignment list can be saved using this software inventory management tool:

• Save Assignment List in CSV format.
• Save Assignment List in RTF format.
• Save Assignment List in HTML format.
• Save Assignment List in PDF format.