Dynamic Audit of all Hardware and Software on the Corporate Network.

FrontRange Discovery's unique hybrid audit technology ensures that, no matter where in the world IT assets are located, whether they are physical or virtual, or which platform they are running on, IT and business managers have immediate access to a full network inventory for the entire organization.

What’s more, FrontRange Discovery is always keeping an eye on the network assets – and will automatically recognize new hardware and software and add them to the comprehensive IT asset repository – all with no manual intervention.

Whether the aim is to take control of software licensing, drive down IT costs or ensure that projects are brought in on time and under budget, FrontRange Discovery provides a baseline of dynamically-updated asset information across the entire network.

Why FrontRange Discovery?

No other IT audit solution offers the breadth and depth of auditing features required maintain full visibility and control of the network

• 100% asset visibility – discover all IP-addressable hardware on the network, including PCs, servers, switches, network printers and other devices
  
  NEW! -  Virtual Audit  – discover and track virtual hardware and software, supporting VMWare and Microsoft virtualization technologies
  
  
• NEW! -  Thin Client Audit  – identify software published on XenApp 4.5 and 5.0 servers
  
  
• Unmatched software audit – find and audit all software (including suite packages) installed on the network,track software usage. 
  
  
• Dynamic inventory – know about changes to the network as they happen, without the need for scheduled audits
  
  
• Multi-platform – track hardware and software across all major enterprise platforms, including Windows (now with Windows 7 & 2008), Linux,
  Unix, Mac OS X (including 10.5 & 10.6) and AIX
  
  
• Remote auditing – keep tabs on all IT assets anywhere in the organization, whether in the head office, branch location or remotely-connected to the network
  
  
• Multi-user web reports - share audit information with multiple colleagues and create personalized web-based views of key reports

Reduce Software Costs & Avoid Compliance Risks with FrontRange SAM Suite

The price of mis-managing software is high. Typically, organizations over-spend on software licensing by around 20 percent (purchasing duplicate licenses, failing to re-harvest, buying outside of volume license agreements etc) and the cost of reacting to a software audit can be as high as $500,000* if you don’t already have Software Asset Management (SAM) practices and technologies in place. [“Gartner Research: “Q&A on Dealing with a Software Audit” November 2008]

FrontRange SAM Suite is designed to help organizations take control of software assets, licenses and the ongoing management of applications on the network.   SAM Suite provides a complete end-to-end solution for software asset management, comprising:

• Total network visibility with class-leading software audit and hardware inventory 
• Software asset optimization with usage tracking 
• Centralized license repository (with automated entitlement validation) 
• Dynamic ‘best-fit’ reconciliation of licenses against installed software 
• Automated software packaging, testing and deployment 
• Single-screen configuration management for software assets 

With market-leading Discovery technology, an innovative and powerful license management interface, unparalleled automation capabilities, and a powerful SAM project management toolset, FrontRange SAM Suite provides all the best practices and tools necessary to manage the proof of entitlement to utilize software assets in line with the Microsoft SAM Optimization Model (SOM), ISO 19770-1 and ITIL standards.

 

There is no shortage of good reasons to take a fresh look at how your organization manages the software on the network.  In almost all cases, end user organizations will be both under and over-licensed on different applications – creating both a compliance risk and an unnecessary over-spend.

FrontRange SAM Suite addresses both these critical issues:

Eliminating Over-Spend

With FrontRange SAM Suite, organizations can drive out unnecessary costs by:

• Re-harvesting unused applications
• Better visibility and allocation of existing licenses
• Identifying and stopping maverick purchases
• Improving negotiations with software vendors
• Connecting the IT and Finance departments with a common management interface

Minimizing Compliance Risks

With industry analysts now stating that 56 percent of organizations should expect at least one audit per year, software license compliance is a critical business issue.  FrontRange SAM Suite helps organizations manage compliance by:

• Auditing all software on the network
• Creating a consolidated repository for licenses
• Reconciling licenses against installed software to provide an effective compliance position
• Highlighting where under-used assets can be re-deployed to improve the compliance position

Bringing together People, Processes & Technology

Unlike other SAM tools, FrontRange SAM Suite acknowledges that effective software asset management isn’t just about the technology; it’s about putting together the right project plan, the right processes and getting the support of the right stakeholders across the business.

To this end, FrontRange SAM Suite includes the unique SAM Essentials project management application, providing you with documented best practices and SAM project plans.   SAM Essentials helps you scope, plan and execute the SAM project, getting the most out of the FrontRange SAM technologies along the way.

Manage Software Assets, Licensing & Compliance

FrontRange (formerly Centennial) License Manager radically simplifies the task of managing software assets and licenses, with a single solution for discovering software on the network, recording and

validating license entitlements, and creating a dynamic best-fit reconciliation.

License Manager Benefits:  

• Drive down costs – prevent over-payments, unnecessary purchases or inflated maintenance agreements by accurately reconciling usage against entitlement.
• Avoid risks – establish and maintain software license compliance by ensuring that software usage does not exceed licenses held. Prove compliance with accurate reports.
• Optimize utilization of available assets – track software usage, patch status, location and licensing conditions to make full use of all available software
• Improve IT governance – manage the complete lifecycle of software assets, from procurement to disposal

To extend your software license management into true Software Asset Management (SAM) learn more about FrontRange SAM Suite [link to SAM Suite page] and its SAM project management and application deployment solutions.

Why FrontRange License Manager?

License Manager is the most intuitive, flexible solution for managing desktop license compliance across the organization:

• NEW! – Bulk import of licensing data – save time with simultaneous uploading of multiple licensing records
  
  
• NEW! – Support for company-wide licensing agreements – manage licensing models such as Microsoft Enterprise Agreements
  
  
• Integrated software discovery – License Manager includes the FrontRange Discovery solution to provide timely and accurate software inventory information from across the network
  
  
• NEW! – For organizations already invested in Microsoft SMS 2003, License Manager can now take an audit feed directly from this solution.
  
  
• License capture wizards – simply follow on-screen instructions to provide a full audit trail of your software license entitlement and cross reference to the physical evidence.
  
  
• Automatic Vendor SKU recognition – no need for manual matching of invoice items to vendor SKUs (where applicable) reducing the risk of transposition errors or other inaccuracies.
  
  
• Upgrade & downgrade rights management – intelligent rules for automatically calculating software upgrade and downgrade rights
  
  
• Multiple OUs and sites – manage multiple organizational units and office locations through a single system
  
  
• Enterprise role-based SAM – create multiple data entry users to capture proof of entitlement in the field while ensuring only the approved compliance manager/s are able to access the current license compliance position for each vendor.
  
  
• Easy export options – populate Licensing Statements and other forms quickly with live data from License Manager