Unlock the business value in your Microsoft SMS investment

Many of our customers are using Microsoft System Management Server ("SMS") to manage their IT inventory, software deployment and patch management. Microsoft SMS does a great job in taking IT inventory across windows machines, but does not provide an end-to-end IT Asset Management solution. Key parts of IT Asset Management such as managing and accounting for all the software licenses, consolidating inventory against licenses owned, managing software usage policies and detecting IT risks are not easily provided by Microsoft SMS. This is where SAManage comes into play.

SAManage extends Microsoft SMS’s capabilities and provides an on-demand, easy to use IT Asset Management solution. The key added value that SAManage provides on top of your SMS investment include:

1. Cleanses your inventory (removing patches, drivers and service packs), making your inventory easy to understand and take action on.
2. Organize software licenses and IT contracts in a central repository, keep track of terms, quantities and renewals.
3. Consolidate inventory against software licenses to validate software usage policies and license compliance.
4. Detect risks to your assets such as illegal software (games, file sharing and other software applications that does not belong in a corporate environment).
5. Ensures ongoing software license compliance and IT governance.

The challenge

The business benefit