The number of PCs and workstations owned by corporations increases every year, and the overhead of managing IT asset information, including hardware and software assets, has become significant.

Many corporations manage IT asset information by department according to purpose, such as device information managed by the system management department, network information managed by the network management department, and maintenance contract information managed by the resources department. Also, individual tools and databases are used for gathering and managing information, and formats vary between different management departments. Having the various departments manage IT asset information individually while maintaining a record of everything in a variety of different formats requires a large amount of overhead and costs.

Furthermore, if the improper use of licenses were to become public knowledge, adverse impacts on business are unavoidable, due to the damage to the corporation's reputation. To prevent this, it is essential that software licenses be properly managed not only to reduce costs but also to protect against copyright violations.

To address these issues concerning corporate IT asset management, there is a need for an asset management system that can handle IT assets efficiently. By using Asset Information Manager to construct your asset management system, you can handle your corporate IT assets efficiently and solve any existing issues concerning asset management.

An asset management system using Asset Information Manager allows you to centrally manage collected corporate IT asset information, as well as view that information from various perspectives. More specifically, all IT asset information, including information on both hardware and software assets, as well as information on network devices and maintenance contract information, can be stored in a database and centrally managed. This improves the efficiency of asset management tasks and reduces management costs associated with stocktaking and with introducing and transferring devices.

To protect IT devices against the threat of computer viruses, security measures must be systematically and exhaustively established and maintained on every device throughout the entire system. Asset Information Manager allows you to detect devices to which the latest patches or virus definition files have not been applied. Such devices can be detected by using a variety of management information associated with the devices.

To further strengthen security measures, you must regularly check for actions that might lead to the unauthorized information leaks, in order to protect against unexpected situations, such as the undesired disclosure of internal company information. By using logs to centrally manage each device from Asset Information Manager operation windows, Asset Information Manager can be a valuable tool in tracing and investigating causes that lead to the occurrence of such problems.

Asset Information Manager allows you to detect and investigate PC operations or operations that might lead to the disclosure of information that is in conflict with the risk management policies outlined by the company. Asset Information Manager allows you to follow up leads based on changes in the number of particular incidents detected for each group, and it allows you to quantitatively evaluate statuses in order to establish the most appropriate IT asset management practices while improving the effectiveness of constraints being imposed for adhering to company standards.

Asset Information Manager uses a Web browser to manage IT asset information. Because no special program is required, you can manage your IT assets by logging into Asset Information Manager from anywhere.

Users other than the administrator can also use the information in the database to check their PC information and the status of licenses for installed software programs.