SAMLite 4.0

For most organizations, technology assets such as servers, desktops, and the software installed on them are a significant investment. Typically organizations understand how to manage physical assets, such as servers and other network devices. However many organizations struggle to find effective ways of managing other electronic assets, such as software in a cost effective manner.

SAMLite Version 4.0 is perfect for Software Asset Management.

• Secure your environment
  Identify risky installations and ensure usage of important software patches.
  
  
• Manage legal liabilities and license compliances
  Detect software installations and removals. Track the use of illegal and unauthorized software.
  
  
• Reconcile Software Procurement
  Match software purchases with software currently in use in a single click.
  
  
• Comprehensive Reporting
  Use the search capabilities, graphical reports or simply export to Microsoft Excel to create the report that you need.
  
  
• Plan your software usage
  Reliably use SAMLite data to plan for software upgrades, maintenance programs and purchase budgets.

Traditional methods of auditing and controlling software like other assets are labor intensive and expensive. Many of the more sophisticated automated solutions are expensive and complex to install and maintain.

Enter SAMLite, a solution developed to take away the pain of managing software, in an easy to deploy and easy to administer manner. Developed in 1999, the objective of SAMLite was to give organizations an alternative to tedious physical auditing methods, and expensive and complex software methods.

SAMLite typically takes less than a week to deploy and capture the installed software data on all desktops and servers. Because there are no active agents installed on your machines, you can rest assured knowing that it will not impact any existing applications. SAMLite a solution developed to take away the pain of managing software, in an easy to deploy and easy to administer manner.

Developing since 1999, the objective of SAMLite was to give organizations an alternative to tedious physical auditing methods, and expensive and complex software methods.

• Fast and Unattended Audit Collection
  SAMLite is a lightweight solution that caters for rapid deployment with simplicity in mind. It has all the core implementation of software asset management functions.
  
  
• Automated Machine and Software Detection
  SAMLite will allow for on demand inventory of PCs, Servers and software installed. This function is useful beyond software asset management as it returns relevant information for new systems development and deployment.
  
  
• Classification of Data into Views
  The SAM Administration Console caters for classification of data into views for easy and relevant. Machines can be classified into Departments, and Software can be classified into categories or by manufacturer in a simple select and assign function.
  
  
• Assignment of Cost to Software
  SAMLite provides IT managers with an interface to assign software cost associated with each piece of software. Reports on software investment by either departments or at an enterprise level can then be generated.
  
  
• Tracking of Software Purchases
  Purchases of software can be centrally tracked together with license information through SAMLite. This solves the common problem of not knowing now many copies of particular software have been bought and the problem of not knowing its associated license and CD-KEY information.
  
  
• Tracking of Software Installations and Removals
  Both authorized and unauthorized software installation and removal can be detected using SAMLite. This provides IT managers with a database of what software is authorized to be installed on which machines.
  
  
•  Reconciliation Reporting
  Based on the automated software discovery feature of SAMLite, and data from the software purchase and installation/removal tables, the solution can generate a reconciled report describing the real environment of how many unauthorized installations (and removals) were made and the cost associated to that.
  
  
• Intuitive Administration Console
  The SAM Administration Console is designed with ease of use in mind. You can simply browse and drill down on what software is installed on a particular machine, or browse and drill down on where a particular piece of software has been installed on. This enables administrators and management know the instant information and how many copies of a particular piece of software are installed at any time.
  
  
• Sample Policies and Procedures for Software Asset Management
  SAMLite provides much more than many of the software auditing tools currently on the market, because it covers the entire software management lifecycle, from software procurement, through to installation, monitoring, and eventual removal of software. The product includes a comprehensive package of Software Asset Management policies and procedures as a ‘value-add', however, are not necessary to follow if an organisation simply needs to deploy an effective software auditing tool.

Why SAMLite?

• Easy to deploy

You need not be a rocket scientist to deploy SAMLite. With comprehensive documentations and email support, SAMLite typically takes less than a week to deploy and capture the installed software data on all desktops and servers. Because there are no active agents installed on your machines, you can rest assure knowing that it will not impact any existing applications.

• Dependable and cost effective

With more than 100 clients and growing, SAMLite is the choice for cost effective systems assets management. The administrative overhead of SAMLite is very low. SAMLite can be left running without user intervention for months while the data is collected automatically 24 hours a day. SAMLite is suitable for organizations with as few as 25 PCs, and has been proven to run seamlessly and unintrusively in environments with over 10,000 managed desktops, even across WANs. For all its features, SAMLite is very affordable both in startup and operational costs.

• Easy to use, intuitive and accurate

Designed both for Administrators and end-users, the familiar MMC based Administrative console puts Administrators in control of the company's assets in no time. The SAMLite Web Dashboard offers click and view functionality of ready made dynamic reports. You will never have to give your management an excuse for inaccurate reports anymore.

 • Products supported by SAMLite