The economical new deal and evolutions of IT technologies leads the managers of information systems to extend the control of their assets. Today, all the resources have to be monitored, checked, and optimized. These last years, many new standards emerged, enforcing the IT Managers to keep a close control on the assets and organization.
Apsynet Asset Management offers, through a complete technical, administrative and financial management solution of your ITs, the answers about your concerns.
Fully customizable, Apsynet Asset Management meets the requirements of any organization. The solution has been designed in order to be very simple to deploy and exploit. It allows following naturally the evolutions of your needs.

The Inventory: a precise technical view of assets

This is the first but essential step in the process. It implies the deployment of a complete, reliable, and rigorous inventory for both the hardware and software of the company. It gives a precise state of the existing IT to allow any change monitoring. It’s a fully automated reference baseline, from where critical information is updated on a regular frequency.
The IT department masters all data from hardware and software configuration of the company coming from local and remote sites or mobile users.

CMDB : A basic layer to build a complete repository

Beyond the technical data coming from inventory, Apsynet Asset Management offers an unique entry point for every mandatory information in the aim of an optimal exploitation of the company resources, in either financial, organizational, and geographical dimensions.
Thanks to its unique capacity to be linked to external data, these referrers are automatically updated. In this way, it’s possible to synchronize enterprise directories (LDAP, Active Directory, Notes, or any other application), to build an infrastructure integrity control system, and to complete the technical or administrative data from third party tools as updates management, software distribution tools, ERP, etc.

The IT Asset Management: Monitoring the assets lifecycle

Apsynet Asset Management monitors the whole lifecycle of an asset. Even before it is shipped to the company, it has been described by the purchase process.
You will precisely follow the delivery, the assignment, and the installation. For each change during the asset lifecycle, the history of the asset will be traced: user change, repair, loan until the end of the asset life.
It’s even possible to describe the asset’s scrapping stage to comply with the European ecologic directives.

A precise financial management

Apsynet Asset Management manages all the financial aspects of the asset management, built from the budgets definition, the procurement cycle process, and asset’s identity. Each asset owns economical data requirements for: investment simulations, internal or external billing, financial control, budget allotment total cost ownership, suppliers monitoring.

Resources Control

Apsynet Asset Management offers a permanent view of all the assets of the company. You know exactly the hardware and software assigned to each user, service or company. It allows, too, a stock management for any supply or small hardware. You can control any move and can bill the costs to concerned services and budgets.
Apsynet Asset Management gives you the opportunity to consider all kind of (non it) asset, precisely described by a set of characteristics managed like any other resource.

A real software licenses management

Apsynet Asset Management offers perfect solutions for each following issues: it allows an easy consolidation between different sources of information; a precise identification of unused software licenses; a permanent supervision of the availabilities and any gap with the internal rules.
The Return on Investment is immediate: you can reassign any of the unused licenses. You change your procurement strategy according to the real needs of your users. You can negotiate contracts on new perimeters. You are able, at any time, to produce an exact report of all these immaterial assets.

A perfect solution for any users

Apsynet Asset Management becomes the Central Application of the information system department. From the Windows console or Web browser, along with it includes a complete management of the access rights. It offers for each application’s user a customizable portal. The user will be able to use dedicated menus and actions depending on his profile.
Apsynet Asset Management offers a Workflows engine allowing implementing all the processes adapted to each organization.
All these functions, associated with a set of alarms management tools and automates, inside a unique console make of Apsynet Asset Management a powerful solution for control and monitoring.

INVENTORY

• Automatic collection of the hardware and software configuration for PC, Mac and Linux in LAN, WAN, Intranet and Extranet.
• Monitoring the software usage,
• SNMP analysis of the connected equipments on the network.

ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Stock, supplies and small hardware management,
• Description of all non IT infrastructures
• Contracts, loan, rents, warranties and suppliers administrative management,
  

SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT

• Control on installed Assets,
• Knowledge of their usage,
• Usage rights management.
  

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

• Procurement lifecycle : Quotation, Orders and deliveries,
• Value depreciation automatic calculation,
• Assignment and budget monitoring,
• Contracts, Warranties, suppliers administrative management.
  

TECHNOLOGIES

• Graphical Workflows engine,
• Notification and alarms management,
• Dedicated portal for each user,
• Adaptable menus for each profession,
• Dynamical graphic interface,
• Customs wizards to guide in users,
• Personals prints and views,
• Secured access and rights management,
• Evolved graphical queries,
• External tools interfaces,
• Schedule managemen.

OPTIONALS MODULES

• Apsynet Service Desk: Service management solution, in the ITIL practices definition,
  

• Apsynet Request Center: End user requests solution,

• Apsynet Mobile: « Mobility » solution on barcode reader and PDA.
  

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