Asset Discovery is a tool developed for mapping IT assets in a company, collecting hardware and software information and centralizing it so that you have greater control and visibility of these assets.

It is not necessary to install agents on devices, the tool is installed on a central device, which can be on a general-purpose machine (laptop, desktop) or a server within an organization. This device acts as a hub for gathering information.

What is an IT asset?

IT assets are devices that are part of an infrastructure, which can be a hardware device such as a switch, workstations, routers or software such as an operating system and applications in general.

How it works?

Discovery

Periodic and automated scans are performed to discover assets, collecting data on the type of device, IP address, status of workstations and other devices connected to the network, also allowing the execution of pre-defined actions.

Information extraction

Automatically query and create items, triggers and graphics for each device.

Centralization of results

Um dispositivo é utilizado como ponto central na coleta dos dados, permitindo assim, uma visualização unificada e centralizada das informações.

Complete reports

Autonomy in the generation of reports for the proactive management of the assets connected to your network.

Benefits

Carrying out the collection of information about the hardware and software used by the company brings benefits related to the planning and organization of the corporation.

Cost reduction

• Realization of effective purchases of resources, buying only what is necessary.
• Identifying GAPs and economic risks.
• Software updates without compromising licensing.
• Regularization of resources allocated to servers.
• Asset control.

Improving processes

• Understanding the hardware and software lifecycle.
• Detailed view of your assets.
• Precision migration planning and expected results.

Know the distribution of your equipment

• Daily view of the entire company’s equipment park.
• Distribution of assets across business units.
• Location by country, region and address.

Risk control

• Prevent legal conflicts associated with hardware and software licenses.
• Analysis of unauthorized copies of software.
• Details of installation sources.
• Análise de logs ou componentes de missão crítica da infraestrutura.

These are just some of the benefits that asset lifting can bring to your company.

Mapping Results with Asset Discovery

With Asset Discovery, the IT sector starts to manage the life cycle of hardware and software assets. Simplifying investment analysis and providing visibility into installed tools to achieve compliance in your environments.

The information obtained daily can be integrated with other company systems or made available to large numbers of users.

The mapping brings the vision of the need for software, allowing better negotiations and plans for software renewal and updating.

Reconciling software that is not being used, but that is still maintained, eliminating unnecessary expenses or unnecessary new purchases.

Understand the importance of fully knowing your software and hardware assets, identifying risks that your company runs by maintaining non-legalized software and achieving efficient corporate governance.

Intended to be part of IT’s business strategy, its objectives serve two major purposes.

The first is to reduce costs and legal risks related to owning and using the software, while maximizing end-user responsiveness and productivity.

The second is to provide a complete history of information on your software and hardware assets, making it possible to detect the moment when any asset undergoes any change as well as outdated or insecure assets.