Asset Management

Knowing what assets an organization has, where they are located, how they are configured, when they were acquired and their utilization is a critical responsibility of any organizations IT department. Asset Management applications are only as good as the discovery data they have to work with. The more the actionable information is complete, up to date and auditable, the better positioned the company is to achieve their IT management objectives.

Centennial Discovery offers Asset Management ISVs the most powerful and comprehensive software tool for dynamically finding, identifying and auditing 100% of all IP addressable corporate hardware and software on a network in near real-time.  Once the assets are discovered, each device is continually monitored and administrators are automatically alerted if a machine is repositioned or removed. Discovery offers:

  • Full hardware and software audit including PCs, servers, printers, switches and more
  • Complete software usage statistics
  • Asset state management
  • Dynamic device detection
  • Complete and real-time change history of all network assets
  • Scalability over heterogeneous and widely distributed environments – to 150,000 assets and beyond
  • Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Netware, Unix, Linux, etc.)
  • Dynamic updates – no need to wait for heavy-overhead batch processing
  • Small client footprint – creates minimal impact on client machine
  • Low bandwidth requirements – delta reporting limits message traffic
  • Low maintenance – automatic updates reduce need for administrator attention

Integrating Discovery Makes Good Business Sense

  • Improve competitive positioning by broadening and enhancing product capabilities
  • Focus on core competency of developing world class IT lifecycle management solutions
  • Bring a more powerful solution to market sooner
  • Leap-frog competition with a more powerful, integrated
  • Leverage the leading discovery tool already in use by more than 5000 customers with more than 4 million licenses deployed
  • Up-sell the new solution to existing customers
  • Effectively compete in situations where asset discovery is a requirement
  • Retain customers looking for a more powerful discovery solution

Your Customer Benefits from Using Discovery

  • Achieve quicker ROI from their IT investment
  • Reduce average help desk call time through instant visibility to hardware and software profiles including recent changes
  • Handle more calls with same number of agent s by significantly reducing walk-around time
  • Meet HIPAA, SOX and other regulatory requirements
  • Make decisions based on an accurate and up to date picture of your environment
  • Reduce IT spend through standardization and strategic purchasing
  • More easily troubleshoot network problems through greater accuracy of network assets
  • Increase employee productivity through faster incident resolution
  • Reduce training time by using a single, integrated solution instead of a multi-vendor solution

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