With the recent release of Express Software Manager v9.5, we developed a pretty slick Flash demonstration to show potential end-users of the product its key features and capabilities related to IT asset management.  The demo is jammed with reports, so it’s a great way to get a quick look under the hood of the product without downloading and installing the full-featured evaluation.

The demo is comprised of six modules, each of which are a couple of minutes in length.  Here’s what you’ll see: (more…)

We recently announced the availability of Express Software Manager Version 9.5, with the introduction of a brand new IT purchasing system.  Now, in addition to tracking the inventory and usage of your IT assets, you can manage all the details related to your hardware and software purchases—and abandon those Excel spreadsheets once and for all!

Please join me for either of the two live product demonstrations held via LiveMeeting on Thursday, July 29 for North America and Wednesday, August 11 for Europe, Middle East and Africa. 

I’ll demonstrate Express Software Manager’s PC inventory and software usage tracking capabilities, along with the new IT purchasing system, which will transform your ability to manage your hardware and software assets, stay compliant with license agreements, identify areas where your organization has purchased too many licenses, and more. 

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We’re pleased to announce that Express Software Manager Version 9.5 is now available for download! Current Express Metrix customers have already received the new release and the feedback so far has been phenomenal! 

The principal feature in Version 9.5 is the introduction of an IT purchasing system that will transform your ability to track and manage all the details related to your hardware and software purchases, maintenance contracts, and leases.  Express Software Manager now features a web-based interface that allows you to enter unlimited purchasing information for hardware and software inventory, allocate purchases to end users and organizational groups, and reconcile purchasing data with inventoried devices and applications.

The new purchasing system is designed to address IT asset management challenges organizations face when trying to map purchasing details to deployed assets and recognize often-concealed financial aspects vital to effectively managing those assets.

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We’re deep in the final throes of shipping Express Software Manager Version 9.5 (so I’ll keep this short!), but I wanted to post a link to a very strong review we got from Martin Thompson of the ITAM Review. 

We demo’ed an early release of the product to him a couple of weeks ago, with a primary focus on the new IT purchasing system that will now ship with Express Software Manager. 

Read the Express Software Manager 9.5 Preview

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Earlier this week, Kris blogged about analyst predictions for stronger growth in technology spending for 2010.  Among the areas expected to drive the growth are new hardware purchases (fueled in part by migrations to Microsoft Windows 7), continued adoption of virtualization technologies, and pent-up demand for PCs created during capital budget freezes of 2008 and 2009.  Given the anticipated increase in IT investment levels, I thought it might be interesting (and helpful) to take a look at how the upcoming release of Express Software Manager 9.5 can help your organization as your IT budget starts to show signs of life:   

• Migration Planning Reports:  If you expect to migrate to Microsoft Windows 7, you’ll be able to take advantage of Express Software Manager’s new “Express Query Builder,” which will allow you to specify certain machine configurations or attributes to target your planning efforts.  For example, you can run a report to see all the machines running Windows XP whose RAM is less than 2GB. 
• IT Purchase Tracking System:  With Express Software Manager’s brand new purchasing interface, you’ll be able to track and manage the entire lifecycle of your hardware and software assets, from purchase through retirement.  You’ll be able to enter or import unlimited purchasing details at any time, before or after assets are deployed; easily assign and allocate assets to users and organization groups; reconcile purchasing details with inventoried assets, keep track of contract expiration dates; and run summary-level and detailed reports on your IT purchases.  
• Enhanced Support for Virtual Environments:  If you plan to roll out more virtualization technology in 2010, you’ll be happy to hear that Express Software Manager has enhanced its support for virtual machines. In addition to Express Software Manager’s existing ability to inventory virtual workstations and server OSs and track and control the launch of applications launched within virtual software environments, you will now be able to identify and display the relationship between a host OS and guest OS in Microsoft environments.  
• New Software Usage Reports: Express Software Manager has always offered powerful software usage reporting to help you identify areas where your organization is over-licensed and spending too much.  With Version 9.5, Express Software Manager will offer new software usage reports your boss will love, showing where money can be saved by renegotiating your 2010 license agreements—and ensure any subsequent software purchases are being put to good use. 

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