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July Technical Tip: Using Path Filtering in Express Software Manager

Posted on Monday, July 16th, 2012 2 comments

When Express Software Manager performs an inventory, it rummages around the darkest corners of your computer hard drives and presents everything it discovers in comprehensive computer inventory reports. Sometimes, though, you want to limit the information you see. For example, applications found in backup, patch installer, or temporary folders can unnecessarily clutter your reports, and in some cases may even provide misleading information about the software installed on those...

December Report of the Month: Software Installation by Version

Posted on Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Happy holidays to all! As we wrap up 2011, we have a final Report of the Month to highlight within Express Software Manager: Software Installation by Version. This report, while simple in conception, has a whole host of uses, from ensuring your users have successfully upgraded to the latest version of Application X to verifying the install path of your end users’ software. The Software Installation by Version report, depicted in the screenshot below, shows which versions of...

November Report of the Month: What’s Changed?

Posted on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Do you ever find yourself wishing for a dynamic view of what’s changing within your environment, versus an inventory snapshot representing a single point in time? One supremely useful report that satisfies this need is the “What’s Changed” report. Its purpose is to help you determine what has changed from a hardware and/or software perspective in your environment between two specified dates. From a hardware perspective, the “What’s Changed”...

September Report of the Month: Express History

Posted on Friday, September 9th, 2011

One useful report many customers aren’t familiar with is the “Express History” report, which allows you to track changes made to your Express Software Manager implementation. For example, imagine you turned on software metering for a particular application, but two days later metering is no longer enabled. The Express History report would identify the user that made that change, so you can mete out the proper punishment. Below are several screenshots illustrating...

August Report of the Month: License Unit Purchase History

Posted on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 2 comments

As most of you are probably aware, with the 9.5 version of Express Software Manager we introduced a purchasing system and interface that allows for easy reconciliation of purchasing details with deployed hardware and software assets. One of the most basic and useful purchasing reports found within the product is the “License Unit Purchase History.” This report allows you to view both summary and detailed purchasing information for any given license unit group, manufacturer, or UPNSC...

July Report of the Month: Software Usage Statistics

Posted on Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 1 comment

As most of our customers know, software usage analysis is a critical component of effective IT asset management, offering a means to analyze whether software investments are being fully utilized, ensure concurrently-licensed apps are being used within proper usage limits, and evaluate usage patterns of unauthorized applications within your environment. This month, we’ll take a look at the “Software Usage Statistics” report, one of Express Software Manager’s most...