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From a Mess to a Model Program: Asset Tracking Serves Up Savings and Security for Healthcare Insurance Company (Part I)

Posted on Friday, January 11th, 2013
Note: The identity of the company featured in this customer snapshot has been concealed to protect the non-compliant. Part 1:  Sorting Out a Software Compliance Tangle Searching for software purchasing records, an IT manager at a well-established health insurance provider found herself face to face with a compliance nightmare of colossal proportions. What began as a filing exercise became a scavenger hunt where all the clues added up to potentially huge license...

Security and Software Asset Management: Application Insight Adds New Layer of Network Protection

Posted on Monday, November 5th, 2012
Network security has topped the enterprise IT priority list ever since networked computers hit the mainstream, and for good reason. Today even the smallest network is under threat from botnets, hacking, Trojans, denial of service attacks and information leakage. Malicious or criminal attacks, the most expensive cause of data breaches, are on the rise, and the consequences of poor network protection are harsh. Breach containment, crisis management, investigations and forensics, customer...

Archaic EULAs Create a Licensing Quagmire for Citrix Shops

Posted on Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
PDHeadInSandIn my introduction to this article series, I discussed the challenges related to managing software licenses within a Citrix environment.  Let’s start with the primary reason for the difficulties in the first place: Most software publishers are clinging to a per-device license model that doesn’t translate into an environment in which application delivery is user-centric. This is especially baffling in a world in which mobile devices are quickly being added to the...

New Blog Series: Managing Software Licenses in a Citrix Environment

Posted on Friday, August 10th, 2012 2 comments
Software licensing is complicated enough in its own right. Throw in a bunch of corporate apps running on Citrix servers, and you’ve got the potential for all-out pandemonium. It requires considerable knowledge, even in a traditional desktop environment, to successfully navigate the intricacies of software licensing and compliance. But in an increasingly virtualized world, with technologies such as Citrix XenApp serving up software to end users, license management becomes exponentially...

Dell Kace Review: A Comparison to Express Software Manager

Posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Last week when I was doing a product demonstration for a prospective customer, I fielded a question related to how we differentiate ourselves from the Dell Kace appliance. As a matter of fact, I’ve been asked this question with increasing frequency over the past year or so…to the point where I feel compelled to blog about it. I find it difficult, at times, to answer questions about competitive products. First of all, it’s virtually impossible to keep up with every asset...

Express Metrix Named CODiE Award Finalist for Sixth Year Running

Posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2012
CODiE_2012_finalist_black We were thrilled to learn last week that the SIIA has once again named Express Metrix a CODiE Award finalist in the “Best Asset Management Solution” category. In fact, we’ve been a finalist every year since we were first nominated in 2006—the only company to claim this accomplishment within the category!—and were honored to win the award in 2008. The annual awards recognize excellence within the world of business software, digital content, and education...
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