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Express Software Manager®

Your decisions are only as good as the information you have.

How can you make important IT decisions if you don't know exactly what's installed on your network and how it's being used?

Express Software Manager is a powerful suite that integrates PC inventory, purchasing data, software usage tracking, and application control*—all into one easy-to-use hardware and software asset management solution. Comprehensive IT asset reports give you exactly the information required by both IT and business decision-makers, as well as the insight you need to keep your network running smoothly and avoid common vulnerabilities within the desktop environment.

Express Software Manager was designed for Windows desktop and server environments, and includes support for Windows Terminal Server/Citrix applications.

Chances are you're accountable for many of the following initiatives. Discover how Express Software Manager can support your efforts.

If you're accountable for: Express Software Manager helps you:
Tracking IT assets
  • Inventory all desktop hardware and software assets installed across your network
  • Match inventoried assets with associated purchasing data
Ensuring license compliance
  • Reconcile installed licenses with imported purchasing data
  • Determine where license deficits exist so corrective action can be taken
  • Ensure ongoing license compliance
  • Conduct automated license reconciliations
  • Meter and control use of concurrent licenses*
  • Monitor SPLA license models
Reducing IT spending
  • Identify unused licenses to avoid paying for unnecessary licenses and their associated support and upgrade costs
Improving desktop security
  • Find newly-installed software
  • Identify the presence and use of software that may pose a risk
  • Control application launches among harmful programs*
  • Restrict access to applications containing sensitive data*
Improving help desk service levels
  • Extend on-demand software and hardware configuration data to support agents for troubleshooting remote PC issues
Upgrading to Vista
  • Determine which PCs do not meet Vista's hardware requirements
  • Identify software that may not be compatible with Vista

An integrated hardware and software asset management solution

Express Software Manager is comprised of two products, each offering functionality critical to maintaining visibility and control over your IT assets. To learn more about each products' individual capabilities, click on the links below.
 Express Inventory®
 Express Meter®

Why Express Metrix is unique

By choosing Express Metrix, you'll get peace of mind knowing that the backbone of Express Metrix products is solid, with over 14 years of continuous product development. See what makes us unique:

Discover — Our products provide a complete discovery of all PC hardware and software components so you can be sure nothing goes undetected.

Recognize — The Express Software Identification Database automatically recognizes nearly 110,000 executables representing software applications from over 3,200 software vendors, a feature guaranteed to save you time.

Report — Express Metrix provides the most powerful and comprehensive reports in two convenient formats - Windows and web-based.

Additional resources

 30-day full-featured trial
 Online product demonstration
 Product architecture
 System requirements
 Version 8.0 data sheet (PDF format)

*Application control functionality is available in the Professional edition of Express Software Manager.
 
Discover all your PCs and IT assets
 
Recognize software applications easily
 
Report on your assets and make good decisions
 

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