Now Available!
Express Software Manager® Version 9.5
We are excited to announce that the latest release of Express Software Manager, Version 9.5, is now available! This release continues our ongoing commitment to delivering products that not only meet our customers' evolving IT asset management needs, but also exceed their expectations for high-quality reporting and ease of use. New features in Express Software Manager 9.5 include a new IT purchasing system, additional support for virtualized environments, reporting enhancements, the ability to automatically upgrade the Express Client, and more.
Maintained customers may upgrade to Version 9.5 at no cost.
Key Features
IT Purchasing System
The primary feature behind the Express Software Manager 9.5 release is the introduction of a "purchasing module," a web-based interface that allows you to enter unlimited purchasing information for hardware and software assets, allocate purchases to end users and organization groups, and reconcile purchasing data with inventoried devices and applications.
The new purchasing module gives you the ability to:
- Enter or import purchasing details at the time of purchase or after deployment of new equipment or software.
- Reconcile purchasing data with deployed assets based on license units (for software) or at the next scheduled inventory (for hardware).
- Assign software and hardware purchases to individuals and/or machines; allocate purchases to organizational units or groups.
- Track both summary-level and detailed purchasing information; report on expenses by timeframe, vendor, assignments, and more.
- Track expiration details for leases, service agreements, software and hardware maintenance.
- Enable non-IT or administrative personnel to enter and track purchasing information using a straightforward and intuitive interface.
Virtualization Reporting
Express Software Manager 9.5 will now formally identify virtualized machines and, for Microsoft virtualization environments, associate each virtual machine with its host. Virtual machines are indicated as such in the Administrative Console and in specific reports.
New Reports
Express Software Manager 9.5 will ship with a collection of new reports, many of which were generated from customer feedback. New reports will include enhanced summary level usage statistics, expenditure tracking, additional hardware reports, and a new filtering model that’s especially useful for migration planning.
Automatic Client Upgrade
The Express Client (Version 9.0 and above) can be configured to automatically upgrade itself to Version 9.5, eliminating time and overhead associated with new client deployment.
