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award-winning services and best-in-class products from LANDesk to help you manage your assets, endpoint security, system management and more.
LANDesk / Avocent Solutions
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What is Software Asset Management from LANDesk?
For comprehensive Software Asset Management, combine LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager with an endpoint management solution such as LANDesk® Management Suite 9, to import software discovery and license monitoring data. Begin to determine true software compliance at both the individual license and full product level. You’ll be able to calculate how many software licenses have been purchased and compare this to discovery and entitlement data to provide validated counts of licenses owned, discovered, assigned and available.
Create reports that show compliance and entitlement information—and specifically identify both the software and devices that are out of compliance.This helps you leverage both discovery data and your entitlement program to not only determine overall compliance, but to drive an active license management program.
Collect and relate key facts; contracts, warranties, proofs of purchase, licenses and product usage to complete the picture and derive validated counts backed up with appropriate documentation.
With LANDesk Asset Lifecycle Manager you can:
- Stay one step ahead of the auditors by establishing a software asset management program, with entitlement and reconciliation tools to help you enforce your policies.
- Benefit from complete, accurate and structured data about software contracts and licenses, to validate license ownership and provide insight for purchase and allocation planning.
- Contain costs and understand the availability of software assets by recovering under-used licenses and reallocating them, and identifying un-entitled installs so they can be removed or properly entitled.
- Control license purchases by right sizing future purchases agreements based on validated usage information and reconciled entitlements.
Integration and Control
The robust automation and process control embedded in LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager helps you significantly increase efficiency and centralized control with the delivery of automated responses to requests or events. This allows customers to keep stakeholders informed of changes, and connect tasks across operational silos and their unique applications.
The automation in LANDesk Asset Lifecycle Manager also extends the reach of LANDesk® Management Suite. For example, patch administrators can make intelligent decisions without going back to LANDesk Management Suite. An automated patch process can detect new patches made available in the suite, immediately notify IT and security teams, and automatically initiate a test deployment to lab computers pending approval for general deployment by the change advisory board—and the state control engine monitors the success of each patch deployment. This process has also been greatly enhanced by allowing looping. For example, if an issue causes the patch process to stop, the system has built-in intelligence through its state map to restart the process at the appropriate place—which saves valuable time and effort.
By connecting people, processes, and tools through automation, LANDesk Asset Lifecycle Manager increases the efficiency of business and operational processes and enables more effective response for key stakeholders.
When considering competitive advantages, LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager:
- Is designed for the IT Asset Manager by IT Asset Managers based on the best practice
approach to lifecycle management.
- Delivers quick, out-of-the box value with the extensive content included with the
product in the Asset Content Pack.
- Provides all the functionality you need quickly, without having to muddle through
layer after layer of detail.
- Provides flexible process design while enforcing standards, thereby creating a more
disciplined environment.
- Provides SMBs with a cost-effective and value-based alternative to the high-dollar,
enterprise-wide generic solutions that require extensive consulting engagements to
provide functionality.
- Includes a world-class, easy-to-use process control engine standard with the product.
- Maximizes technology investments with extensive ITAM practice and LANDesk Asset
Lifecycle Manager product training offerings to assist customers in achieving success
in their ITAM program.
- In addition, LANDesk’s reputation and knowledge of enterprise systems, security and
service management provides a firm foundation for delivering a total ITAM solution.
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Useful Links

LANDesk Asset Lifecycle Manager Brochure
LANDesk Asset Management White Paper
Building a Foundation for Pragmatic Service Management White Paper
Download LANDesk Trial
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