AssetLabs offers IT-Risk analytic web-services that empowers corporations - and IT Service providers - to identify business risks (licensing, productivity, security & budgeting risks) via analysis of their software inventory. Unlike other ‘SAM’ offerings that demand a proprietary inventory for each device, AssetLab’s solutions integrates with your existing PC Management/Inventory tools, saving you time and money. AssetLabs is co-founded by Steve O’Halloran, the co-founder and ‘architect’ of AssetMetrix; a web-based PC inventory & Asset Intelligence’ service that was offered by Dell, Software Software Spectrum, Compucom, Compugen & SoftChoice. AssetLabs was acquired by Microsoft in 2006. AssetLabs strives to be the best solution to categorize your IT assets, and deliver cost-saving and risk-reducing services to help you better manage your IT assets.

1. AssetLabs
AssetCheck
Audit Data Optimization Service
Fix ‘Raw Data’
25% of all inventory is incomplete,
with publisher names & versions missing or in the wrong field.
AssetCheck corrects missing and incorrect inventory data.
Organize Data for License Analysis
AssetCheck merges data from ‘acquired’ Publishers, so legacy
software is listed with the new Publisher.
Review counts across ‘Product families’ for Enterprise Agreements
Identify ‘real’ Business Software
Only 5% of inventory data is ‘business’ software.
AssetCheck filters out hotfixes, updates, components
and all other distractions!
Determine Corporate Compliancy
AssetCheck will identify games, P2P & other products
that cause end-user ‘distractions’
Reduce SAM audit review times by 90%
Increase audit & True-up accuracy

2. ‘Raw’ Inventory Data: incorrect, incoherent & costly
What is ‘Raw’ Inventory Data?
Raw inventory data is the un-modified inventory data
created during the installation of an application. Using ‘Raw’ Inventory Data
Typically, ‘raw’ inventory data includes:
Software Title
for license analysis
Software Version
Publisher Name may cost you....
What is the problem Title Errors Version Errors Publisher Errors
Minor version (7.01, 7.02),
with ‘Raw’ Inventory Data? Hidden spaces & character causes
model version (XP, CS) and values that
Too many ‘Adobe’ like variations;
and sometimes
‘count-split’, forcing manual counts aren’t numbers (1.0.0.3) no publisher data at all.
There’s no rules or standards to ensure make for next-to-impossible analysis.
that software publishers properly populate
their ‘installation’ data.
Some publishers put the version within the title,
Software Count Report
or use many variations of their name,
or simply don’t fill in the data at all!
These problems make software reports
a nightmare to use for your license analysis;
the final ‘count’ of a software title is fragmented
throughout your report (or spreadsheet)
causing you to manually search for the software,
then and add up the values!
What are the risks?
Any error in your calculations will cause you to be ‘under-licensed’,
That could lead to unexpected budget ‘impacts’ (for internal audits)
or unexpected true-up fees and/or fines (for external audits).

3. AssetCheck rebuilds & reorganizes your data
using ‘asset-intelligent’ algorithms
1 Publisher Correction Identify all variations of a publishers name and
normalizes them to a common publisher name.
Apple Computer
Apple, Inc
APPLE
Apple Corp.
Apple Corporation
6 ProductLine ‘Tree’
Another Industry First: software titles are automatically placed
into Product Line ‘Family Trees’ for immediate analysis
2 Publisher Adoption Applications from a publisher that no longer exists
automatically merged to the publisher who acquired it.
Macromedia
Ehelp ADOBE
Hyperion
PeopleSoft
ORACLE
3 Version Correction Convert all model names (CS, XP, etc.), minor
versions, etc., into a licensing ‘value’.
7.01
7.02.4.6
7
CS2 9
4 Title Correction Normalize all spelling variations (including foreign
languages) into a single software title.
Outlook Office Outlook
Acrobat Reader Reader
5 ‘Dark Data’ Correction Industry First: Auto-fill missing software
versions, Publishers and even Software titles!
PUBLISHER TITLE VERSION AssetCheck is a
Essbase Server 7.16
superior & faster solution
Oracle Essbase Server 7 to review your
licensing & audit position.

4. AssetCheck For each publisher, ‘Family
Easily choose between:
? Line of Business
?
Auditable
Non-Auditable Line of
Business
Trees’ for each Product Line
can be expanded to review Each title has a specific license type - grouped
by ‘audit’ (volume, retail, etc.) or ‘non-audit
(freeware, trial, etc.)
as well as a usage type - grouped by
‘business’ (Security, IT Mgmt, Office app) or ‘
Reduce SAM audit review times Distraction (game, P2P, DVD burning, etc.)
up to 90%
Your AssetCheck reports -complete with categorization -
are typically ready in 24 hours or less.
Version ‘Clustering’ - with
No variable ‘pay-per-PC’ fees. 84% of installs within 2
versions - suggest support &
productivity optimization.
Whether you have 500 or 50,000 PCs, the AssetCheck’s
sticker price is still the same.
No Inventory agent to install.
All you need is your ‘software count’ report from your PC
inventory or Network Management tool.
Though Visio 2003 is the
MaintainPC Inventory required, the details of
Since there is no
end-user data privacy standard,
147 end-users could upgrade,
‘who-has-what’ remains with you, not us. You maintain
end-user privacy.
Use your current ...or use a free
Inventory tool.... inventory tool
If you have a network management or PC Inventory application, all you need is a If you don’t have a product that offers PC Inventory, there
‘software title count’ report exported to an ‘XLS’ file. are several solutions that include PC Inventory as part of
their free offerings:
That’s it. AssetCheck works with network management products like:
Spiceworks
?
Microsoft
? SMS & SCCM SAManage
?
Altiris
?
Landesk
?
and Service-now.com !

5. About AssetLabs...
AssetLabs offers IT-Risk analytic web-services that empowers corporations - and IT Service
providers - to identify business risks (licensing, productivity, security & budgeting risks) via
analysis of their software inventory.
Unlike other ‘SAM’ offerings that demand a proprietary inventory for each device, AssetLab’s
solutions integrates with your existing PC Management/Inventory tools, saving you time and
money.
AssetLabs is co-founded by Steve O’Halloran, the co-founder and ‘architect’ of AssetMetrix; a
web-based PC inventory & Asset Intelligence’ service that was offered by Dell, Software Software
Spectrum, Compucom, Compugen & SoftChoice. AssetLabs was acquired by Microsoft in 2006.
AssetLabs strives to be the best solution to categorize your IT assets, and deliver cost-saving and
risk-reducing services to help you better manage your IT assets.
AssetLabs Forecast the Future.
phone 303-872-7738
fax 613-821-9319
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email info@AssetLabs.com