3 Advantages on using Computer Inventory Software.
Written by thalib on April 27th, 2010A good asset management practice is crucial for any company, not forgetting computer asset inventory. Computer asset inventory include hardware and software. That is why many company conduct computer inventory activity on regular basis. This job is normally handle by System Administrator. This is because System Administrator is responsible to control all the hardware and software license that install on the servers and desktop in your company.
If your company only have 10 personal computer, it is easy to do the computer asset inventory , you can do it manually. But if your company has more than 10 personal computer, manual inventory is not a good way to conduct inventory. You should use computer inventory software to get your job done.
What are the advantage of using computer inventory software?
1. With computer inventory software, you can generate a computer inventory database easily. What you should do is install the computer inventory software on your PC and add computer to be manage and inventoried into the computer inventory database. You may require some extra job at the first time, but this is only one time job. After that you will be able to collect all the information that you need without leaving your seat and distracting your colleagues.
2. With computer inventory software you can monitor any software changes to your company computer. As soon as your user install new application or your user uninstall application you will be alert by your computer inventory software. And you record will be updated and log will be generated. If user uninstall important application or software like anti virus software, you can with user why he/she did that.
3. The third advantage of using computer inventory software is you can monitor your company hardware status. This is because your computer inventory software can generate hardware summary which tell you what is the hardware that your company use. For example, CPU, RAM, Display Driver, DVD drive or mother board. From here you can easily plan your company computer upgrade.
Those are three advantages on using computer inventory software. You can use these points to convince your management that your company should buy computer inventory software.