IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis Rapid, Granular Inventory Insights and Always-On Asset Management Enhance License Compliance

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IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis Rapid, granular inventory insights and always-on asset management enhance license compliance

IBM® Tivoli® Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis delivers Highlights the ability to identify an organization’s licensed and unlicensed software with drill-down granularity to track software usage patterns and trends. ●● ●●Identify licensed and unlicensed software Dramatically reducing the time required to conduct a comprehensive with drill-down granularity software asset inventory for license reconciliation or compliance pur- ●● ●●Reduce the time, effort and inaccuracy of poses, the solution provides valuable insight into what the organization manual inventory and analysis owns—and what it has installed but doesn’t own—along with how often

●● ●●Manage assets on hundreds—or the software is being used in order to support better planning, budgeting hundreds of thousands—of endpoints and vendor license compliance.

●● ●●Automate planning, budgeting and vendor license compliance processes Built on BigFix® technology, the solution can provide visibility and management for software on hundreds—or hundreds of thousands— of endpoints. Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis can be used to provide a rapid return on investment on a Tivoli IT Asset Management project, completely eliminate inefficient, inaccurate spreadsheets adapted for manually tracking software, and facilitate IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®) processes.

The near-instant visibility into enterprise assets provided by Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis can be vital to optimizing asset control and operations in the interconnected, instrumented and intelligent technology environments of today’s smarter planet.

Easy to use and centrally managed from a unified console, the solution enables continuous asset assessment and reporting with low total cost of ownership and high return on investment. Not only does IBM Software Data Sheet Tivoli

IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis: How it works

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Company network Software ID catalog Publishers Real-time, ongoing inventory collection Software titles Executable information Software title versions Program strings Applications Registry data Executables Application usage data Third party Computer properties (customizable) inventory applications

The solution leverages a comprehensive Software Identification Catalog to simplify asset identification and support reporting that organizational units can use to enhance software-related operations and management.

Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis discover Knowing your assets, managing and manage applications—down to the version level—the them better insights it provides can translate into significant cost savings for When it comes to understanding and managing software assets, organizations that are spending more than necessary on enterprises today face common challenges. What do you have— software licensing fees. and how can you reconcile what you’ve purchased with what’s installed? Do you have the right applications available to the

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right users—and how can you redistribute software to make updated via a cloud-based update service with information on sure it’s deployed to the best advantage? Overall, are you man- commercial applications and publishers, the catalog is also easily aging your assets in the most efficient and comprehensive way? customizable to include tracking of homegrown and proprietary Are you meeting standard compliance—and are you legally applications—with no scripting or coding required. licensed for all the software installed on users’ endpoints? The Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis can approach is a significant change from—and an advantage provide answers, delivering deep asset management capabilities over—conventional management solutions. Other techniques even in the most complex environments. Providing infrastruc- utilize endpoint agents that are entirely dependent on instruc- ture views and enabling customized “slice and dice” reports tions received from a central command-and-control server, and on aggregate application counts, software usage statistics and require lengthy scans to acquire inventory data. With Tivoli compliance with basic license types, the solution can provide Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis, the endpoint an understanding of the connections between software license itself provides the computational power necessary for assess- management and desktop, patch and security management ment and reporting, considerably enhancing reporting speed. processes. It can give you the focus you need to better manage The ability to schedule inventory and reporting at times that your endpoints, reconciling the real-time endpoint state against are most appropriate to the workloads of individual endpoints, application licenses on the Microsoft Windows platform. rather than requiring a batch to execute all at once, further enhances efficiencies by avoiding bandwidth and endpoint Benefiting from an intelligent CPU bottlenecks. agent-based approach Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis is Drilling down for insight and cost savings offered as a standalone product that provides its capabilities The Tivoli solution enables two key software metering either as an independent solution or in concert with the rest of functions—“always on” software inventory and analysis, along the solutions in the Tivoli Endpoint Manager portfolio. The with software asset and license management. solution correlates the inventory data it gathers with its built- in Software Identification Catalog to create an inventory data The inventory and analysis function provides a constantly warehouse. It then allows users to browse the data warehouse updated inventory that drills down into software asset infor- and generate reports. mation, providing aggregated statistics and usage gathered by searching, filtering, sorting, viewing and exporting data on The Software Identification Catalog simplifies the potentially thousands of computer properties. Automation and identification of specific software installations with informa- speed of operations enable IT organizations to radically reduce tion on 5,000 publishers, 5,000 software products and more the number of hours and resources spent on inventory activities. than 105,000 application signatures out of the box. Continually

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The software asset and license management function enables ●●●Ongoing analysis and reporting—Because the solution’s users to create and manage information about software con- asset monitoring takes place continuously, administrators and tracts and product licenses to ensure licensing compliance. financial analysts can generate the reports they need when Users can browse data about software licenses and compare this they need them. Real-time reporting can deliver information information with inventory information in order to audit license on the health and compliance of software assets in minutes— compliance and determine related financial implications. The regardless of the size of the environment. Reporting access is result: the organization is better positioned to actively manage available to various roles and individuals in the enterprise, not just enough software, just in time, eliminating the expense of just to operations managers, helping support line-of-business over-purchasing and the risk of noncompliance. requirements. ●●●Integration with other Tivoli solutions—To extend These two central functions are supported by a number of management capabilities, Tivoli Endpoint Manager for key capabilities: Software Use Analysis integrates with other Tivoli asset management products, including Tivoli Asset Management ●●●Rapid installation and implementation—A robust platform for IT with its capabilities for functions such as procurement designed for speed as well as intelligence means that instal- and contract management, as well as Tivoli Asset Discovery lation throughout the entire enterprise takes only hours. for Distributed with its capabilities for inventory of Traditional solutions, by contrast, often can require months non-Windows based assets. or even longer. Once installation is complete, “always on” inventory captures software status and changes in near real Generating reports for IT and time, boosting time to value for low total cost of ownership. business operations Existing Tivoli Endpoint Manager customers can quickly add Using Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis, Software Use Analysis capabilities without requiring organizations can gain increased visibility into their software additional endpoint software and relay infrastructure. license consumption and usage while reducing the amount of ●●●Flexible, efficient design—With the ability to handle hun- time and effort required to generate reports that show compli- dreds of thousands of endpoints, the solution provides sig- ance and overall software usage. nificant advantages for simplified management and reduced hardware and staff costs over traditional asset management Leveraging the power and flexibility of Tivoli Endpoint methods requiring dozens of dedicated back-end servers. Manager technology, the solution enables significant benefits ●●● Visibility into any asset—The solution can gain including the ability to more accurately plan software budgets visibility into any computing device across topologies in a based on inventory and usage trends. The solution can also heterogeneous environment and regardless of connection help facilitate planning. For example, when organizations are state—whether on the corporate network or connected via migrating from Microsoft Office 2003 to Office 2010, Tivoli the Internet. Persistent inventory and visibility ensure that Endpoint Manager can help administrators quickly determine software records are up-to-date, accurate and complete. which endpoints meet the prerequisites, and which endpoints need hardware upgrades such as added RAM.

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The Tivoli Endpoint Manager family Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software Use Analysis You can further consolidate tools, reduce the number of end- Server requirements: point agents and lower your management costs by extending your investment in Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Software • Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 • Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2 Use Analysis to include other components in the Tivoli Console requirements: Endpoint Manager family. Because all functions operate from the same console, management server and endpoint agent, • Microsoft Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/2008 R2/7 adding more services is a simple matter of a license key change. Supported Platforms for the Agent: • Microsoft Windows, including XP, 2000, 2003, Vista, 2008, 2008 R2, 7, CE, Mobile, XP Embedded and Embedded Point-of-Sale ●●●Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Lifecycle Management—This • Mac OS X solution addresses today’s convergence of IT functions by providing real-time visibility into the state of endpoints and giving administrators advanced functionality for managing For more information those endpoints. To learn more about IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager for ●●● — Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Security and Compliance Software Use Analysis, contact your IBM sales representative This easy-to-manage, quick-to-deploy solution provides or IBM Business Partner, or visit: ibm.com/tivoli/endpoint unified, real-time visibility and enforcement to help organizations both protect endpoint assets and assure regulators that About Tivoli software from IBM systems are meeting security compliance standards. Tivoli software from IBM helps organizations efficiently and ●●●Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Patch Management—This effectively manage IT resources, tasks and processes to meet option provides organizations with a powerful way to assess, ever-shifting business requirements and deliver flexible and deploy and manage patches for the myriad operating systems responsive IT service management, while helping to reduce and applications across heterogeneous environments. costs. The Tivoli portfolio spans software for security, com- ●●●Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Power Management—This pliance, storage, performance, availability, configuration, option enables enforcement of energy conservation policies operations and IT life cycle management, and is backed by across the organization, with the granularity necessary to world-class IBM services, support and research. enable application of policies to a single computer. ●●●Tivoli Endpoint Manager for Core Protection—This Additionally, IBM Global Financing can help you acquire the solution helps reduce business risk by delivering real-time IT solutions that your business needs in the most cost-effective protection to physical and virtual endpoints from malware and strategic way possible. We’ll partner with credit qualified and other malicious threats from a single console. clients to customize an IT financing solution to suit your business goals, enable effective cash management, and improve your total cost of ownership. IBM Global Financing is your smartest choice to fund critical IT investments and propel your business forward. For more information, visit: ibm.com/financing

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