is your company at risk due to software license infringement?
Have you got the full facts on all your IT assets?
With the passage of time it's far too easy for an organisation to lose control of what IT assets are employed in their organisation.
This creates the potential for risk in terms of theft, misplacement, under insurance but most importantly software license infringement.
The law states you need to purchase a license for each PC that a chargeable software program is installed on otherwise it's software piracy, just the same as if you duplicated a software company's CD and sold it in a market!
Organisations like FAST and the BSA actively encourage, for financial reward, ex or disgruntled employees to report license abuse and this can have a devastating effect on the company concerned, restricted not only to severe financial loss but embarrassment, fines, bad publicity and as awful as it sounds, up to 10 years in prison for ultimately responsible company officers.
Auditing your PCs will resolve these worries in no time and there's no better tool than Visual Audit X4!
With Visual Audit X4 on hand you will have the full facts on your IT assets and be able to answer any questions instantly. At the same time you can banish potential risk and save money by finding over licensed software or software that's no longer in use or in need of maintenance and upgrades.
Knowledge is Power and with Visual Audit X4 you get both!
How it works
A simple installation guides you through either:-
Installing SQL 2005 Server Express, the freely distributable Microsoft SQL tool, followed by a seamless install of Visual Audit X4, followed by connection to your new SQL database.
Or for existing SQL Server Express, SQL 2000 or SQL Server 2005/2008 users, you can just install Visual Audit X4 and connect using your own SQL Server.
It's time to audit!
Once installed simply define your audit areas. This means deciding on where to run your audits from and where to store all your collected data.
Using Visual Audit X4's intuitive Audit Area Wizard just define the complexity and detail of your audit. You choose what additional user information to collect, what level of software and hardware to audit and any specific system file data, music, movie or other file types.
Once you've decided on your audit profile, you can audit PCs on demand at the click of a mouse, or with a simple alteration to the login script have users automatically audited when they login to the network. You can even stream the data back to a TCP/IP service, to allow for more restrictive networking environments.
Analysis
Once your audit data has been collected and imported it is automatically calculated to give you your global totals. You will see the results of your entire network and can select any PC for individual analysis of installed Software, Software snapshot, Hardware and Licensing.
Visual Audit X4 provides functionality to set up multiple tab views of your PC population. For example you may wish to view all PCs with Windows XP in one tab with all Vista PCs in a separate tab. Criteria views can easily be shared with other users.
Reporting
The new reporting engine allows you to combine the flexibility of SQL with the ease of use of a drag and drop report builder. Of course, we also include a collection of pre-built reports which users can customise. As well as on screen and printed reports with customisable layouts, you can now export direct to Excel and PDF (as well as the traditional csv and html exports).
License Manager
Visual Audit X4's built-in License Manager lets you assign a whole range of license types to your discovered software, giving you an instant overview of Licensed Software and License Violations. There's no need for an additional license tool.
Specification
Database
- SQL database structure with multi user capability.
Network enumeration
- Browse using Active Directory, Network Neighborhood or I.P. address range
- Remote desktop tool
Audit collection
Design and name your Audit Area with the following, choosing what detail to collect:-
Select from:
- Complete software audit
- Registry snapshot software audit
- Optionally scan archives
- Scan inside files for executable code
- Collect movie files
- Collect music files
- Collect DVD rips (VOB files)
- Collect torrents
- Collect specific file extension types (user definable)
- Collect contents of System files
- Collect additional information about the PC and user
- Ask user or read info from specific location
- Exclude certain folders like recycle bin, internet cache etc.
- Decide on audit frequency, one off or days between audits
- Choose silent audit with command line parameters
- Define location to run scanner from
- Define location to store data
Imported data
- View global audited data
- Select individual PC view
- View multiple PCs simultaneously
- Design simple or complex criteria to view in individual tabs
- Share tabs between users
- View registered software
- View snapshot software
- View hardware
- View licenses in use
- View license violations
- View software with no license
Product identification
- Enhanced product identification with 15 years ongoing development
- Add, import and export product identification data
- Add product identification on the go
- Assign main and secondary file information
Additional features
- Audit on Demand feature
- Includes sample data
- Online access to your support and updates account
- Automatically updates when new versions of Visual Audit X4 are available
- Intuitive online Help System included
- Advanced database querying support