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Desktop Audit 3.1
PC Desktop Management Utility
(Lotus Notes Version)
What is Desktop Audit?
Desktop Audit is an utility that can quickly inventory PC desktops for software and hardware.
What is Desktop Audit?  (Continued)
Desktop Audit creates 30 standard reports which can quickly be used for financials, migration, planning, or asset management.
Scalable works for 10 or 100,000 desktops.
Your Needs
How do you control what is placed on your PC Desktops? PC/Desktop configuration is very dynamic.
How do you know what anti-virus software is running on machines and whether it is running the latest pattern files.  New viruses are spreading each day is your environment protected.
Your Needs
How do you protect yourself from license liability suits?  Piracy software is ramped on businesses PCs.
How can you control version of software you are running in your environment?  Users can change the software at any time.
How do you perform migration planning without knowing what your migrating?   Migration can easily fail if the PC configurations are not known.
Your needs
Do your users have pirated music?  Software alliance is going after several corporations who unknowingly allowed users to download copyrighted music.  Will your company be next?
Why do I need Desktop Audit?
Desktop audit will allow you to know what all the hardware and software on all the PCs in your environment.
Computer viruses can disrupt any business environment causing estimated 10 billion dollars worth of damage, last year alone.  Do you know if Anti-Virus software is installed on all desktops and do you know if it is running properly?
Why do I need Desktop Audit?
License Liability will result in millions of dollars but having a detail report of the licenses installed in your environment will protect you from that burden.
Migrations and upgrades are very complicated.  Performing a migration without exact knowledge of the environment is quite risky.
Why do I need Desktop Audit?
Illegal download copyrighted music and applications could be on your company’s PCs.  If users know that you have the ability to check for these items, they are less likely to possess them.
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Individual study showed that to manually inventory a single machine would take between 7.5 to 12.5 minutes per machine.
1000 desktops inventoried would take 7500 minutes or 125 hours.   These doesn’t take into account time between inventories.
Cost/Benefit Analysis
What if you have 2000, 10000, or 50000 desktops to inventory?  Desktop Audit can perform this task in one day.  One to 100,000 can be performed within the same window of time.
How many man-hours can you use to provide inventory?  Desktop Audit can relieve the need to allocate several thousand man hours to a labor intensive process.
Cost/Benefit Analysis
How often do you need to do asset inventories?
Desktop Audit provides a simple mechanism for performing these inventories as frequent as daily.
How does it work?
Desktop Audit is two Lotus Notes Databases.  The first database is the operational database which conducts the audit.
The Second database is a results database which is configured for mail-in use.
How does it work?
You compose an Audit profile detailing exactly what information you want to gather and to whom.
Execute the audit and it sends emails to everyone in the Audit profile.
When user opens their email,  Desktop Audit quickly and efficiently inventories the machine and sends the results to the result database.
Example Reports
Example Reports
Example Reports
Example Reports
Next Steps
Contact RTS today at info@realtimessolutions.com or call at 301-313-0800
Go to www.realtimessolutions.com and download a trial copy of Desktop Audit, you will surely be amazed at the ease of use and installation.
Desktop Audit Benefits
Facilitates License compliancy by knowing exactly what applications are installed on each desktop and versions.
Improves Version control by gathering version levels of all major applications.
Provides all critical desktop information required to plan migrations and upgrades.
Desktop Audit Benefits
Provides critical information needed for planning hardware and software upgrades.  Also, will provide information needed to formulate annual or quarterly budgets.
Low cost compared to similar products.
And much much more…
Desktop Audit Features
Simple installation and operation.
Centralized software installation:  Software only needs to be installed on one server for collection of Audits on all users in the enterprise.
Centralized audit collection:  All results are automatically mailed to a Lotus Notes Database which could reside on any server in the enterprise.
Desktop Audit Features
Over 30 standard reports (views) and very little development is needed to create any customize (report) view.
All Lotus Notes application.  All controls and Audits remain in Notes Application so they can be used on websites or mailed to any individual.