SYNC Pro is a non-intrusive, repository based auto inventory system that dynamically and discreetly audits, tracks and manages IT assets including hardware and sub-components, software and license compliance, all from a central location on the network.

 The Objective of SYNC Pro

The objective of SYNC Pro is to facilitate cost effective, accurate, real-time IT asset management that is sustainable throughout the growth of an organisation.

This is achieved through the automated extraction and presentation of useful and accurate management information about all computers connecting to a network via a simple and user-friendly interface.

 
The deployment of SYNC Pro is the first positive step forward for any organisation in terms of its commitment to corporate governance and has immediate and long term benefits by gaining and maintaining both physical and financial control of an organisations IT infrastructure by unlocking value in areas such as:

• Reducing total cost of ownership through automated data collection into a central information hub negating the need for time and resource intensive extractions from individual machines.

• Keeping a check on software expenditure by knowing what, where and with whom it is installed, thereby limiting software purchases to only what is required.

• Keeping check on storage utilization through accurate reports on usage vs. available capacity thus ensuring optimal capacity management.

• Avoiding license compliancy violation exposure by providing accurate installed software information.

• Reducing risk of component shrinkage through accurate reports showing missing, added and changed hardware components.

• Ensuring financial control as payments for licenses are accurate, the computer assets are incorporated for valuation and depreciated, resulting in an accurate reflection of computer assets in the financial statements.

• Providing a scalable cost effective solution that grows with the pace of the company and does not require replacement.

• Keeping expensive internet traffic down by providing an audit trail for the monitoring of sites visited by users.

                                                                           

                                                                                                                                         

SYNC Pro: Your SAM, Licensing and Audit Partner.

SYNC Pro can be deployed to collect information in various ways, depending on the IT infrastructure - an ideal tool for multi-vendor environments.

SYNC Pro...

• Does not require any client installation
• Can collect information via scheduled collections
• Can collect information on demand
• Can collect information via dial-ups
• Can manually collect information for stand-alone machines
• Collects information in about 7 seconds

SYNC Pro is your scalable solution...

Because of SYNC Pro's flexibility and scalability the solution can be used in different scenarios:

• As a complete IT Asset Management solution
• As part of your Software Asset Management (SAM) solution
• As a once-off audit tool
• As a pre-sales tool for outsource partners
• As part of the due diligence process
• As part of a service level agreement
• As part of corporate governance processes to satisfy best practice initiatives such as Sarbanes Oxley

The Features:

The SYNC Pro product was designed to enable the user to automatically obtain vital information about all the workstations and servers on a network without affecting the performance of the workstations, servers, or networks.

• Automatically discover hardware and software inventory information
• Reports on extended hardware information from SMBIOS interrogation
• Audit and monitor software usage for licence compliance
• Automatically gather additional customised details via dialog prompts on demand.
• Comprehensive range of standard management reports
• Export facility to facilitate to facilitate reporting in another tool set for report customisation
• Windows based front-end for information management
• Custom data cleansing and data editing utility
• Comprehensive Network IP Probe facility
• Schedule remote executions or software uninstall
• Direct message send facility
• Track movement of PC through the organisation

Business Benefits

• Ensures good corporate IT Governance
• Addresses Risk Management in the IT environment
• Provides detailed management information to assist policies and procedures that support best practices such as ITIL, CobIT and Sarbanes Oxley
• Reduces total cost of ownership by providing a Comprehensive Configuration Management Database and utilisation reporting.
• Reduces IT costs by streamlining processes and providing remote management capabilities
• Keeps check on software expenditure
• Provides information for mapping upgrade paths and calculating upgrade budgets
• Avoids licence violation exposures by providing accurate reports of installed software
• Reduces the risk of component shrinkage by providing reports on missing components
• Ensures optimal utilisation of IT assets Ensures optimum insurance cover is taken by providing accurate asset details, thereby protecting the company's investment.

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