Certero Enterprise Standard Edition
Certero helps organizations shake-off the hangover of ‘legacy’ technology from the IT Hardware & Software Asset Management process, so you can spend more time doing what you should be doing – delivering value to the business, demonstrating reduced licensing costs and risk instead of wrestling with data sets and uncertainties.
The Challenge: Silencing the Noise
It’s common for the majority of a SAM Managers’ time to be spent gathering and making sense of inventory data – sometimes up to 70% of their capacity. This leaves absurdly little time to spend analyzing the information and taking actions that will add value to the business.
Imagine if a mechanic spent 70% of their time just trying to get under the hood of a car to see what’s happening… Time has shown that legacy Inventory and SAM tools, with their disparate data silos, reliance on manual processes and a fundamental lack of data quality, inevitably add such a degree of noise and uncertainty to the SAM process that more time is spent manually compensating for the toolsets’ inadequacies than actually using the information to take positive actions.
Optimizing Software spending is complex enough, without toolsets that take years to deploy, or leave gaps in data where scripts are required to attain the additional detail required. The data you need to manage licensing should not be duplicated, incomplete, unreconcilable and your SAM solution should not be preventing you from migrating to the Cloud and Digitally Transforming.
Fortunately, this complexity and inefficiency no longer needs to hold you back from achieving a mature and effective SAM process; the future of ITAM & SAM is already here.
The Solution: Everything You Need in One Place
Certero Enterprise Standard Edition is an efficient answer to all of these old challenges. It provides a simple, immediate SaaS solution for any size enterprise to gain clarity and control over IT Hardware, Software and to be able to harness meaningful Business Intelligence straight-out-of-the-box.
With the assurance that comes with Certero’s completeness of inventory and depth of asset information, Certero can transform your ITAM & SAM process into one of readily available information, safe decisions and measurable business benefits… All from a convenient and modern Single Platform Solution that provides:
- IT Hardware Asset Management across all Windows, Mac, Linux, zLinux and Unix platforms with advanced Discovery & Inventory, ITAM & Virtualization Connectors for total network coverage.
- Automated Software Asset Management covering all Wintel vendors straight-out-of-the-box with automated reconciliation and optimization of entitlement benefits for Microsoft & Adobe… all dynamically maintained in real-time as the IT estate changes. Automated Software Usage Metering allowing you to simply measure the usage of all software at all times to identify the typical *30% of overspend on unused and underused software assets that can be safely eliminated.
- Automated Software Recognition to identify and categorize all discovered software, including how it’s licensed, how it needs to be commercially managed and helping you to identify whether it’s a potential security risk.
Single Platform Benefits
A Single Source of the Truth & A Single UI with all asset information consolidated and cleansed by default within the single platform, detailed information is readily available through a Single User Interface – a single Business Intelligence solution, providing meaningful insight and convenient, focused reporting, customizable user ‘dashboards’ trend analysis and alerting at any management level.
Rapid Time-To-Value with a solution provisioned in hours/days, simply as SaaS or On-premise.
Fundamental asset Data Quality, Depth & Detail such as MS SQL versions, editions, Clusters, data paths, reporting and analysis services or MS Exchange Server editions, mail boxes, mail box sizes & mail box features in use.
ISO 27001 Accredited Solution & Vendor for security end-to-end.
Class-Leading Support & Services, with the vendor with the happiest customers in SAM, as evidenced by customers reviews verified by Gartner’s Peer Insights.
Scope to Grow and Digitally Transform IT
There’s plenty of additional scope to add solutions to further compliment Enterprise Standard Edition, with each asset management discipline brought on to the single platform removing the overhead and complexity of managing disparate solutions. Options include:
- Datacenter License Optimisation for Oracle, SAP and IBM
- Cloud’ infrastructure and cost management (IaaS & PaaS) including Microsoft Azure, AWS and (coming soon) Google
- SaaS Licence Optimization, including Office365, Salesforce.com, G-Suite, Zoom, Adobe +more
- Mobile Device & Application Management for Android & iOS
- Advanced ITAM and SAM with Software Distribution and Device / User Access Control (see Enterprise Premium Edition)
- Self-Service App Store and Password Reset
Time-to-Value
Certero’s focus on Time-to-Value is the measure of how quickly you can get to grips with your asset information and begin to make decisions and changes that benefit the business.
Certero has the capability to support customers throughout all stages and can provide complementing, direct ITAM & SAM services if required, to address any licensing challenge and to make sure you’re not simply left with a solution that is not or cannot be used. This on-going focus is why Certero customers report the shortest implementation times and the highest rates of satisfaction of any major SAM vendor.
