Centennial Discovery 2007 Eases Management of IT Hardware and Software Assets
Centennial Software, developer of IT asset discovery and endpoint security solutions, today announced Centennial Discovery 2007, the latest version of the company’s award-winning IT asset discovery software. The new release features powerful migration planning and reporting tools designed to help companies more easily and efficiently manage and budget the enterprise-wide adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista™. Centennial Discovery 2007 also offers new web reports and audit enhancements for IPv6 networks and Windows CE-based devices, along with a number of core product enhancements that improve overall IT asset management (ITAM), software asset management (SAM), specific project management and general IT governance.
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“Migration to Microsoft Windows Vista is likely to be the biggest and most costly software project most companies will undertake in the next 24 months,” said Andy Burton, CEO of Centennial Software. “Discovery 2007 includes the tools necessary to audit all network assets, assess whether they meet minimum Vista requirements and accurately plan and budget for upcoming migration initiatives. Companies are increasingly recognizing the unnecessary costs they incur in managing software, making this type of network discovery the foundation for any organization that wants to improve overall IT visibility and efficiency.”
Centennial Discovery is the industry’s leading solution for network inventory and IT asset management. It offers businesses and the channel community the most powerful and comprehensive software tool available for dynamically finding, identifying and auditing all corporate hardware and software on a network. Discovery is also the first solution to help users investigate unknown software—through the ‘Discovery.Portal’—to identify developers, usage and licenseability of the software.
New Centennial Discovery 2007 Features
* Full Windows Vista Support and Upgrade Reporting—this includes auditing Windows Vista client machines, the ability to install the Discovery Server on a Windows Vista-based machine for evaluation purposes, and new template-based upgrade wizard reporting that enables administrators to properly plan, budget and resource the operating system upgrade projects.
* Web Reports—new web reports for hardware changes, software changes, last contact, deployment status, under-licensed software and asset status for security vulnerability charts.
* Auditing of IPv6 Clients—ability to return IPv6 addresses identified as part of a client audit and correctly display the information in the General and Systems tabs in the Windows Control Center.
* Auditing of Windows CE-based Devices—report on hardware and software installed on Windows CE-based smartphones and pocket PCs.
* Template-based Upgrade Wizards—a more robust and intuitive approach to hardware and application upgrade planning with new templates.
* Selectable Secure/Auto Client Update—the ability to select specific machines to receive secure client updates, rather than having all machines updated simultaneously (this can help dramatically reduce network bandwidth usage).
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