The Extremely easy to use KBOX™ Asset Management Appliance helps organizations to reduce costs and increase efficiencies in managing leases, warranties, and license agreements.

This consolidated and centralized approach to asset management is crucial for effectively managing the IT environment. Understanding what hardware and software are installed across an organization is the most basic step to effective asset management, but often one of the most difficult to complete accurately without a major investment in time and resources. The additional challenges of managing warranties and contracts, software compliance, secure environments, and efficient service desks overwhelm many organizations.

In turn, an asset management system that provides a detailed database of hardware and software inventory can help identify usage and potential efficiency improvements. In addition to desktops and servers, asset management should extend to printers, network equipment, and other high-value assets along with pertinent financial and contractual data such as vendor names and service and maintenance contract information, helping maintain a comprehensive view of asset information in a single data repository.

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The KBOX Asset Management Module focuses on automating noncomputer and computer inventory with asset management processes from deployment to retirement, including asset data auditing, tracking, compliance, and reconciliation. KBOX is designed to identify IT assets and keep them updated daily across an organization, utilizing a light agent for discovery and an efficient messaging protocol to communicate with a centralized configuration database. This approach enables frequent inventory updates without interrupting end users, helping to ensure accuracy and informed decision making.

Administrators can define software asset groups and perform daily tracking of associated licenses. Tracking for software compliance can be automated by defining filters to include current and future versions of applications across a vendor’s product line. Administrators can automatically monitor the number of installed licenses, even as new versions of an application become available, which is essential for managing software license agreements and negotiating ongoing volume purchases.

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Administrators can easily create new asset types and match their equipment with associated service contracts and software licenses. E-mail notifications and alerts can be configured and tied to contract expirations and renewals, allowing the system to be tailored to help meet the asset management and compliance needs of any organization.

KBOX asset management also enhances security by quickly identifying missing hardware or unapproved software or systems found on the network. Providing a comprehensive audit trail of asset changes, including software and hardware, helps increase visibility into unauthorized usage or unexpected changes, thereby advancing security. In addition, the integrated functionality of the KBOX Help Desk Module enhances the efficiency of service desk personnel, providing them with detailed system configuration information to help identify and resolve problems quickly.

For more Information or to Setup a Free ,No obligation fully functional trial of the KBOX then please contact,

Dean Barkhuizen

CARRERA SYSTEMS

Email: dean@carrera.co.za

SOLE IMPORTER OF THE KBOX - AFRICA