Technical Details for CA AimIT Enterprise Edition 3.1

CA AimIT Enterprise Edition 3.1 ... mobile devices need to be supported, as do numerous clients, including Windows, Linux, MacOS, UNIX, among many others. In order to manage today's complex mix of IT resources effectively, organizations need a comprehensive asset management solution. This solution forms the foundation for effective eBusiness management by automatically collecting and updating information about all managed resources. This information can then be used within the asset management application itself, or with other applications, to enhance their functionality, such as software distribution, help desk, and financial applications. A comprehensive asset management solution has several requirements, including integration with strategic management systems throughout the enterprise and the ability to define additional information for assets and extend detection capabilities to specific hardware, software, and settings. The solution also requires scalability in its collection of asset information, flexibility in providing management capabilities that correspond with an organization's individual requirements, and ease-of-use, implementation, and maintenance without requiring special hardware, software, or changes to an IT environment. It must have utility-grade dependability, especially if it is to serve as the foundation for other applications.

AimIT - asset and inventory management software - meets all these requirements and delivers immediate benefits to the enterprise. AimIT is a comprehensive solution for proactively managing IT assets in any eBusiness environment. It provides system-wide policy-based management through automated inventory, configuration management, software metering, auditing, and extensive reporting capabilities. This option helps to reduce the total cost of ownership by minimizing the need to visit individual users for routine management and improve the ability to execute eBusiness strategies by providing information, knowledge, and infrastructure to quickly implement, change, or re-architect systems supporting new initiatives. AimIT controls software costs by metering and auditing software usage, allowing an organization to buy only what is needed. It improves service levels by providing accurate information about hardware, software, and configurations, and notifying the help desk when problems are detected.