Miradore Software Asset Management

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Miradore Software Asset Management
Miradore provides complete software asset lifecycle management,featuring accurate software inventory and recognition, software usage measuring, and means for managing financial and contractual aspects of the software.

Inventory collection
Miradore scans managed devices at regular, configurable intervals and collects comprehensive information of installed software and executable files found from the devices. The information contains dozens of details (e.g. file size or path) describing the properties of detected applications and files.

the inventory data is automatically normalized and transformed into more understandable form including precise software title, version, edition, manufacturer, category, as well as information whether the application is part of a software suite. As an alternative to the software catalog, Miradore provides a way to define custom-made rules for software recognition. The custom software recognition rules can be used to supplement or replace the use of software catalog in the software recognition process. Using both methods parallel ensures that both: in-house applications and commercial applications can be recognized accurately in any given environment.

Reporting
After the automated software recognition, Miradore’s out-of-the-box reports provide comprehensive information of what software or which software versions are installed in the environment and which devices have some certain software installed. Miradore also maintains a software change log which displays changes to devices’ software installations during a given time period. All reports are customizable and can be saved for future use with personalized settings. The reports can be also shared with other, selected Miradore users or exported into a file (e.g. PDF or Excel sheet).

Recognition
Then Miradore analyzes the collected data using a software catalog, which is a ready-made database of commercial applications enabling accurate and automated identification of over 30 000 applications and 200 000 exes. During the recognition process,

Inventory & Recognition

Reporting & Deployment

Compilance Audit & Monitoring

Upgrades & Disposal

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Miradore provides complete software asset lifecycle management,featuring accurate software inventory and recognition, software usage measuring, and means for managing financial and contractual aspects of the software.

Deployment
Miradore’s software packaging feature enables to build installation packages, which are basically collections of automated tasks used to perform administrative tasks for a computer. These tasks may include installing, modifying, or uninstalling software ,for example. Once an installation package is ready, it can be used to remotely install/uninstall software or drivers to/from a managed computer. The installation packages can be distributed to a single or multiple devices at once, or they can be attached to some certain location, organization, operating system, or device role to enable automated software installation based on device properties. For device end-users Miradore provides a

Detection of unauthorized software
Miradore allows to define known software titles as allowed or prohibited, which makes it is easy to detect whenever a prohibited software is installed to a managed device in the environment. In addition, for iOS based mobile devices administrators can also define restrictions for certain applications (e.g. YouTube or multiplayer gaming) and content.

issues can be avoided, and leftover licenses can be easily detected and eliminated thus resulting in cost savings.

Usage monitoring
Miradore meters software usage on managed Windows devices. The usage information shows for example how often a certain software has been started or how long it has been running.

License compliance monitoring
Miradore license manageament enables storing software license agreements into Miradore and associating them with software that the license grants rights to use. After that, Miradore automatically counts the installations of different software titles and reconciles them with the purchased software licenses. The license costs and compliance are then reported in easy-to-read reports that quickly show the current license balance. In addition, Miradore helps to optimize license utilization and purchasing by automatically allocating software licenses to users or assets and by providing up-to-date information about the actual usage of licensed software. As a result, the burden of license administration is minimized, license compliance

Upgrade and disposal
With the help of Miradore’s comprehensive reporting and group distribution tool, it is easy to plan and roll-out software upgrades or new software even in a highly diverse environments or multiple different locations in a controlled manner. The old software which are retired from use can also be saved as history information in the system.

web-based Self service portal, which they can use to request software and even independently start installation of such software installation packages that administrators have created and configured to be available through the Self service portal. If necessary, administrators can use an approval workflow to control the self service software installations or even disable the whole functionality from the Self service portal from certain users.

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