The advantages to adding a discovery product that works cooperatively with SMS begin with extending the use and value of the current SMS deployment rather than deploying a secondary agent into the same sections of the network. If the data collected is then processed through an intelligence engine so that the end result data is suitable for comparison to licenses and purchasing data, the enhancement removes considerable effort scrubbing data.

Even greater SAM value is gained if the product appends data from numerous sources, including multiple SMS data collections as well as collection of more software discovered directly by the ITAM product or more details on the SMS discovered software.

Eracent's dedication to technical and process integration offers this level of integration within the EnterpriseAM product. EnterpriseAM augments SMS functionality by first including SMS data as the source to the knowledgebase and analysis functionality. With over 250,000+ entries, the end result is SMS data “scrubbed” and ready to be analyzed and reported for business and contractual management. A single database is created, regardless of the number of sources, eliminating time-consuming multiple sources.

EnterpriseAM, with the Network Probe functionality can gather data from the entire breadth of the networked environment, regardless of platform or architecture (Citrix, hosted, backend). The advantage to analysis and reporting capability for the entire realm of software asset management for the organization with EnterpriseAM and SMS offers good business value for the organization. Collaborative processes between EnterpriseAM and SMS offer many advantages including the following enhanced functionality with EnterpriseAM:

• Inventories computers on slow dialup connections and remote devices, even in a wireless LAN environment
• Detects duplicate SMS IDs
• Maintains an inventory and history of every active software file on the enterprise network
• Enhanced serial number and WMI support
• Complete web-based reporting
• UNIX and LINUX data integrated into the SMS database and process