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Centennial Discovery

Whether the aim is license compliance, OS migration, network mergers or simply better IT management, the key to any IT's project's success is knowing what you've got to work with. And to build an accurate and fast view of your deployed IT assets, you need Cenennial Discovery®

With it's market-leading Software Recognition Engine and unique LANProbe technology, Centennial Discovery is the only way to accurately identify software installed across the network, automatically audit all IP-addressable devices (including PCs, servers, network printers, firewalls and switches) and even track the physical location of machines around the organisation.

Thanks to it's efficient IP-based communications technology, Centennial Discovery can perform full systems audits on a weekly or even daily basis with virtually no impact on network performance. What's more it won't take six months to implement; Centennial Discovery users are often up and running in a single day.

With over four million licenses sold to blue-chip organisations around the world, Centennial Software is the vendor of choice for fast, easy and accurate IT auditing and analysis.

License Compliance

Avoid costly fines & reduce software spend

Centennial Discovery takes the pain out of software license management by automatically discovering and recording all software deployed throughout the organisation - making it easy to reconcile licenses of a particular application or create a global view of all software assets.

• Discover and monitor all software (local and remote)
• Manage compliance by prioritizing software
• Reconcile software in use against licenses held
• Alert on unauthorised installations
• Maintain compliance with automatic re-audits

IT Asset Security

Respond quickly to threats inside the enterprise

Centennial Discovery helps organisations secure the network by tracking the version details of software across the enterprise, alerting administrators to the presence of unwanted files (mp3, mpg, jpg etc) and pinpointing the presence of unauthorised hardware.

• Discover all software, hardware and network devices
• Track software version and patch status
• Identify unauthorised or dangerous software and file types
• Audit on daily or weekly basis with minimal network impact

Network Change Management & Business Planning

Simplify costing & planning with automated wizards

Centennial Discovery automatically builds a complete view of all hardware, network devices and software deployed across the organisation. Using detailed information and wizards in Centennial Discovery, firms can quickly assess the likely impact of proposed changes to the network.

• Quickly budget and plan for changes to the network
• Assess feasibility and network impact of proposed IT projects
• Identify requirements to support desired changes to IT systems
• Wizard templates enable rapid web-based reporting and planning

IT Resource Optimisation

Avoid unnecessary IT purchases & support business needs

Centennial Discovery enables managers to make informed decisions about the IT infrastructure. By monitoring all software, PCs and other network devices for changes in configuration, location and usage, managers can ensure that IT is supporting business needs.

• Automatically discover all IT assets
• Track the physical location of all devices
• Alert managers to under and over-used IT resources
• Plan upgrades with Discovery wizards

IT Inventory & Management

Fast, painless and cost-effective auditing of IT assets

Centennial Discovery enables organisations to better manage IT by establishing and maintaining an accurate record of the complete IT infrastructure, including physical location of hardware - without the need to conduct costly and disruptive walkround audits.

• Build complete inventory of all IT resources automatically
• Understand real value of IT assets
• Identify unauthorised purchases
• Track leased equipment

Centennial Discovery

Centennial Discovery enables managers to take control of the IT infrastructure by identifying and monitoring all IT assets across the organisation. Regardless of whether your company has 100 PCs in a single office or 100,000 computers spread across multiple territories and platforms, if they are connected to the network then Centennial Discovery with find them. All of them.

Centennial Discovery is available in English, French, German and Spanish language versions.

Download your free evaluation copy of Centennial Discovery today from
http://uk.insight.com/content/solutions/software/centennial-30-day-trial-downloads

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Weekly Centennial webinars are available at: http://www.centennial-software.com/resources/events/?partner=insight 

Product Features

Hardware Discovery	Automatic discovery of all IP-addressable hardware on the network - PCs, servers, switches, firewalls, network printers etc.
Software Discovery	Unique software recognition engine positively identifies more applications - dramatically reducing the time and cost of managing software on the network
File Type Disocvery	Identification of unauthorised and potentially harmful files on the network (mp3, mpg, jpg etc.) to aid compliance, security and network planning.
Physical Location Tracking	Monitor the location of each hardware resource in the organisation and automatically alert administrators to movements, additions and removals
"What If" Wizards	Advanced planning tools enable accurate planning and costing of changes to the network (hardware refresh, OS upgrade, version control etc.)
Multi-platform Support	Deployment options to cover all environments and operating systems for DOS to Windows XP/2003; plus Unix, Mac OS/X and Citrix support.
Network-friendly	IP-based communication for maximum performance and minimal impact on the corporate network; agents only report changes, reducing network traffic
Software Usage	Profiling individual software application usage provides invaluable management information and cost control
Change Management	Automatically track and record both location and configuration changes to devices with selectable change alerts, creating a full and accurate audit trail
Remote Auditing	Audit home and mobile users' machines through any available IP connections (remote network, virtual private network, internet dial-up etc).
Secure Communications	Secure deployment of client agents and encrypted communications between agents and control centre
Secure Web Access	Provide access to Centennial Discovery reports to multiple authorised (local and remote) users with secure password-protected browser-based reporting and analysis
Easy Integration	Open-schema ODBC compliant database enables easy exporting of audit data to other complementary solutions; simple configuration of access to third-party software within Discovery management console
Speed of Benefit	Centennial Discovery is renowned for its ease of use and intuitive interface, with users in many cases up and running in a single day. This enables the organisation to realise the immediate and tangible benefits straight away

Insight have a team of Experienced Technical Centennial Certified specialist who can help with training, consultancy and implementation for further details contact our SAM team today on 08701 633300 or email; samteam@uk.insight.com