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IT Asset Management today is faster to implement, more accurate, configurable, and information-rich. As a result of its merger with BDNA, ITAM specialist PS’Soft delivers on its technology innovation strategy with a solution meeting the needs of this next generation Asset Management.

Levallois-Perret, 20 October 2009: PS’Soft, a BDNA Corporation Company, announces today the general availability of a new offering which covers all areas of IT Asset Management within an integrated, comprehensive and scalable solution. This solution will help businesses optimize the way they manage their hardware and software resources, in line with the TIL V3 best practices.

IT Asset Management traditionally focused on office IT, mainly workstations and laptops. Today, it covers a much broader, and therefore business-critical, spectrum of IT assets, including servers, mobile devices, data centers, virtual environments, cloud computing and Green IT. This Next Generation IT Asset Management must provide an active reference basis supporting right and controlled decision-making, in turn contributing to the governance of information systems.

The new PS’Soft solution IT Asset Management Next Generation (ITAM^NG), leverages cutting-edge technology, developed as a result of the merger between PS’Soft and BDNA, a provider of agentless IT asset discovery solutions, earlier this year. ITAM^NG is a flexible, configurable solution that enables businesses to align their specific needs with the types of assets being managed and different types of management requirements. «This new solution is a result of our determination to lead the market and drive innovation within the IT management market», said Sophie Faye, PS’Soft Marketing & Communication Director EMEA. «ITAM^NG is a unique solution, leveraging the BDNA enriched catalogs and the Asset Management database to radically change the IT Asset Management market perspective and enable the implementation of real Business Service Management and CMDB strategies».

Natively integrated into ITAM^NG, the BDNA agentless IT asset discovery solutions automatically collect in a matter of hours full details of all IT assets in the network, and enrich each item with rich contextual information thanks to its extensive product catalogue.

« ITAM^NG confirms the relevance of the PS’Soft and BDNA merger and reinforces our position as the most credible alternative to very large, integrated vendors », said Stéphane Lhenry, Vice President Sales of PS’Soft. «We are the only independent specialist in IT Asset and Service Management to offer a global, integrated Next Generation IT Asset Management solution. ITAM^NG perfectly meets the needs of the market and several customers have already adopted the solution. We plan to migrate our entire customer’s base within 12 to 15 months and use this technology advance to reinforce our leadership in France and in Europe”.

Comprehensive, precise management of assets

Built on a unique repository, the ITAM^NG solution helps IT department cut costs and influence corporate decision making by managing the physical, financial and contractual aspects of IT assets. From purchase to retirement, including inventory, asset management, licensing and contracts, it helps organizations manage the asset life cycle and anticipate decision making on application deployments, redeployments and other key projects. The ITAM^NG solution provides vital visibility to the organization’s strategic operations and enables to align specific needs with the type of assets being managed (hardware, software, mobile devices, applications, virtual environments, data centers, etc.) as well as the different types of management requirements.

A powerful, fully configurable workflow engine can be used to manage all asset life cycle management processes, including delivery, installation, redeployment, repairs and retirement. This approach ensures that the hardware and software management processes introduced are suited to the asset life cycle, and delivers measurable performance gains.

In addition to managing hardware devices, PS’Soft provides efficient software license management. The ITAM^NG solution ensures that the software licenses installed within organization are fully compliant, effectively averting the legal risks of piracy and non-compliance. An integrated software library (PS’Soft software library) makes software inventory and compliance monitoring simpler and more reliable. PS’Soft Software library lists thousands of COTS software titles, so IT managers can monitor the installed base and reconcile purchase data.

PS’Soft has designed a preconfigured software suite with built-in, ready to use connectors. More specifically, the ITAMNG solution provides standard connectors to the market’s main tools (inventory, software distribution, ERP, active directory, etc.), so that customers can leverage their existing investments and pool master data. The IT Purchasing Management option is used for financial management. It tracks purchase requests and handles stock control, orders, deliveries and allocations, budgeting and depreciation tracking. The Financial Asset Management option can be used to set up internal and external recharging functions based on services provided.

ITAM^NG comes with dynamic reports and dashboards including key performance indicators (KPIs). Based on PS’Soft IT Business Intelligence, the solution provides analysis and reports on asset management operations, along with specific dashboards and monitoring charts for each division (corporate, financial, IT).

What’s new about the PS’Soft ITAM^NG solution

- Web 2.0 architecture based on .Net and AJAX technology
- A completely reworked interface
- Enriched catalogs based on BDNA technology (including more detailed classification, datacenter data, Green IT data, …)
- Enhanced asset management capabilities (procurement cycle, stock management, financial tracking of assets)
- Advanced license management (hundreds of thousands of existing references from Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Business Object, …)
- Dynamic dashboards and analysis
- Enhanced, user-oriented interface for business process automation
- Agentless inventory technology
- Centralized administration console
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About PS’Soft

Founded in France in 1991, PS’Soft is a global specialist in IT asset and service management. Its product line-up caters for the full range of requirements of medium to large enterprises seeking to streamline and control their resources, effectively manage their infrastructures, cut costs and deliver better quality of service to their users: asset management, helpdesk and service management, software license compliance, service delivery, service level agreements, and business process management. PS’Soft has offices in Mountain View, Paris, Stuttgart and London, and a R&D center in Sophia-Antipolis. PS’Soft solutions are installed on nearly 2,000 customer sites worldwide.

PS’Soft is a BDNA Corporation company, the leading provider of IT infrastructure inventory and analysis solutions.

For further information, please visit our website: www.pssoft.com