 Centennial Discovery - At A Glance
Whether the aim is licence compliance, OS Migration, Network Mergers or simply better IT Management, the key to any IT 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 Centennial Discovery.
With its marketing-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 your organisation.
Thanks to its 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 licences sold around the world, Centennial Software is the vendor of choice for fast, easy and accurate IT auditing and analysis.
Licence 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 organization – 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 unauthorized installations
- Maintain compliance with automatic re-audit
IT Asset Security - Respond quickly to threats inside the enterprise
Centennial Discovery helps organizations secure the network by tracking the version details of software across the enterprise, alerting administrators to the presence of unwanted files types (mp3, mpg, jpg etc.) and pinpointing the presence of unauthorized hardware.
- Discover all software, hardware and network devices
- Track software version & patch status
- Identify unauthorized 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 organization. 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 Optimization - 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 organizations 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 walk round audits.
- Build complete inventory of all IT resources automatically
- Understand real value of IT assets
- Identify unauthorized purchases
- Track leased equipment
Centennial Discovery enables managers to take control of the IT infrastructure by identifying and monitoring all IT assets across the organization. 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 will find them - all of them. Centennial Discovery is available in English, French, German and Spanish language versions.
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 Discovery |
Identification of unauthorized 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 organization 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 from 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 |
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 center |
| Secure Web Access |
Provide access to Centennial Discovery reports to multiple authorized (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 organization to realize immediate and tangible benefits straight away |
Click here for the Centennial Discovery Frequently Asked Questions
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To achieve the best results from your audit, Product Training will provide the knowledge and process of using the software effectively, these days will be repaid in man-days saved several times over.
Under 75 PCs - a complete Managed Service, including Electronic Audit, License Collection & Reconciliation along with advice and guidance for Policies and Procedures.
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