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On-site or remote inventory


An accurate assessment of a company’s IT assets is a strategic prerequisite for any change or upgrade.
ECS’ inventory solutions give clients the information IT Directors and users, whenever they need it.

A physical inventory offers an accurate breakdown of the elements of your IT assets at a given time:
  • Administrative inventory: identifies users and their location, describes equipment (make, model, serial n°, status, etc),
  • Complete inventory: to complete the administrative inventory, ECS can conduct a detailed description of the components of the machine (IP address, processor, clock frequency, RAM, hard disk, software, etc)
  • Labelling equipment.

Remote inventory in ASP mode
gives accurate, automatic, permanent visibility over your IT assets:
  • On-line remote inventory (SaaS) for machines in an Windows environment: desktops, laptops and servers
  • Data on CPUs, monitors, local and network printers and software inventoried
  • Consult and export data at any time via a simple web-based console
  • Support from ECS for using the web console
  • 6 or 12-month service.
Advantages of the ECS physical inventory
  • Can be tailored to the company’s specific requirements. Wide geographical coverage.
  • The expertise of an ITIL-accredited Asset Analyst.

Advantages of the ECS remote inventory
  • No installation required on the inventoried machines or the infrastructure.
  • Solution recommended by the Business Software Alliance and ITIL-compliant ITIL : EasyVista Discovery
  • 200,000 transcoding rules and library of over 160,000 software packages guarantee accurate information.
ECS solutions offer the following key benefits:
  • Accurate knowledge of your IT assets: upgrade planning, lease contract information.
  • A reliable, accurate source of data for implementing and updating a CMDB
  • All the necessary data for effective software licence management: avoid unnecessary investments.
  • Improved quality of service for users via permanent, up-to-date information on their workstation environment.