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RETURN ON INVESTMENT

IT spending must be justified by ROI – Return on Investment - an acceptable and measurable return on the cost of purchase and support. ROI can come in the form of reduced labour and other cost, improved efficiency or better information that saves money in other areas.

In estimating the ROI for Desktop Auditor, the following factors come into consideration:

The cost of manual data-gathering by people walking around from PC to PC
Inaccuracies and inconsistencies in manually recorded data – human error is pervasive and typically causes a number of cycles of re-checking and consolidation
The immediacy of data – as soon as it’s collected it starts going out of date
The completeness of data – have all machines been checked, including remote machines, hidden PCs and seldom-connected laptops?

Desktop Auditor eliminates the cost of manual data gathering. By definition, reported information is accurate – each machine reports its own configuration, properties and software installed. Data is always up to date – the Auditor Engine is continually scanning and gathering the latest information. And there are no gaps in the data – Desktop Auditor knows about and checks every computer on the network.

Desktop Auditor is installed in less than five minutes on any PC on the network (a server, for instance or your own desktop) and does not need clients to be installed on the target machines. Auditing is transparent to all network users and both CPU usage and network traffic generated by the auditing process are negligible.