BigFix Inventory Draft

BigFix Inventory

Maintain software audit readiness and mitigate security
risks with software compliance and usage management.

Dramatically reduce the time required to conduct a comprehensive software asset inventory for license reconciliation or compliance purposes. Provide valuable insight into what the organization owns—and what it has installed but does not own—along with how often the software is being used.

Software License Management

Compare discovered software against the number of available licenses to make better procurement decisions. Provides information on over 9,100 publishers, 38,000 software products and more than 105,000 application signatures out-of-the-box.

Multiple Discovery Types

Support six different forms of discovery including a Software Identification Catalog (ISO 19770 enabled), customized template signatures (for propriety and homegrown applications), an installation registry, vendor-specific discovery solutions, ISO SWID tags, and hardware discovery.

Asset Tracking

Identify aggregate application license counts, software usage statistics and license type compliance across all your endpoints including those in kubernetes containers.

Audit Enablement

Discover software, processes, file systems, and hardware plus monitor usage across operating systems to simplify audits and reduce fines.

Benefits

Reduce Audit Fines and Software Costs

Identify licensed and unlicensed software with drill-down granularity to reduce annual software expenditures and vendor-imposed software compliance penalties.

Increase Efficiency

Reduce the time, effort and inaccuracy of manual inventory and analysis by using a single source of continuous endpoint hardware and software asset discovery, license management, and usage analytics.

Improve Security

Help IT and Security organizations collaborate to secure the enterprise by monitoring for unauthorized software and removing software which pose a security threat.