A reader’s small shop is starting to strain at the seams. With 30 users equipped with a mix of desktop and notebook PCs, monitoring licensing compliance has turned into a chore. The company is too small for Tivoli or SMS, but too big to just throw all the paperwork into a shoebox and hope it makes sense if they’re ever audited. How do they keep track of licensing reliably? What’s the best way to prevent users from installing unauthorized software? Are there software management tools that can help a company that’s not in the Fortune 500?
