Software Audit

Here's a template/guideline you can use:

http://www.rim-tech.com/Quality%20Assurance%20Plan%20Template.pdf

http://sl.us.fsu.edu/compliance/

When I worked for small companies and I had to organize this, I manually drew up a chart listing all licensed software on one side and 5 or 6 computers along the top. I'd visit each computer and check off the software they had installed on their computers. Near the bottom of the software list, there were blank boxes for such things as software that came with scanner or shareware or other things installed on users computers.

If you have 70 computers, then the best option is to go to each computer and either check off the software installed from a chart that you have produced or to write down each piece of software.

There is also inexpensive software that you can use for Computer Inventory Management where you would need to input everything manually (mostly like an access database type of program that could associate hardware and software under an asset id and produce some reports for you) --> very expensive packages where almost everything would be automated.

I use a laptop and an Excel spreadsheet.

Lee