Everybody who has a small business knows how important is to have a well managed and recorded inventory of the assets. A failure to do so, would result in profits' detriment making the company or the corporation to go out of business. In the special case of IT companies, their inventories are normally their hardware, human ware and software tools. Their merchandise is delivered by their minds in the shape of ideas. IT companies, whether they develop software or they deliver tech support through a call center, are susceptible to loss the control of their hardware or software that their employees are using, and sometimes controls performed with excel or paper worksheets can turn into a mess when the company has exceeded certain size. Microforge LTD has some ideas about how to control the hardware and the software in their assets by creating a chain of tools that can manage their inventories. In this case, I’m reviewing a part of that chain of tools. Inventory manager lite, is a standalone application that can have the records of computers, hardware parts, software installed, platforms and vendors. It may take a while to load all the data into de database, but, after it is completed in a 60% or 70% the tool can begin delivering good results. I think it will be convenient for a business or a company with 20 computers or more, but nobody is restricted to buy it. I would really like see it working with the other part of the tool chain: IT Helpdesk, Calendar, Reporting, Network monitor and Administration in a WAN across 2 or 3 buildings.
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