Having different hardware assets with your organization often makes it a difficult task to manage and have the instant knowledge about them. Have you been looking for something that can help you to keep the proper record of available hardware and software on your computer network? You might like to try a hardware and software inventory utility that is specifically designed to address such requirements. This utility is rather convenient to operate since it need not be installed on the remote machines. It helps us to generate the reports that can be transferred to a database or spreadsheet. Need not to find it here and there. Here I will recommend a powerful and popular hardware and software inventory utility to you. That is Hardware Inspector. Let's go and view the features and benefits of it now!

Hardware Inspector is a computer hardware and software inventory solution, which aims at keeping a record of maximum data on assets: installations, transfers, maintenance, accounting and warranty data, retirement facts, etc. Each asset has several ways for identification: specification, inventory and serial numbers, barcodes, etc. All this provides for strict and precise asset management. Hardware Inspector is available in three versions. The desktop version, a client server version and a web based version. Hardware Inspector is useful for IT department managers, system administrators, service desk staff and support technicians. The desktop Hardware inspector and the client server based versions not only report on current assets, they also track asset history. The hardware Inspector Service Desk, the web based version is able to provide users/support personnel effective communication via a web interface. The key functions and advantages of this hardware and software inventory utility include:

With Hardware Inspector we can get detailed hardware inventory. Each device acquires a specification identifying its purchase details, location, technical parameters, maintenance and transfer history.

With Hardware Inspector we can get detailed software inventory. Each license acquires a specification identifying its purchase details, place of installation, parameters and transfer history among workplaces.

The built-in Service Desk of Hardware Inspector provides close follow-up of support requests submitted to the IT-department. It keeps a record of message history, attached files and the like.

Hardware Inspector keeps track of expendables issued to and from the storage place which comes in handy when planning expected demand on a statistical basis.

Hardware Inspector features a unique and convenient view mode - tree of departments and workplaces. The tree of workplaces can be viewed in two ways: as a departments tree and as a map. The devices assigned to a workplace are displayed in a hierarchical pattern. For example, a motherboard belongs to a chassis, a CPU to the motherboard, etc.

Hardware Inspector keeps a record of maintenance of devices and workplaces. All facts stored as well as close integration with requests and device histories help to make an impartial and objective assessment of performed work quickly.

Hardware Inspector possesses several features to make inventory sessions as easy and painless as possible: barcode scanner support, an inventory module that can turn your laptop into a portable data terminal, inventory status reports and history. Besides barcoding there are four other options for asset inventory.

Hardware Inspector can compare if the database data matches the data in system information reports and find all deviations: missing devices, updated network parameters, etc. It has improved mechanisms for unambiguous device identification, data import and processing.

Hardware Inspector keeps an extensive record of every asset. All devices have individual transfer, maintenance, colocation and inventory histories. Every license has maintenance and transfer history.

Hardware Inspector provides three options for data input. Devices can imported from system information reports, generated ASTRA, ASTRA32, EVEREST(Corporate Edition) or AIDA32. It can save us the trouble of having to input much manual data. System information tools can read low-level information about our hardware, identifying device model, manufacturer and its web address, production date, serial number and other technical parameters described by the manufacturer. Also, data can be imported from a CSV file. Otherwise all data can be entered manually.

Hardware Inspector provides a large variety of built-in reports. "Device specification", "Workplace specification", "License specification", "List of inventory numbers", "List of IP addresses", "List of devices", "Services performed", etc. These reports can be exported into PDF, MS Word, MS Excel, Open Office and other formats. There is a built-in report designer to help us customize our report templates as well as create our own reports.

Hardware Inspector has many effective data search tools. Data can be searched with the help of filters, i.e., by devices, licenses or expendables. Besides, there is the "Database query" feature for a more precise data search.

Hardware Inspector provides flexible data access permission. Access rights can be restricted at three levels: access to program features, to workplaces tree nodes and device types. For instance, personnel can be denied access to the IT-department storage. Moreover, one database on the file server can be concurrently available to several users.

Overall, Hardware Inspector is a well organized asset management system for us. It provides a free trial for us but many functions are disabled. It is a standalone software and does not need any extra software and hardware requirement. Hardware Inspector does not contain any adware or spyware. It works with most recent variants of Windows. With all these features, simple interface, excellent usability, and free trial period - why are you still reading? Download the free trial now and experience what powerful and effective it is at once!

Hardware Inspector is designed for automating the stocking and inventory of computer hardware and other equipment in businesses. Inventory is extremely necessary to the IT department managers, network administrators, and to other qualified personnel.

This inventory tracking automation solution tracks PCs, their configuration, hardware installed, serial numbers for IT equipment or their parts, and other critical IT inventory data. The software is capable of importing data from ASTRA, ASTRA32, EVEREST or AIDA32 reports, and all current IT inventory information can be entered with a single mouse click. The program comes with a powerful and straightforward reporting module, capable of creating a variety of useful reports.

Are you familiar with the situation when you could no longer keep all the information on your office computer park in your head? - When did you buy the equipment? Where did you buy it? Is the warranty still enforced? Have some units been irresponsibly replaced by someone? This program will give you the answers to all these and many other questions.

Hardware Inspector's feature is its abilities to keep records of not only the hardware's current state, but also every hardware unit's life history.

Why Hardware Inspector?
1. Easy to install and use.
2. Supports Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP operating systems.
3. Low system requirements.
4. Keeps records of every hardware device - not the workstations' general overview.
5. Monitors history of hardware transfers, repairs, and maintenance.
6. Besides manual data entry, the software supports data import from the common computer configuration analysis program - ASTRA, ASTRA32, EVEREST and AIDA32. This will relieve you from the routine database maintenance work.
7. Automatic acquisition of detailed information on the hardware.
8. Maintains a uniform database of unique information that often cannot be retrieved by a visual check of the hardware: e.g. serial numbers of memory modules, manufacture date, hardware"s technical properties, etc.
9. Convenient representing of hardware's location in a tree-like department view.
10. Powerful hardware search engine.
11. Flexible data access management.
12. Great number of reports: "Hardware Profile", "Workstation Report", "List of Hardware", "Stock Numbers", "Workstation Output", "Maintenance Performed" etc.
13. Capability of exporting the reports into MS Excel sheets based on user-defined templates.
14. Unlimited number of serviced databases.
15. Supports multi-user online access to databases.
16. Customizable interface.
17. Storing information on all hardware and processing the information using one database allows prompt retrieving various information: from data on a specific hardware unit through technical support"s report on the work that has been done.
18. Flexible pricing policy whereas the price for the program depends on the number of computers in the organization.
19. One purchased license entitles you for using the program on any number of computers within an organization.
20. Free program updates for one year since the software purchase date.
21. Free and prompt technical support.
22. The program is based on the real-life experience in maintenance and inventorying of several hundreds of computers. The software has been developed with a substantial input from our clients and beta-testers.

General features:
1. Keeping records of workstations with scaling up to individual hardware units. Each hardware unit gets a profile that holds information on the hardware purchase details, technical specifications, history of its transfers between workstations, and servicing.
2. Tree-like view of departments and workstations. Hardware units within a workstation are also displayed in a hierarchical tree-like view: e.g. motherboard is located inside the tower, CPU -inside motherboard, and cooler - inside CPU.
3. Units (groups of units) are easily moved across the workstations. Each event of such hardware transfer is automatically recorded in the hardware"s history.
4. The software maintains history of repairs and other maintenance activities for each hardware unit.
5. Capabilities of both manual and automatic data entry into the database. The automatic entry of new hardware units is carried out by importing the hardware descriptions from ASTRA, ASTRA32 and AIDA32 reports. This will relieve you from the routine initial data entry job. The configuration analysis program reads data imprinted into the hardware. Thus, it detects the unit model, its manufacturer, the manufacturer"s www-address, manufacture date, serial number (for HDDs, CPUs, monitors, memory modules and motherboards), and many other technical specifications. Depending on the specific hardware unit, some of the properties may be unlisted by the manufacturer.
6. Great number of reports ("Hardware Profile", "Workstation Profile", "Stock Numbers", "IP-Addresses", "Overall Hardware List", "Maintenance Performed for the Time Period" etc.) Now you can easily give an account on the company"s hardware to the accounting office or the chief.
7. Capability of exporting the reports into MS Excel sheets. User may personally configure the report templates, which are the Excel files describing the reports" structure.
8. The search engine will help you find the hardware unit (or group of units) by a specific criterion. The search filter may include such hardware properties as: type, model, manufacturer, seller, stock number, serial number, search string, etc.
9. Supports unlimited number of databases.
10. Flexible access permissions. A wide list of access rights to the program"s functions and data allows a very flexible ability configuration for each database user.
11. Supports networking; i.e. the same data can be accessed simultaneously by a number of users.
12. Capability to export hardware units found through the filter to MS Excel.
13. The software includes procedures for maintaining the data integrity and performing the database recovery.
14. Keeping records of the hardware warranty periods and predicting their expiration.
15. Keeping records of the accounting information on the purchased hardware (when, where at, from who, and by what documents the hardware has been purchased.)
16. Keeping records of stock numbers, which can (if desired) be assigned for each hardware unit.
17. Information on a workstation: person in charge, IP-addresses, maintenance period, etc.
18. Copying computers to other workstations in order to speed up the routine data entry process.
19. Customizable interface. The interface text can be easily configured by IMSEditor - the software supplied with Hardware Inspector.
20. Hardware description modifications are automatically logged and include the date and the name of the operator who has made the changes.
21. The database information"s accuracy is monitored by the workstations" revisions. Each revision is a record containing a report generated by ASTRA or AIDA32 software. The report analyzer will tell you whether the found new hardware is listed in the database and (if not) will help you enter it.
22. Detailed reports on the problems occurring on a user"s workstation while working with specific program provides the developer with means to fix the problems.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $80.00, you can free download and get a free trial.