Mastering System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager

Chapter 12

Asset Intelligence

System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager gives organizations better control over their information technology infrastructure and assets through Asset Intelligence technologies by enabling IT professionals to see what hardware and software assets they have, who is using them, and where they are. Asset Intelligence translates inventory data into information; this gives the IT professionals the ability to build reports to understand how these assets are being used in their environment.

ConfigMgr tracks nearly all the software assets on a network, providing comprehensive details about both physical and virtual applications installed across an enterprise. Asset Intelligence lets IT professionals define, track, and ...