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47 - March 2006
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To comply with the Copyright Ordinance, the Management Board endorsed the implementation of a Software Asset Management Scheme in the University in July 2002. To implement the scheme, two application systems have been developed for use by all departments. They are the Software Inventory System and the software scanning tool, named SAMScan. The Software Inventory System aims to assist departments in managing their software inventory and licensing information. It has been incorporated into AIMS under "Software Asset Management". Data on software acquisitions are extracted from purchase orders and added directly to the departmental inventory database. To assess the actual software that is used on each PC, SAMScan is made available to all staff. After SAMScan is run, management reports of SAMScan results will be made available in "Software Asset Management" in AIMS.
Two University-wide software asset assessment exercises had been conducted in 2002 and 2004. Along with the exercises, two versions of the systems had been launched. Based on the experience from the previous two assessment exercises, a new version of the Software Asset Management System (Version 5) was launched in January 2006 and is now available for departments to use. SAMScan 2005, the new version, provides many new features:
Under
AIMS, the Software Inventory System as well
as management reports of SAMScan results have
also been enhanced. The new features include:
For more details about Software Asset Assessment Exercise, please click the URL http://www.cityu.edu.hk/esu/SAM/AssEx/. |
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