Club Mahindra automates the process of software audit, to be software compliant by deploying mentdesk-asset navigator application.
About Mahindra Club:
Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd., (MHRIL) is a part of the Leisure and Hospitality sector of the Mahindra Group. MHRIL’s core IT team based out of Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore handles support requests from their Users from all parts of the country. IT team had the task of regular audit of all the IT Assets manually spread across the country to ensure Software Compliance by getting rid of any pirated software from these assets.
Challenges
- IT team found the manual audit process to be cumbersome and difficult to align to acceptable standards of Software compliance.
- It was very challenging in managing and auditing their IT Assets spread across 84 different locations in the Country.
Delivered Solution
- Asset Navigator enables automatic scheduled discovery of IT assets in the network that collates hardware, software details
- Required reports are generated that makes tracking the assets across locations easy.
- Instant notification of installed and uninstalled software alerts been sent to the IT Admin.
- Licensed and pirated software details are differentiated and reports are generated accordingly.
- All reports generated are sent automatically to their group ID for review.
Solution Impact
- Track the IT assets through an easy to use interface.
- Reduce the number of IT assets that miss the audit and ensure maximum percentage of software compliance.
- Identify and eradicate the pirated software in IT assets on a regular basis which reduces the overhead of massive one time manual audit.
- Individual asset or a batch of assets is audited for the existence of particular pirated software that enables faster action in case of any non-compliance.
- Any instance of false installation of pirated software on an asset can be checked and corrected from the tool to get accurate reports.
- Instant reports are emailed following the completion of network discovery, software audits that enables planning and taking action at the earliest.
- Time and effort taken to align to the defined software compliance standard for the organization is reduced by manifold.
- Amount spend in the past due to software noncompliance is saved with the use of Asset Navigator tool.
- Time and effort taken by IT agents to prepare the reports to auditors is saved to a great extent.