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# Certero for Enterprise SAM

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> Certero for Enterprise SAM is a complete ITAM \&amp; SAM solution, providing everything an enterprise needs to discover, view, govern, report and actively secure and optimize costs across IT assets.&#10;&#10;The information Certero collects is vast; far beyond being 'just' a SAM solution, Certero provides a single, centralized and cleansed information source for your entire IT infrastructure; networks, computers, datacenters, attached and remote devices... everything. &#10;This creates a full and detailed information source from which much of the complex SAM processes can be automated as the fundamental understanding of what's out there becomes much clearer.&#10;&#10;A s license management solution, Certero helps businesses manage software licenses and streamline IT asset management operations via a unified platform. The centralized dashboard enables employees to monitor inventories, collect and process business data and conduct analysis in real-time.&#10;&#10;Discovered software is automatically identified and categorized though a Software Recognition Service (SRS) process, helping you to understand where business information is, who uses what, what software is required or not required and how that software is licensed and whether the investment cost is valuable to the business, or not.&#10;&#10;Certero for Enterprise SAM lets managers provide application access to specific users based on device names, locations, firewall settings, IP addresses and other factors. It offers a variety of features including database monitoring, access control, reporting and more. Additionally, it allows IT professionals to track software release dates, automate recurring tasks and mitigate security and compliance risks.&#10;&#10;Certero for Enterprise SAM facilitates integration with several third-party IT service management (ITSM), software asset management and configuration management databases (CMDBs) via APIs. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email and other online measures.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 6 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 6 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Certero
- **Founded**: 2006

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: USD 9.00
- **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Please contact Certero directly for pricing details: www.certero.com
- **Target Audience**: 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada and 49 more

## Features

- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Ad hoc Reporting
- Alerts/Notifications
- Approval Process Control
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Audit Management
- Audit Trail
- Categorisation/Grouping
- Compliance Management
- Configuration Management
- Contract/License Management
- Cost Tracking
- Customizable Fields
- Customizable Reports
- Data Import/Export
- Historical Reporting
- IT Asset Tracking

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [Software License Manager](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4637/license-management/software)

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## Reviews

### "An abundantly feature rich asset information tool" — 4.0/5

> **Nicholas** | *13 October 2016* | Hospital & Health Care | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Nice user dashboard
> 
> **Cons**: Trying to filter information based on queries
> 
> I have used this tool extensively in performing deep dives in pulling together asset information. Only issue I have had is trying to gather information on GPU memory allocation

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### "Excellent reports and easy to use" — 4.0/5

> **Clare** | *3 February 2016*
> 
> The product itself has improved our ability to pull off meaningful reports which has significantly reduced staff time and makes it easy for us to identify equipment/software which can be reused elsewhere and see at a glance where we have software licensing issues. Dashboard is an excellent feature where we have input some key charts/figures that we want to keep an eye on in real time.

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### "Great tool and excellent customer services" — 4.0/5

> **David** | *3 February 2016*
> 
> We took on a 12 month process to evaluate several ITAM tools and in the end Cetero was the clear winner. With the role out and training now completed we do not regret out decision and keep finding more and more useful way of using the tool to assist in day to day IT Support and Management.

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### "Great Tool to have as an asset" — 5.0/5

> **Amartey** | *25 October 2016*
> 
> Certero AssetStudio is a powerful tool that provides much more than just a regular SAM tool. It really helps with taking stock of assets and easy dashboards to identify trends and other useful information.

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### "User friendly and excellent asset management tool" — 5.0/5

> **Debbie** | *28 January 2016*
> 
> Reports back extensive details of hardware and software usage through a user friendly dashboard.&#10;Able to report on software usage to prevent unnecessary purchases.  &#10;Makes managing assets easy

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