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E-Z Audit Pre-Sales FAQ
Can I try E-Z Audit free before I decide?
Yes!
Download a free evaluation
Want a 5-second audit of your PC?
Get a demo of what we consider a Basic audit, same as
what competitors consider a complete audit, and see how
fast and easy we are. Our full product offers a
lot more so use the demo as an appetizer for what
the full E-Z Audit product can do.
Take me to the demo
Tell me how your licensing works
It's easy and generous.
Licenses are based on an inexpensive
1-year subscription, and include:
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All
updates and even full-version upgrades during the
subscription period
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All the
modules, including On-Demand auditing and Remote
audits
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Complete
technical support from our own in-house tech team
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Unlimited
"Admin" installs so you can share data with your
entire support staff, management, or anyone you want
within your company!
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Renewals
are at 50% what your original purchase was, and
subsequent renewals are at 60% off of the current
prices in effect at the time or renewal.
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Large
licenses (1000 PC or higher) available in multi-year
bundles at very attractive discounts.
Do I need to install anything to the PCs I will be auditing?
No!
The only installation happens at
your own PC. Nothing is installed or changed on
your PC's that will be audited.
Do I need to install anything on my server or run any services on it?
No!
On your server you just
create a couple of folders and copy three files to it
and add one line to your logon script. Nothing
runs at the server and nothing gets changed at your
server.
Do I have to make
changes to Remote Registry, change firewall settings or
depend on opening ports of any kind?
No.
Unlike most freeware audit
programs that are little more than a bunch of WMI-based
VBScript wrapped in a GUI, we don't rely solely or even
mostly on WMI, do not use SNMP nor require any changes
to ports, firewalls, remote registry or anything else.
Do you
depend on WMI or reading the registry to get software
details or do you actually read whole hard drives to get
your data?
We read the whole hard drive on our
Full Audits.
Most competing products only tell you what Windows
thinks
is installed. Someone copying and .EXE file to a
PC or using a non-standardized installer will have software
on their PC that won't be found without a full drive scan.
WMI based alternatives do not scale up, are much slower,
and are far more network intensive.
How fast are audits?
Very fast.
The Basic audit has what most users want
and takes about 5-10 seconds to run.
The Full audit
reads all the local drives on a PC for program files and, at
your discretion, other types of system files, non-program
files like Word documents, or pretty much whatever
extensions you want. Depending how many file types you
want to audit and how many files and programs are on the PC
or server being audited the times will vary. Typically
it's between one and three minutes. The impact on the
PC is minimal so there should be no disruption to the user.
What's the load on our server likely to be?
Tiny.
Unlike "discovery" type products, E-Z Audit does not
generate continual network traffic as it reaches out to do
it's job.
Consider it similar to a user launching notepad.exe from your server.
That's about the hit we're talking about.
What kind of reports can I get?
Reports are all point-and-click and you
can get them intuitively from almost everywhere in the
program depending on what data you are exploring.
Exports to universal CSV and tab-delimited formats as well
as to Access and HTML. You can also export all PC
summary and basic audit data to a single HTML master report
that you can easily share on your intranet in a couple of
clicks.
Can I audit remote users that are not on our network?
Can I set what to audit and when? What
sort of control do I have over the process?
How does Total Control sound?
You can decide how often you want PC's audited, you can force a
new audit whenever you want it, and you can even audit on
demand with the included E-Z
Audit On Demand add-on
Does my data get sent anywhere?
Never.
What happens on your
network stays on your network. Our data is encrypted
and saved locally on your servers. Bear that in mind
if you're looking at freeware that was established with
piles of venture capital money. Do you think they're
really giving it away? Your data is their data.
Simple as that.
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