Visual Asset Manager™ The facilities and operational assets throughout your enterprise represent a major investment by the organization essential to achieving its mission. Yet too often this investment is neglected, those investments misplaced, and those assets turned into liabilities – by the simple inability to track where they are, what state they’re in, what they're worth and what should be done with them.
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Visual Asset Manager Enterprise delivers full enterprise asset management features in an turnkey package with optional modules and consulting service offerings. STANDARD FEATURESMapping
Tracking
Finding
Bar Coding
DiscoveryVisual Asset Manager's "workstation audit" feature provides an inventory of your Windows network workstation environment by automatically discovering software and hardware information. The workstation audit provides the flexibility to collect as much or as little information needed to manage your user desktops. Managing
MovingScan assets out of one location and into another. Track location and ownership of each asset, and manage moves of assets from one location to another - even across multiple sites of your organization. Reports
Sharing
VAM Architect
OPTIONAL ADD-ONSHandheld Scanner: Barcode and RFIDRecommended for organizations with a distributed asset management workforce. Enables “in-field” scanning of assets to manage inventory and track movement of assets, with automatic synchronization back to master and site databases. (Requires Data Synchronization module, below.) Supports popular Windows Mobile platforms including Symbol, Intermec, Compaq iPaq, and more. Tablet PC Data CollectionRecommended for organizations with a distributed asset management workforce. Enables “in-field” data collection including scanning and human input of assets to manage inventory and track movement of assets, with automatic synchronization back to master and site databases. (Requires Data Synchronization module, below.) Supports popular Windows XP Tablet platforms including Acer, HP, Motion Computing, NEC, Sharp, Toshiba, ViewSonic, and others. Data SynchronizationSynchronizes asset inventories and moves across multiple instances of Visual Asset Manager, and between the Visual Asset Manager database and handheld scanners and tablet PCs using the modules above. Handheld scanners are used for principle data entry and day-to-day movement of physical assets within the facility.
Enterprise Asset Management Professional ServicesE-ISG offers a full range of professional consultative services
to assist enterprises in the successful deployment of their asset
management system. Learn
more... Standard and Secure InstallationVisual Asset Manager can be installed on a standard Microsoft IIS 5.0 or 6.0 web server with Microsoft SQL Server® database. Visual Asset Manager has a full security model, allowing administrators to enable or restrict users from performing specific functions. Permissions are assigned by user, and include add/edit/delete assets, floors and reports, allow data collection and barcode scanning, etc. In addition, administrators can define which asset categories are visible to each user. And web access can be managed by username/password or Integrated Windows Authentication Visual Asset Manager is a trademark of Net Simplicty Inc. |
The location of each asset within your company can be displayed
on company floor plans (uploaded in JPG format). Assets can be associated
with rooms and employees. Employees can be imported directly from
your Outlook global address list. Instantly display the location
of any asset by selecting the asset and clicking 'Locate.' 
Track your organization's assets, including workstations, servers,
printers, telephones, software, and more. Any number of tabs and
fields can be added and positioned on the Asset Detail form. Types
of fields that can be added are: text, checkbox, number, memo, picture,
and date. Properties can be set for each field such as 'default value,'
'calculation,' 'value list,' 'price,' etc. 
Visual Asset Manager's powerful search capabilities
allow you to instantly list and link to assets by category, manufacturer,
model. maintenance or warranty expiration, and many other fields.
Scan and print barcodes to better track your assets. Visual Asset
Manager supports the most popular bar code standards, which means
that almost any barcode can be easily scanned or printed. Barcode
labels can be quickly printed for hardware items that do not already
have a valid barcode. 
Visual Asset Manager can track maintenance coverage, equipment leases,
warranties and repairs that have been made for each item in your
asset inventory. It can also calculate straight-line depreciation
based on a given purchase price, purchase date and depreciation period,
and provide a means for tracking Fair Market Value, as well.
Generate over 25 customizable reports covering
inventory, maintenance, ownership, location and checkout status,
and more.
Asset managers can check out and in shared
use assets like projectors, laptops, carts, easels. Each VAM user
can view the availability of each asset or asset pool, find available
assets within a given pool, check out an asset to a given user for
a given time period and check it back in again, and track and report
shared asset status. 
A recommended option if you require the ability to customize the
detail and search forms. The reservation form can be customized to
contain any number of fields and tabs. Field properties such as 'Default
Value', 'Value List', 'Outlook Import', 'PC Audit', etc. can also
be assigned using the Visual Asset Manager Architect. 