Inventory Software?

[Thetech]

The small company I work for currently has a messy inventory system,
everything (electronic, equipment etc) is all kept inventoried in an Excel
spreadsheet. Sounds fine but I don't know how to work excel that well.
And I was wondering if there were any easy to use inventory software that I
could use to keep better track of everything?

Currently when something is checked out or back in I have to write it down in
a book and manually update it in the excel inventory.

Any suggestion are appreciated!

 

[growled]

I'm not sure what your needs are, but the small company I work for couldn't find any inventory software that quite suited us, so we made our own with Access. It's moderately easy to do.

 

[dphantom]

Spiceworks might be a good fit. I am testing it out. I have used Altiris and Track It! in the past. Altiris can be very pricey.

MS also has some inventory management access db templates available for download that might also work with modification.

 

[Thetech]

Sorry, my needs are.

I have to inventory Laptop and Desktop Computers, printers, radios, projectors.
And I have to track it all, some of it is at other sites, and some of it gets signed out and turned in on a regular basis.
We usually have inventory twice a year and I have to be able to know who has what, and what's where
so I can show them and they can make sure it's all kept up with. I don't know what else I can think of that might help.

 

[dphantom]

Originally posted by: Thetech
Sorry, my needs are.

I have to inventory Laptop and Desktop Computers, printers, radios, projectors.
And I have to track it all, some of it is at other sites, and some of it gets signed out and turned in on a regular basis.
We usually have inventory twice a year and I have to be able to know who has what, and what's where
so I can show them and they can make sure it's all kept up with. I don't know what else I can think of that might help.

In that case, perhaps an Access db using one of the MS provided templates would work best. The ones I mentioned really are not good for tracking non-network devices.

 

[Phynaz]

IBM Maximo & HP AssetManager are the top two in the field of IT Asset Managment.

CA also has a product which the name escapes me.

Basically all the large software vendors have a product.

BTW, these are all asset lifecycle applications, you will not be able to duplicate their functionality in Access or excel.