Founded in 1998, Pointware Informática started its software developer activities (electronic point systems and access control). In 2000, the company developed Easy Inventory, aiming to meet a need for most companies, which is to control your IT assets. In 2015 they launched the new version of Easy Inventory, to attend to all companies sizes in the market, they became fully in Cloud and with a large differential that is to show the geolocation of all equipment, such as desktops and, mainly, notebooks, something unusual in Brazil and the world.
The service was gaining more and more resources and today is one of the most complete solutions on the market, with sophisticated IT asset management and no longer just the “HW and SW inventory”. In the concept of the company, “inventory is a photo and management of IT assets is a movie”, this analogy represents the evolution of the system.
Another characteristic that differs from the other solutions on the market is the ease of use and training that does not take more than two hours.
Usually, the solutions practiced, in addition to having high values, require qualified and often certified professionals, which makes the costs of the complete solution unfeasible for many companies. This explains the use of good and old excel to do the “control” of IT assets, which represents a “black and white bad photo”. Thinking about this difficulty, Pointware practices a value that fits on the budget of all companies and the service interface is very intuitive, in a short time any minimum knowledge user can use the service. In addition to rapid training, the solution has Help Online and more than 20 short explanatory videos, which further facilitates its use.
In addition to control of software licenses, performance analysis, and contracts management, the solution also has an automatic alerts feature, are more than 20 available. If an “HW OUSW” change occurs, low disk space, irregular software, contracts, and guarantees near the maturity, an alert will be registered and sent by email to the asset manager.
Easy Inventory has a global scope, it works wherever the Internet reaches, does not depend on a local network. If a company has equipment scattered around the world, the only required prerequisites are: to have Internet access and a browser to access the service.
Geolocation allows you to define perimeters where the equipment should be used. Improper use triggers an alarm for the manager, called an electronic fence. This solves many mysteries of equipment that changes from location, city, and country without apparent information.
Through Google Maps all equipment will have its physical location shown, with all Google resources (map, relief, zoom). For smartphones and tablets, traceability is detailed, shows the routes (streets, avenues, and km traveled), in addition to the stop times. It is an ideal control for the current home office times, in which geolocation makes a difference. The service is also key to helping in LGPD control as it provides a lot of information to ensure compliance and environmental safety.
GROWTH AND EXPANSION
Even with the pandemic, Easy Inventory has grown 100% per year through partnerships and direct sales. Currently, the company has more than 155 customers and more than 100,000 installed agents.
Easy Inventory’s successful sales motivated Pointware to start, in this second semester, its activities in the United States, where the service will have a name very similar to Brazil, will be EZ Geo Inventory. The next step will be expanding to Europe.
Pointware has as a mission “to democratize” IT asset management for all corporate sizes since to have efficient control of IT assets it is not necessary to pay expensively for a solution and do not have to hire professionals with high wages, which is one of the reasons that most companies can not have control of their valuable patrimony.
