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MANAGING REPORTS
You can learn more about managing Configuration Manager reports at
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EXAM TIP
Remember what steps you need to take to clone and import a report.
Asset Intelligence enhances the inventory capabilities of Configuration Manager by extend-
ing hardware inventory and adding functionality for license reporting. By enabling additional
hardware-inventory WMI reporting classes, Asset Intelligence helps improve the range of
information that it gathers about software titles in use.
Asset Intelligence offers the following benefits over software inventory:
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Enables more accurate representation of software titles that are present on managed
computers
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Provides information about the license usage for specific products rather than just
information about the software itself
Can be used in conjunction with software metering to rationalize licensing by deter-
mining instances when software has deployed but is not being used
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Retrieves information about installed software through the hardware inventory client
agent after the software inventory agent detects software titles by scanning client
storage
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