As you might noticed, there's a hardware changes report. Software changes tracking will be available in one of the upcoming releases.

If I can add a couple of extra bits to this request.
- To be able to specify date ranges to allow running reports showing updates in the last month, or trimester or similar.
- To be able to include or exclude certain apps or categories or apps. This would be to distinguish OS patches from users installing their own apps.

Think of a meeting with a client where you discuss two issues
1) Users installing pirated or unauthorized software on their machines
2) Summary of work carried out patching machines over the last month

Some means to be able to export the report to Excel for manual filtering and reformatting.

Thanks for these ideas, I'm posting them internally for consideration now. As for patching the network machines, we will be adding patch management features to our software shortly.

By patch management do you mean the ability to apply patches or report on patches installed?

Either both would be good.

Being able to report on a time scale is a great help for management reporting to indicate activity over, say, the last three months.

Yes... actually both features are under development now. Generally speaking, NIA reports applied patches and hotfixes now, but that's not of much help, as reporting not applied/missing patches would be the real power, so that's what we are working on now: reporting of missing hotfixes and centralized initiation of their downloading and applying. The upcoming build will not have this feature available, but the next one will.

Great news, thanks.

I just installed the trial version 3.8 today. One of the things we really need to see is a report on what software has been installed over the last day, week or month on systems. It doesn't look like this is reporting software changes yet. Is this still being worked on?

It is. If everything goes well with the next dev phase, this report will be available in version 3.9

Any idea on a time frame? We use Belmanage right now and we will not be switching until we find something that does the same type of reporting, plus has the option to add assets manually.

Just checked the prices for Belmanage - uuuh! I'm talking to our devs on the software changes report now. I'll update you shortly. We are definitely targeting it. If you are interested in switching to Network Inventory Advisor, don't forget to email me to apply for competitive upgrade, which is 50% OFF btw.

OK. Sounds good.