What is AssetTrove?
A short tour of what AssetTrove does, who it's for and how the main parts fit together.
AssetTrove is IT asset management (ITAM) software. It keeps one reliable record of the devices your organisation owns, the software installed on them, the licences you've bought, and who has what. It then uses that record to answer the questions that cost money when nobody can answer them:
- Are we paying for licences nobody uses? AssetTrove finds them and helps you take them back politely.
- Do we have enough licences if a vendor audits us? AssetTrove compares what you've bought with what's installed and used, and shows any shortfall in euros.
- Where is every laptop, who has it, and what is it worth today? AssetTrove tracks each device from purchase order to wipe certificate, including depreciation.
- Can we prove it? Every change is recorded in a tamper-evident audit log, and you can see your licence position as it was on any past date.
Who it's for
AssetTrove is built for IT teams and managed service providers who look after anywhere from a few hundred to tens of thousands of devices. Different people use it in different ways:
| Person | What they use AssetTrove for |
|---|---|
| IT or asset manager | Hardware inventory, assigning and collecting devices, resolving discovery conflicts |
| Licence or software asset manager | Contracts, entitlements, licence position, reclaiming unused licences |
| Finance | Asset values, depreciation and closing periods |
| Auditor or compliance lead | Read-only access to everything, compliance checks and audit log exports |
| Employees | See the devices and licences assigned to them, and answer "do you still need this licence?" emails |
How the parts fit together
- People come from your identity provider (Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace) or are invited by hand. See Inviting people.
- Devices and installed software come in through discovery: connectors such as Microsoft Intune, agents using the API, or a spreadsheet import. AssetTrove matches each device to one asset, however many tools report it.
- Licences are recorded as contracts and entitlements, and handed out as allocations to people or devices.
- Reconciliation compares what you own with what's used and produces your licence position, with findings such as leavers still holding licences.
- Reclamation finds licences nobody is using, asks the person first, and frees the seat. See How licence reclamation works.
- Compliance checks turn all of this into evidence for ISO 27001, CIS Controls, SOC 2 and NIST CSF. See Compliance frameworks and checks.
Where your data lives
AssetTrove stores your data in the EU (Paris, France). Each organisation's data is kept separate by the database itself, and every change is recorded in an audit log that can't be quietly edited. Read more in How AssetTrove protects your data.