Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling their access to resources within that system by associating user rights and restrictions with the established identity. Versiera provides real-time Profile Services for updating and tracking user application and operational settings that is used within an Identity Management system. Versiera obtains its information from Helix agents that reside on the workstations and server systems. The Helix agents are responsible for refreshing the information for Versiera Profile Services every 24 hours. Versiera consolidates financial, contractual, and change history data in a central repository to provide visibility into the IT asset information. Versiera helps IT organizations control expenses by ensuring contract and license compliance, avoid leasing, software and tax violations, fully utilize warranty and maintenance terms and maximize return on disposed assets. The information that can be collected using Versiera include: User IDs Application Settings System settings Software usage Printer Settings Drive mappings Local server Home server The information gathered by Versiera can be used in a number of different ways. Reduce the number of 3rd party software licenses required Rebuild desktops to the exact configurations the user had before Restrict access based upon the employee's role Single Sign On Printer Usage Enable Roaming users