Patent ID: 7660731

Claim:
An enterprise information handling system, comprising: a plurality of hardware and software assets hosted on one or more servers connected to a network; a plurality of client-side network access devices connected on the network to the one or more servers to use the hardware and software assets; a resource center connected on the network to the one or more servers, the plurality of hardware and software assets, and the plurality of client-side network access devices, the resource center controlling the plurality of client-side network access devices' use of the hardware and software assets according to one or more agreements, the resource center comprising: a processing device connected to at least one memory; a database stored in at least one memory, the database comprising data of the plurality of client-side network access devices, the hardware assets, the software assets, the agreements, metrics of the actual use, a demand of the one or more of the plurality of client-side network access devices to use the hardware and software assets; and an application center operationally connected to the processing device, the memory, and the database, the application center having a plurality of management modules executable in the processing device of the resource center that read from and write to the database and control data transfer, user administration, accounts, assets, agreements, products, tasks of the use of the hardware and software assets by the one or more of the plurality of client-side network access devices; and wherein the resource center further monitors actual use of the hardware and software assets by one or more of the plurality of client-side network access devices and determines if the actual use is in violation of one or more agreements, and automatically generates billing adjustments based on violation of one or more agreement; and an agreement management module of the application center and executable in the processing device determines if any of the agreements have expired or will expire in a sweep date range.