A centralized inventory solution must have the ability to generate reports. Statistics are also useful in certain situations, if we need to bring up some points and back up our assumptions. Statistics are largely focused on helpdesk and issue tracking.
The report generation can be found under the Tools | Reports menu.
Statistics can be displayed from Assistance | Statistics.
We have a few predefined default report styles. For example, we can create reports for financial information, history of hardware information, or installed software. Depending on the amount of parameters we fill into our inventory, the parameters based on which we can create reports is also higher.
Unless asked for specific kinds of reports, we frequently use the following ones: reports based on duplicate computers, detailed license reports, and by license expiration dates. The financial reports, including contracts, location trees, and so on might be asked by higher management...