French firm Staff&Line is aiming to be the leading IT management vendor in Europe following its acquisition of SAM UK, which becomes the company's UK arm. The firm said it can offer a complete asset management stack that supports six European languages and is less costly than rival suites from HP, IBM and CA#.

Staff&Line's EasyVista suite is already available, with a major update due in January, according to the firm. With the SAM UK acquisition complete, the firm aims to expand market share in the UK by promoting its suite to mid-size organisations with hundreds or thousands of desktops, many of which lack good asset management.
"Larger enterprises are already equipped, but most mid-market companies are not, or else they may have some pieces that make up a partial solution," said Staff &Line UK managing director David Silsby.

EasyVista is an Itil-compliant modular suite supporting hardware and software asset discovery, auditing and lifecycle management, plus service desk and change management. It covers all these functions in one product, while businesses would need to buy five or more suites from rivals to do the same, according to Staff &Line.

The suite supports six European languages, making it more attractive for pan-European companies where helpdesk requests from one site may be serviced from a site in another country, according to Silsby.

EasyVista is licensed based on the number of hardware assets managed and also the number of services deployed. A typical deployment might start at €20,000 (£13,000), plus implementation costs and a 15 percent annual maintenance fee.