Need a way to inventory Mac programs and corresponding serial numbers

My boss is a Windows guy & doesn't know what he's doing. Therefore, he insists there's a way out there to inventory all of our office's Macs & generate a list of programs and corresponding serial #s. Is this possible? How?
In his perfect Microsoft world, this would create an Excel sheet.

If you've purchased and configured Apple Remote Desktop, then use the Application Usage Report feature -- gives a list of apps and how frequently they are used (in case you want to reigh in licenses).
A cheap alternative, of course, is to create an admin account on each machine and use 'ssh' to run system_profiler on each machine. e.g. 'system_profiler -detailLevel full SPApplicationsDataType'. You get responses like this (you can request an XML format too):
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      Version: 14.1.2
      Last Modified: 6/15/11 10:05 AM
      Kind: Intel
      64-Bit (Intel): No
      Get Info String: 14.1.2 (110505), © 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
      Location: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Word.app
    TextEdit:
      Version: 1.6
      Last Modified: 6/29/09 9:00 PM
      Kind: Intel
      64-Bit (Intel): Yes
      Location: /Applications/TextEdit.app
    Network Utility:
      Version: 1.4.6
      Last Modified: 6/25/09 5:20 PM
      Kind: Intel
      64-Bit (Intel): Yes
      Get Info String: Version 1.4.6, Copyright © 2000-2009 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
      Location: /Applications/Utilities/Network Utility.app
    Google Chrome:
      Version: 12.0.742.122
      Last Modified: 7/8/11 8:30 PM
      Kind: Intel
      64-Bit (Intel): No
      Location: /Applications/Google Chrome.app
... just a PERL script away from being a spreadsheet.

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