IT Asset Management

Knowing which IT assets you have and how they are used has become a challenge in today's complex and ever evolving IT infrastructure. A typical IT infrastructure has many different assets of various types, and new assets are being deployed daily to support the evolving business needs. Tracking and easily accounting for all IT assets on the network has become a burden for many IT managers.

But tracking IT Assets is not enough. Once you gain control over your IT inventory, the next step is to correlate them against the related financial assets, such as contracts, software licenses or service agreements, to understand how they relate to the business and take any actions required. IT Asset Management can help you easily track your assets and understand how they impact your business.

The Challenge

1. Knowing which assets you have, where they are, and their configuration.
2. Easily auditing your entire infrastructure, and accounting for all your IT assets.
3. Tracking changes to your assets, such as new computers or software installations.
   
4. Planning IT migrations and new IT projects.
5. Correlating IT assets against business financial records such as contracts and licenses.

IT Asset Management benefits

IT Asset Management can help reduce the cost of administrating your IT assets, improve security and ensure you are always ready for your next IT audit.

1. Reduce IT costs by better managing and administrating your IT assets.
2. Ensure software compliance by knowing what you have and what you use.
3. Align IT with business goals to support business decisions such as purchasing or renewals.
4. Improve productivity by empowering the IT administration team to easily track and manage assets and their changes.
5. Detect unauthorized and illegal software by adopting a software usage policy and easily detecting any policy deviations.

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