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Vendor Landscape Plus: Automated IT Asset Management Solutions
You can manage IT assets the hard way or the easy way. The right ITAM solution will help you find the easy way.
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Your Challenge
- A solid asset management practice is essential to understanding and managing costs associated with IT assets.
- Having a spreadsheet or database in place to provide a basic inventory of assets often isn’t enough to actually manage the data or the assets.
- Choosing the wrong IT Asset Management (ITAM) package can create as much difficulty as not having a tool at all. This often results in poorly deployed and under-utilized tools.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- ITAM is more than just creating an inventory, and therefore most organizations will benefit from an automated tool to help them reach an advanced level of ITAM.
- Instant access to detailed statistical, usage, and financial data provides a depth and quality of information not available through manual inventory methods.
- Integration of automated tools with the IT service management system will produce efficiencies of 15-20% and provide greater knowledge into the actual costs of your organization’s assets.
In order to select the best solution for your organization’s needs, you must:
- Evaluate your organization’s environment and critical functionality.
- Determine the levels of required integration of the ITAM tool with service desk and business applications.
- Consider workflows and reports to automate repeatable tasks and get fast access to analytical data.
Get to Action
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Choose an ITAM solution.
Optimize your ITAM practice.
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Learn about the paybacks of ITAM automation.
Understand the benefits of automating your ITAM practice.
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Assess organizational needs and shortlist vendors.
Narrow your focus to the most appropriate vendors.
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Issue an RFP to collect data for assessment of shortlisted vendors.
Provide ITAM tool parameters to vendors.
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Analyze responses.
Find the best fit.
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Issue a script for vendors.
Maintain control of the demonstration.
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Other Solution Sets in Hardware & Software Asset Management
1. Cut Through Microsoft Licensing Complexity to Negotiate a Better Deal
Price is not the only way to save money on Microsoft licensing. Optimize your MS licensing agreement, and fit the agreement to the enterprise.
Price is not the only way to save money on Microsoft licensing. Optimize your MS licensing agreement, and fit the agreement to the enterprise.
2. Manage Software Assets Efficiently
If asset management was fun, everyone would be doing it. Just do it.
If asset management was fun, everyone would be doing it. Just do it.
3. Develop a Comprehensive Hardware Asset Management Strategy
Implement HAM to improve on Green IT and SAM.
Implement HAM to improve on Green IT and SAM.
4. Vendor Landscape Plus: Automated IT Asset Management Solutions
You can manage IT assets the hard way or the easy way. The right ITAM solution will help you find the easy way.
You can manage IT assets the hard way or the easy way. The right ITAM solution will help you find the easy way.
5. Automate the IT Asset Management Solution
Automated tools mean you won’t have to manage your Assets off!
Automated tools mean you won’t have to manage your Assets off!
