Consolidate IT Asset Management

Without a centralized view into assets, including a single IT asset management (ITAM) tool, organizations can’t track assets and their movement across locations or where money is being spent to identify areas for cost savings.
Audits are conducted globally, but if asset management is done locally there is no way to provide the data and information needed to achieve compliance and get through the audit successfully and without penalties.
Multiple contracts and licenses in different locations lead to duplication of effort and wasted resources.

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Critical Insight

You can’t realize the full benefits of asset management through a decentralized model. Even with good asset management practices in place, without a centralized oversight into those processes, you will fail to realize the benefits of the effort put into managing equipment lifecycles.
Consolidating asset management doesn’t simply mean moving your data into one ITAM tool. There must be a focus on standardizing and consolidating processes at the same time or the data in the centralized tool will be meaningless.

Impact and Result

Moving to a single system of record and standardized processes will provide a clear view of hardware and software assets, contracts, and lifecycles across the organization to make more informed decisions.
Improved visibility can inform software and hardware rationalization and uncover opportunities for redeployment, leading to cost savings and reduced total cost of ownership.
A single ITAM tool or database ensures accurate and up-to-date inventory and improved capabilities for data integration.

Consolidate IT Asset Management Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should build a plan to consolidate IT asset management, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Consolidate IT Asset Management – Executive Brief

1. Assess current ITAM programs and data

Initiate the project by assembling a project team and identifying key stakeholders, and then conduct a comprehensive assessment of current ITAM practices and major assets in each location.

2. Plan consolidated ITAM

Evaluate needs and requirements, compare ITAM processes, policies, software, and hardware across locations, and then use this information to design the consolidated ITAM program.

3. Develop transition plan

Build a plan to achieve the consolidation and communicate to all stakeholders.

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Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Guided Implementation 1: Assess current ITAM programs and data

Call 1: Identify key stakeholders to engage, then assemble project team to complete the consolidation.
Call 2: Define drivers, objectives, and metrics for the project and develop a project charter to guide the consolidation.
Call 3: Conduct a comprehensive assessment of current ITAM processes and policies as well as major software and hardware assets in each location that will be involved in the consolidation.

Guided Implementation 2: Plan consolidated ITAM

Call 1: Evaluate needs of stakeholders in each location and build a requirements list for a new ITAM tool.
Call 2: Compare ITAM processes, policies, software, and hardware across locations.
Call 3: Design ITAM program: define and document ITAM processes and policies in an SOP, develop an ITAM tool shortlist and RFP, and define staffing roles and responsibilities.

Guided Implementation 3: Develop transition plan

Call 1: Build a plan to achieve the consolidation, including prioritized initiatives with assigned responsibility.
Call 2: Develop an RFP to hire a consultant to assist during and after the consolidation, if needed.
Call 3: Develop a plan for targeted and timely communications to all stakeholders involved in the consolidation.