IT Asset Management

In business IT Asset Management becomes increasingly important as it combines the financial, contractual and inventory functions to support life cycle management and strategic decision making for the IT environment.

This means that a lack of overview could result in unnecessary expenditures since a timely administration of warranties and depreciations enhances the company´s opportunities in controlling the economy. Several variables, such as the number of employees or devices will determine just how much the company can save.

Gartner: “Effective asset management is one of the best means of achieving short-term cost savings: it can yield cost savings of up to 30 percent per asset within the first year.”

LicenseWatch IT Asset Management offers a complete overview of the company´s IT assets securing accountability for the life-cycle management of IT assets throughout the organization.
Through development and maintenance of policies, standards, processes, systems and measurements the solution also enables the organization to manage the IT Asset portfolio with respect to risk, cost, control, IT Governance, compliance and business performance objectives as established by the business.

Any data from anywhereThrough connectors for Vmware ESX/ESXI, Citrix Presentation Server/XenApp , Altiris Deployement Solution and Microsoft SCCM 2007, LicenseWatch IT Asset Management securs that all physical assets as well as software is registrered in the inventory regardless of location, physical or virtual.

All IT assets handed out by the company are automatically registrered and when an employee stops, the company always has a realtime inventory of all IT assets.

With LicenseWatch IT Asset Management the company uncovers savings through process improvement and support for strategic decision making, gains control of the inventory, increases accountability to ensure compliance, enhances performance of assets and the life cycle management and reduces risk through standardization, proper documentation and loss detection.

Gartner: “Enterprises that reconcile assets can identify redundant or rarely used products. One enterprise saved $100,000 by dropping a product for which it was paying maintenance fees but no longer used.”

IT Asset management benefits

  • Automatic discovery of all IT assets.
  • Integration with leading thirdparty providers (VMware ESX/ESXI, Citrix Presentation Server/XenApp, Altiris Deployement Solution, Microsoft SCCM 2007).
  • Advanced billing against cost center.
  • Reconcile IT assets against contracts.
  • 100s of precanned reports.

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