Asset Management
Do you know?
- What assets you have,
- Where they are,
- Who is using them,
- How they are utilized and,
- What it costs to effectively maintain and support any given asset.
Life cycle of capital assets
Asset Management is understood to mean the management of the complete life cycle of capital assets, which serve as the support for the business processes within a company. An example is IT, such as PCs, printers, software licences etc. Obviously, Asset Management can also refer to lease agreements, mortgages, buildings, vehicles, knowledge etc. Management of assets also includes Infrastructure Resource Planning.
Successful Asset Management solutions are a set of processes that are accomplished:
Discovery - Defining and cataloging all of the assets and sub-assets that make up your IT Infrastructure, starting with the backbone of the network.
Inventory - Detailed asset information and configuration data with well established links between assets and sub-assets, people and locations producing a trusted data source. This includes Hardware, Software and Security information about your assets.
Operations - Tracking and managing individual assets through their lifecycle (Acquisition, Implementation, Production, Maintenance, and Disposal) in the most productive and cost efficient manner.
