Every digital business runs on IT assets – foundational for protecting revenue and business resilience. The business needs to know what assets are owned, where they are located, who is using them, how often they are used, when they are being configured, what they cost, and the value they deliver. When day-to-day business operations shift, IT asset management (ITAM) is foundational to making the pivot possible.
As the workplace continuously evolves, an asset estate poses significant challenges from an operational, cost, and risk perspective. Asset managers may be working with multiple tools or stockrooms in different locations. When assets are managed separately, asset data is scattered, and asset teams are working in data siloes.
Hardware Asset Management (HAM) provides end to end visibility of your IT hardware assets and automates the IT lifecycle on a single platform, which can help Organisations:
Achieve greater visibility through trusted data
Get a big picture view and prove where assets are in each lifecycle stage and the intelligence needed for planning, strategy, and business agility
Improve the quality of asset data through automation
Align financial and service management practices to create organizational habits that build and maintain data accuracy
Reduce costs and risks
By leveraging the Platform, you can get to Software Asset Management outcomes faster. Organisations can think of the Platform CMDB as a centralized hub for hardware and software data. The CMDB drives the IT asset lifecycle, with intuitive workflow available at each step of the way. This allows you to operationalize enriched software data to areas like IT Change, Security Operations, Application Portfolio Management, and HR asset onboarding
Running Software Asset Management on the same platform is a game changer for future use cases, as you'll be able to alert the issues, processes, and events before you get out of compliance. You can mitigate expensive true up costs and wasted spend.
Software Asset Management – This application provides the capability to track and manage software assets, including normalization of discovered software, reconciliation of discovered software against license entitlements, and remediation actions to stay compliant.
Software Spend Detection – This application helps software asset managers identify and track software spend using financial transaction data to uncover the true picture of SaaS and software purchases made across the business.
Client Software Distribution – This application allows administrators to manage software revocation. Integration with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) is provided and the extension framework enables additional third-party integrations, providing a single pane of glass for software revocations on Windows and Apple devices.
Performance Analytics for Software Asset Management – Platform Performance Analytics Software provides powerful analytic functions for software asset management. With Performance Analytics, Organisations can review historical compliance trends and their associated costs. Publisher-specific dashboards enable the review of compliance and optimization positions at a glance.
