Key Benefits of Unified IT Asset Management

IT Asset Management provides improvement in the following areas:

1. Reduces Total cost of ownership, industry analysts estimate that potential savings from implementing an enterprise wide asset management system can range from $200 to $700 per desktop per year. Gartner Group research indicates that proper asset management can result in a 30% saving in overall operational costs.

2. Implement a continuous improvement process organization wide through best practice IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) services to help you develop a step-by-step road map to effective technology management and report in real time on IT assets.

3. Operations - managers can prevent access to inappropriate sites, unauthorised software, and limit the propagation of inaccurate information.

4. Purchasing - with information on software licenses and the true cost ofsoftware upgrades, decision makers can better budget, plan, and managesoftware purchases, leading to an improved return on investment

5. Help Desk - with access to users’ hardware and software configuration changes, as well as network infrastructure information, support staff can resolve technical problems faster, removing any technological obstacles toend-user productivity.

6. Security - with information on suspicious asset activities, such as missing CD-ROMs, computer hard drives, and memory, the security staff can take the appropriate action to protect the organization and its resources.

7. Finance

• Implementing of a perpetual auto-discovery program that provides accurate, real time information
• Prevent the embarrassing variances between the fixed-asset accounting system and installed assets, and produce more accurate financial reports using a single database.

8. Information Technology - with accurate technology trend information, IT decision makers can improve the planning and budgeting of departmentaland corporate IT asset changes. Additionally, they can actively audit the enterprise for violations of predefined standards.

9. Auto Discovery allows tracking desktop moves, adds, and changes so you’re prepared for your next IT audit. It also removes the need for Costly Physical Audits by implementing a perpetual auto-discovery program that provides accurate, real time information.

10. Software Compliance

• Accessing and tracking all of your license agreements so you don’t have to rely on erroneous vendor records;
• Monitoring your enterprise software usage on an ongoing basis to ensure license compliance;
• Eliminating the costly tendency to “overlicense” as a precaution against violations

11. Due to many corporate failures Risk Management has become a necessity in Corporate compliance. Sarbannes-Oxley legislation specific addresses the need for better control of assets and accounting systems to identify and mitigate risks assets and information residing on pose to organizations.

12. Manage financial and contractual asset details, at the heart of infrastructure planning, strategic business decisions, asset procurement, end-user support, and asset disposal. For example, Enterprise Insight manages detailed information, including Software license agreements, Warranty and maintenance contracts, Leasing terms and conditions, Volume purchasing agreements, Asset catalogs, including detailed configuration, cost, and vendor information for preapproved assets and Service level agreements.

13. Reduce asset procurement expenses and minimise turnaround times.