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Pocket CIO – The Guide to Successful IT Asset Management

By : Phara McLachlan
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Pocket CIO – The Guide to Successful IT Asset Management

By: Phara McLachlan

Overview of this book

This book is a detailed IT Asset Management (ITAM) guidebook with real-world templates that can be converted into working ITAM documents. It is a step-by-step IT Asset Management manual for the newbies as well as the seasoned ITAM veterans, providing a unique insight into asset management. It discusses how risk management has changed over time and the possible solutions needed to address the new normal. This book is your perfect guide to create holistic IT Asset Management and Software Asset Management programs that close the risk gaps, increases productivity and results in cost efficiencies. It allows the IT Asset Managers, Software Asset Managers, and/or the full ITAM program team to take a deep dive by using the templates offered in the guidebook. You will be aware of the specific roles and responsibilities for every aspect of IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, and Software License Compliance Audit Response. By the end of this book, you will be well aware of what IT and Software Asset Management is all about and the different steps, processes, and roles required to truly master it.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface

Chapter 6. ITAM Tools – What Should You Look For?

Few areas affect your enterprise to the extent that technology does. It affects your budget, your spending, your results, your capabilities, your people, your processes and—ultimately your success. The whole concept behind applying technologies to business intelligence and processes is to ensure that you work smarter, not harder, which in turn should lead to improved results.

The choice of technology is one of the more difficult aspects of Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM) and Software Asset Management (SAM). There are tools that can do ITAM well but not SAM. There are tools that do SAM well, but don't do overall ITAM well, because they are not robust enough to handle Hardware Asset Management (HAM). There are tools that state they can do it all.

Using today's technology, an intelligent asset (such as a laptop, mobile device, server, or VM) reports the manufacturer, make, model, and serial number. The position on the network is...