Managing the total cost of ownership (TCO) while ensuring your organization's software and hardware are properly inventoried, updated and serviced. Maintaining a good balance of resources and control between centrally managed and network-distributed systems. Deciding how many of your information systems and how much of your systems management to outsource, if any. Ensuring the security of all your information, including everything transmitted via mobile devices. Choosing among proprietary, compatible, and open source software options to find the right balance of resource and control between centrally-managed and network-distributed systems.
These are just a few of the issues and challenges facing the CIOs and senior IT executives charged with IT management responsibilities. The proliferation of choices doesn't make the task any easier.
When developing any management process that works, there are certain principles and best practices that make up an effective ITAM strategy...