Provance, a Microsoft integration and solutions partner, provides asset life cycle management extensions for SCSM.
The Provance IT Asset Management Pack provides extended functionality to manage the financial, contractual, and organizational information necessary to support additional IT Asset Management processes, including SAM, License Compliance, IT Asset Life Cycle Management, Contract Management, Vendor Management, and more cost-effective and efficient IT Service Management.
Asset information is maintained in the central System Center CMDB, where it is combined and shared in a single common repository with data from Active Directory®, Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager. Powerful reporting and analysis using IT asset management information is delivered through the System Center Data Warehouse.
The Provance Data Management Pack (DMP) simplifies, speeds, and automates the process of getting data into and out of the Service Manager CMDB, while simultaneously improving data consistency and accuracy. The DMP has an easy-to-use graphical interface, making it simple to automate data import from both files and databases, without coding or extensive knowledge of the CMDB structure. The DMP reduces the need for external manipulation and data cleansing, and also significantly improves the accuracy and consistency of the CIs in your System Center CMDB.
Provance Bar Code is a solution built specifically to work with the Provance IT Asset Management Pack and Service Manager without any additional customization or integration. Unlike manual inventory, Provance Bar Code dramatically reduces the manual effort and human error associated with gathering and entering asset data.