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It Audit and it Inventory Management – Knowing Which Assets You Have
Posted by admin in Financial Management on January 22nd, 2010
Knowing which IT assets you have and how they are used has become a challenge in today’s complex and ever evolving IT infrastructure. A typical IT infrastructure has many different assets of various types, and new IT projects are deploying additional assets to support the business objectives. These challenges includes tracking IT assets across multiple offices and IT platforms, detecting software installed and used, and discovering new devices that are on the network.
The Challenge
1. Knowing which IT assets you have, where they are, and their current configuration.
2. Audit changes to your assets, such as new computers or software installations across your network.
3. Planning IT migrations and new IT projects.
4. Correlating IT assets against business financial records such as contracts and licenses.
IT Audit – where is the business benefit?
An updated computer inventory can help reduce the cost of administrating your IT assets, improve security and ensure you are always ready for your next IT audit.
1. Reduce IT costs by better managing and administrating your IT assets.
2. Ensure software license compliance by knowing what you have and what you use.
3. Align IT with business goals to support business decisions such as license purchasing or renewals.
4. Improve productivity by empowering the IT administration team to easily track and manage assets and their changes.
5. Detect risks to your computers such as unauthorized and illegal software by adopting a software usage policy and easily detecting any policy deviations.
6. Audit Automation – every organization is facing an IT audit, whether its taking place every year or every month. An updated IT inventory can save you from manually tracking your assets and managing spreadsheets.
Taking it Inventory –network Inventory Management
Posted by admin in Financial Management on December 31st, 2009
Why Do I need to Inventory My Network?
Network inventory management is a must for efficient control of your computer and software asset inventory. An automated inventory is the only way to be truly up to date — IT systems change continuously during their lifecycle. Hardware components may be added or removed, software installed or uninstalled. Even in small IT networks, there will always be growth and change and managing IT inventory manually is practically impossible.
The goal of inventory management is to have a complete, up-to-date and accurate view of all network components, including PCs, servers, printers, hubs, routers, switches and software, etc. At a minimum, IT inventory management should tell you the device class and whatâs installed on the device. For any given time frame, inventory management provides the âactualâ state of all infrastructure components. This means that you know what you have and where it is located ? across the entire enterprise network.
How is IT Asset Management Related to My Network Inventory?
IT Asset Management (ITAM) is built upon your network inventory. IT Asset Management covers the lifecycle of the IT assets in your inventory, from the actual acquisition through deployment, upgrades, patches, etc. Â By deploying an IT Asset Management solution, you can do even more than manage your network and desktop inventory. You can manage the physical, contractual and even financial aspects of those computer assets. Implemented intelligently, IT inventory and ITAM will help your organization to reduce costs, improve service and reduce risk.
How Does SAManage help me with my Network Inventory?
Taking an inventory of your organizationâs network is an important process. For an organization of almost any size, network inventory should ideally be an automated collection of information from your network.
With SAManage deployed on your network, easily retrieve up to date information on what software titles and hardware components are installed across your network. With visibility into where they are used, and when they are used, you will have improved IT asset management capabilities. No software or servers are required, and using our service is simple.
SAManage is a comprehensive, scalable IT Asset Management solution.