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- IBM Maximo IT asset management solutions in the financial services industry
- Financial services companies face an array of demanding and ongoing challenges, including global competition, mergers, acquisitions, converging service offerings, and an imperative to build and maintain customer loyalty. At the same time, a growing array of compliance mandates, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II, require financial services companies to...
- Tags: Asset Management, Financial, Financial Service, IBM Corp., Information Technology, IT Asset Management, Management, Risk, Strategy
- White papers 2009-01-28
- SAManage Revolutionizes IT Asset Management: On-Demand Solution Easy to Implement, Easy to Use, and Free
- Using the free of charge SAManage IT Asset Management solution, IT departments are empowered with complete visibility into the entire IT environment, so they can more effectively manage their assets and ensure that assets are fully utilized. Delivered on-demand over the Internet, the SAManage solution provides a real-time view of...
- Tags: Asset, IT Asset Management, Information Technology, On-demand, SAManage, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-10-15
- Simplify IT Asset Management With eSMART
- eSMART by Dell is the on-demand asset management solution that helps simplify IT asset management so one can better manage the IT costs and mitigate the compliance risk. eSMART delivers the easy-to-use, wizard-driven inventory, usage, and compliance reports one need to help manage the software and hardware assets efficiently and...
- Tags: Asset, Dell Computer Corp., IT Asset Management, Information Technology, eSMART, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Webcasts 2008-10-01
- Making the Business Case for IT Asset Management
- IT Asset Management ITAM is an important business discipline that provides insight into a company's information infrastructure and enhances the ability to control the performance of IT assets. With ITAM, organizations leverage a combination of processes and technologies to gain a greater understanding of what assets exist, where these assets...
- Tags: Asset, Business Case, IT Asset Management, Information Technology, SAManage, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2008-08-30
- Property and Construction Firm Achieves High Savings Using IT Asset Management
- ISG Asia is a property and construction services provider with 11 offices in Asia and the Middle East. As it had no integrated IT inventory tracking, it opted to partner with TecBiz to implement a Software Asset Management SAM solution for its Singapore office. This allows it to consolidate its...
- Tags: IT Asset Management, Information Technology, ISG Asia, Construction, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-29
- IT Asset Management: A Cornerstone for Accelerating ITIL Success
- ITAM is crucial to the service life cycle that is now described as part of ITIL Version 3 Service Asset and Configuration Management. When an IT organization knows what infrastructure they have and where it resides, they can provide service continuity and service availability and can properly manage the costs...
- Tags: Asset, IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., ITAM, Asset Management, ITIL, Operational Planning, Business Operations, It Services
- White papers 2007-11-29
- Advanced IT Asset Management
- Specops Inventory gives the IT Manager, System Administrator and the Software License Manager a new powerful way of managing all Active Directory based IT assets. The solution is designed to fill gap in the marketplace for this functionality. Specops Inventory provides complete inventory management functions from a computer perspective and...
- Tags: IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Inventory Management, Special Operations Software, Specops Inventory, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-06-19
- Setting and Enforcing Desktop Standards Using IT Asset Management Tools
- As technology infrastructure becomes increasingly complex and distributed, IT departments have more and more difficulty keeping track of how many desktops they have, much less what software is installed and running on those desktops. The chaos that governs the desktop environment drives up support costs, compromises user productivity, and can...
- Tags: IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Standards, Express Metrix, Desktops, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2006-06-14
- Asset Portfolio Management - Solving the Compliance Puzzle: Governance, Process Enablement and IT Asset Management
- As organizations move deeper into this new age of regulatory compliance, governance is emerging as an effective, long-term approach - addressing compliance issues by balancing process improvement with risk mitigation. Because IT assets are the common denominator in virtually every business process, implementing an effective IT asset management solution is...
- Tags: Asset, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Compliance, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Understanding Inventory, Configuration and IT Asset Management
- It's common knowledge that enterprise IT organizations face a deluge of efficiency, cost constraint and compliance issues every day. Sometimes it seems like dealing with these issues takes precedence over what IT is responsible for in the first place-delivering business services that directly support and empower the variety of automated...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Moving IT Asset Management From Chaos to Value: Five Stage Process for Evolving IT Asset Management
- Caught between cost and compliance, service levels and outsourcers, IT organizations must take a step back and fully evaluate their asset and service management practices - and make a deliberate effort to evolve those practices to deliver a predictable and valued level of service. The IT Evolution Model helps companies...
- Tags: Asset, Service Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Momentum Webcast: Software and IT Asset Management Basics: Opportunities for Large and Small Businesses (Level 100)
- Large and small businesses can reduce costs and improve service delivery by improving Information Technology IT asset management processes for hardware and software. Best practices in IT asset management begin with taking a life-cycle approach to optimizing both investments and service yield. This webcast offers a framework for implementing effective...
- Tags: Software, Webcast, IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Small Business, Strategy, Management
- Webcasts 2006-02-28
- Webcast: The Evolving Role of IT Asset Management in a Process-Driven World
- The emergence of ITIL and the Configuration Management Database CMDB has left a myriad of questions around the role of asset management programs in IT organizations. As historical components of IT Asset Management ITAM programs (e.g., help desk) get absorbed into IT Service Management, ITAM programs are looking to understand...
- Tags: Asset, BMC Software Inc., Webcast, IT Asset Management, Information Technology, CMDB, ITAM, Asset Management, ITIL, Service Level Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, It Services, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Webcasts 2006-02-07
- Asset Management: Finding Success Where Others Have Failed - Avoid the Pitfalls of a Failed IT Asset Management Project
- The key questions that must be asked when commencing or re-commencing an IT asset management initiative are "Why did this fail before?" and "Which direction do one wants to go?" There are many forks in the road on the path to success of an IT asset management initiative. Through proper...
- Tags: Asset, IT Asset Management, Information Technology, ITIL, Asset Management, Strategy, It Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2005-11-01
- IT Asset Management, ITIL, and the CMDB: Paving the Way for Business Service Management
- Many enterprises are developing business service management BSM strategies in an effort to better align their IT services with their overall business goals. This Forrester Research report outlines the benefits of BSM and explains why companies must invest in three essential building blocks before they can realistically expect to see...
- Tags: IT Asset Management, Information Technology, CMDB, Business Service, Business Service Management, ITIL
- White papers 2005-10-24
- Solving the Compliance Puzzle: Governance, Process Enablement, and IT Asset Management
- IT asset management is quite simply the foundational IT practice upon which process enablement, compliance, and governance strategies are built, because IT assets touch every major process and transaction throughout the enterprise. Traditionally IT asset management has been defined as the practice of tracking and controlling the ownership, location, deployment,...
- Tags: IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Compliance, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Effective IT Asset Management from HP
- HP offers smart ITAM programs that help IT improve sourcing decisions. Discover how HP positions your IT organization to be an effective business enabler rather than an unproductive cost center.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2005-02-14
- Leveraging HP IT Service Management to Enable IT Asset Management
- This paper discusses the ability of IT organizations to leverage their investment in IT Service Management ITSM to enable enterprise IT Asset Management ITAM. This paper reviews in detail IT Asset Management and the supporting processes associated with the HP ITSM Reference Model. It also discusses the supporting technology characteristics...
- Tags: Service Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Service Level Management, It Services, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-11-11
- The Value of Integrating IT Asset Management With ERP Applications
- While the management of IT assets has traditionally been viewed as an IT operational discipline, its functions are increasingly important to corporate financial management. Best practices in IT asset management have always pointed to managing the lifecycle of an asset: tracking and managing costs, location, ownership, value, and retirement. The...
- Tags: Asset, IT Asset Management, Information Technology, ERP, Peregrine Systems Inc., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Asset Management, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2004-10-01
- IT Asset Management: Saving Money, Reducing Risk
- A majority of organizations do not have efficient ways of keeping track of their IT assets. That opens them up to dangers like system downtime from improperly implemented upgrades, potential licensing violations, poor customer service, overpaying on license fees and improper usage of software and the Internet by employees. ...
- Tags: NetSupport Ltd., IT Asset Management, Information Technology, Strategy, Asset Management, Internet, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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