Organizations have thousands of IT assets in their inventory, from USB memory sticks to server racks. Accurately tracking and managing these IT assets helps with future budgeting, reduces IT expenditure and increases security through visibility of ‘who has what’. Barcodes are a simple way to efficiently manage your hardware assets, as they provide a quick … Continue reading Using Barcodes for Asset Inventory Management
The IT asset management industry is constantly evolving and can be difficult to keep up with. The concept as a whole is a lot to digest, and many organizations wonder whether ITAM is really a necessary business practice. Here, we have gathered some recent facts about the industry to provide a clear understanding of why you … Continue reading IT Asset Management: Uncover the Facts
All IT managers have experienced the many tasks streaming in once a new employee is hired. The on-boarding of assets for new employees is a difficult project, as it requires various assets and system accessing within a short period of time. Luckily, IT managers can now rely on Vizor to come to their rescue! The Vizor system can make life easier … Continue reading Automate User Provisioning with Vizor
What can you do to reduce the burden on IT, increase security and improve the efficiency of your processes? Oh right – we were also thinking Vizor. With Vizor’s advanced capabilities such as Who has What, combined with Business Process Management and Automation, you can implement some interesting stuff that will save you time. Here’s … Continue reading 5 Cool Things You Can Do With Vizor
Do you use an asset request portal as part of your firm’s IT management system? The idea of the portal is that employees can request the hardware and software they need themselves, through an easy-to-use portal that looks like a traditional app store. From here, the entire provisioning process of requested assets can be managed, … Continue reading 5 Reasons to Use an Asset Request Portal
BMC has moved Service Desk Express (previously known as Magic) to “Limited Support” and it will no longer be supported after December 31, 2017. Thankfully, Vizor from Vector is a great solution for SDE customers who are looking for an affordable, easy-to-use alternative to BMC SDE. Vector also provides a tailored Service Desk Express migration … Continue reading BMC Service Desk Express migration service
Have you heard of SIAM, or Service Integration & Management? It is becoming increasingly adopted by organizations to help simplify supplier management. So, what exactly does SIAM involve? To put it simply, SIAM is the process of integrating the management of multiple suppliers and business services under one single organization and its requirements. This means … Continue reading What is SIAM (Service Integration & Management)?
IT managers and workers should take advantage of automated tasks, as they are often busy with numerous responsibilities throughout their day to day work. Many systems are now available that boast automation in software requesting, deployment, and provisioning. Here are our top five tasks that should be automated to improve the quality and time spent … Continue reading Top 5 IT Tasks to Automate
As software vendors’ move towards a service distribution model the pace in which vendors are moving legacy software to end of life appears to be accelerating. Just as IT departments recover from last year’s Windows XP end-of-life, Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10 received their last update in this week’s patch Tuesday (January 12th … Continue reading How to manage Internet Explorer 8, 9 & 10 end of life
Oh, the New Year – a time when you inevitably make some grand resolution, that you promise to work hard towards for the rest of the year. Unfortunately, it often does not turn out this way, as new year resolutions are often more of a symbolic concept than some task that you actually focus on … Continue reading Get “License Fit” in 2016