09:05 Minutes – Recorded 19 May 2015 Vector has come to market with next-generation solutions, which bring together Service Management and Asset Management through business process management. This new ecosystem is where we will spend most of our demo time today. However, it is this cutting edge process management that allows our clients to increase … Continue reading IT Service Management & Asset Management “Process Glue”
01:19 Minutes – Recorded 1st May 2015 SCCM Vizor integrates with your existing Microsoft System Center infrastructure to reduce your IT costs by optimizing administration of your IT assets. Vector SCCM Vizor provides a powerful web based interface for management of the complete IT asset life cycle. SCCM Vizor calculates asset depreciation, manages provisioning to … Continue reading Vizor for SCCM short introduction
Today’s slim-line IT management teams need to be aware of the benefits that will accrue from adopting a strategy of pro-active software asset optimization. Further, the concepts outlined here are as valid for cloud services and mobile apps, as for conventional on-premise packages. Step 1: Asset Inventory Executing a full hardware and software inventory collection … Continue reading Software Asset Optimization: Fast Track to Benefits
Software Asset Management Managing the licensing and maintenance of an organization’s software is a thankless and usually lonely task. Who would want to be sandwiched between the user community that wants instant access to any app it thinks it needs, software vendors out to maximize revenues, and the CFO’s focus on year-on-year cost reduction? With … Continue reading Applying BPM methods in Software Asset Governance
IT Asset Management and IT Asset Lifecycle In February I reported on a request from a potential IT Asset Management customer to expand our excellent but conventional ITAM technology to include full Asset Lifecycle capability. In our perception, if it is to be pro-active, and provide more than just a static database for recording asset … Continue reading An IT Asset Ecosystem: update
IT Asset and Service Management – conflicting objectives? IT Asset Management and IT Service Management continue to exist as independent disciplines, serving different objectives and occasionally coming into conflict as a result. With asset management under pressure to reduce costs, and service management under pressure to maximize service availability, perhaps some tensions are inevitable. That … Continue reading ‘ITASM’ – long overdue…..
Some organizations tolerate siloed elements of infrastructure management if they can see that individual silos are performing well. So the additional benefits that could accrue from creating connections are sacrificed to avoid disturbing the smooth running operations in each silo. Breaching or tearing down the silo walls will only happen with leadership, from someone not … Continue reading An IT Asset Ecosystem: customer vision
Software Inventory – still a core requirement Until recently, optimizing software licensing and maintenance costs started with collection of a robust inventory of application installations across the network. Configuration lockdown provided some safeguard against individuals using their company credit card to download their preferred applications but is hard to administer except perhaps as a by-product … Continue reading Cloud services and software asset management
Quantifying IT resource needs Many organizations deal with the challenge of software license provision by over-purchasing relative to need. Many organizations have poor visibility of how many licenses are needed for any given application, and in some cases simply purchase a copy for every user in Active Directory. In considering the amount of money that … Continue reading IT Asset Management – a matter of Governance?
IT Asset Data – natural for SQL tables The decision to publish the format of the database of our former IT asset management product Asset Manager Pro was taken many years ago at the inception of the software. Reasons at the time were a mixture of ethical, practical and marketing. – Ethical because we felt it … Continue reading Customer benefits of an open format IT asset database
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