Vector IT Asset Management Solutions
Asset Locator with RFID
Knowing at all times where your assets are

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Business Needs Answered

Organizations use this solution to -

  • Ensure the organization can at all times account for the assets held on its asset register
  • Strengthen their asset loss prevention measures as a key component of the organization's security
  • Drastically reduce the costs of auditing the existence of assets
  • Reduce the risk of accidental data loss or disclosure (through monitoring the location of systems holding sensitive information)
  • Enable scarce resources to be more readily and efficiently shared (by always knowing where they are, and potentially who with)
  • In high security scenarios, detect when systems are no longer in close association with authorised personnel

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Customer Perspectives

Today's concern over IT asset and data losses creates pressure for reactive measures. The pressure is particularly great for bodies that are publicly accountable - whether to shareholders or taxpayers.

There is consequently a risk of investing reactively in asset security technology, such as RFID, and at Vector we believe that, in any case, any technology investment should deliver the broadest returns possible.

Organizations can use a locator technology such as RFID to form a bridge between the interests of desktop and IT service management and those of asset and data security.

Solution Essentials

  • Asset Locator provides Vector's foundation Asset Discovery and Mapping solution, extended by integration with an RFID tracking package chosen to match the needs of the situation. Asset Locator installations are normally provided within a start-to-finish services-based project.
  • The Asset Discovery and Mapping solution automatically surveys your network, locates and inventories PCs and network devices, and creates network topology diagrams that map PCs, printers and other networked equipment to particular ports on managed network devices.
  • This information is then extended with asset location information imported from the RFID tracking package. The solution provides static location information, and location change and exception reporting, limited only by the specification of the selected RFID monitoring package.
  • Vector Asset Locator also provides the full set of drill-down, Web-based reports that comes as standard with the Asset Discovery and Mapping solution, organised in sets around your IT asset management business needs.
  • All data is held and regularly refreshed in Vector's SQL-compatible Asset Management Database, typically containing thousands of assets. The database supports the addition of customer-defined asset types, enabling the use of RFID tagging to be extended beyond laptops and PCs to any other asset.

Asset Locator Implementations: Professional Services

Every Vector Asset Locator project is individually tailored, based on a menu of services -

  • Management Overview: Assessment of objectives, identification of target assets, definition of realistic expectations
  • Preliminary Study before project commitment, including budgetary costing
  • Selection of optimum RFID technology from Vector's portfolio of approved RFID partners
  • Location survey - usually carried out collaboratively with the customer's buildings management staff
  • Asset tagging
  • Commissioning and training
  • Review sessions: typically 6 month and annual
  • Start to End project management involvement - usually in association with customer project management personnel

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Available for MSDE, SQL Server and Oracle

Out of the box, this solution will automatically create an initial evaluation database using MSDE, enabling you to evaluate the capabilities without needing to allocate managed SQL Server resources. Conversion over to SQL Server is simple and automated. Some larger organizations have standardization of all database applications around Oracle, and these customers should consult their Vector Solution provider for information and guidance on configuration of their Oracle database.

RFID - forming a bridge between Security and Asset and Service Management

In all cases of an Asset Locator installation, although Security has been the initial driver for the introduction of RFID, Vector has been able to demonstrate how the RFID location information can add value into both Asset and Service Management areas of IT. See our White Paper that explains how.

Further Information and Resources

If you prefer to review information before downloading a trial copy of the foundation Asset Discovery and Mapping solution, the following resources are available to you -

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