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IT Asset Management: By the Numbers - The Bottom Line

Sep 14, 2015 |
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This is Part 5 of a 5-part series on Calculating the ROI of an ITAM Solution. The entire series is available as a complimentary white paper in PDF format for download here.
 

Part 5 of 5: The Bottom Line

5_connectivity-1Many vendors offer ITAM tools to inventory and audit data center assets, including web-based, visualization, connectivity modules, and mobile devices to make inventorying and auditing easier.

When properly implemented in the data center, ITAM tools can help to increase inventory accuracy and reduce the time and manpower required for inventory and audit processes.

The ROI for ITAM is simple:

ITAM Solution Checklist

When selecting an IT Asset Management solution, it must meet the following criteria to ensure the highest level of efficiency, accuracy and usability within the data center:

  • Predefined, customizable manufacturers list to ensure uniform data collection
  • Granular audit tracking
  • Advanced reporting capability including a full complement of canned reports and a custom reporting engine
  • Ability to manage multiple data centers
  • Full integration with DCIM tools
  • Browser-based, compatible with all web browsers as well as iPad and smartphones
  • Dynamic rack elevations
  • Top-down data center views
  • Customizable labels to match existing tools
  • Full IT asset tracking via portals with email, text, and ability to trigger work tickets

Asset Vue's suite of technology and IT asset management solutions deliver all of the above and more. Our team of experts have combined decades of experience in the IT industry and have built a proven system to increase the effectiveness and reduce the cost of your IT asset management system. Our clients choose Asset Vue for more than an ITAM software solution, but to solve costly problems in asset management with a tailor-made approach.

Meet our team and get a 30-minute free demonstration of our technology and system today!

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Read the whole 5-Part Series: IT Asset Management: By the Numbers

  1. Introduction
  2. What is IT Asset Management (ITAM)
  3. Why Inventory & Audit the Data Center?
  4. The High Cost of Manual IT Asset Management
  5. The Bottom Line

Download the complimentary white paper: IT Asset Management: By the Numbers Calculating the ROI of and ITAM Solution

 

Sean Cotter is President of Asset Vue, bringing 27 years of experience in IT leadership, business development, and entrepreneurship. He leads the company’s strategic direction and team, helping organizations simplify inventory management through RFID and barcode technology, automated data capture, and asset lifecycle tracking.

Sean’s expertise spans RFID and automatic identification technologies, process optimization, data center infrastructure management, and environmental monitoring. Before Asset Vue, he founded and grew an outsourced IT business and later served as Director of IT and CIO at the DVL Group. He has also taught Operations Management as an Adjunct Professor at West Chester University and holds a master’s degree in business from Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business.

His writing draws on this operational and technology experience to explore practical approaches to asset visibility, inventory accuracy, and more efficient IT asset management.

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