IT Asset Management (ITAM)

Key takeaways: IT teams can have accurate asset records and still struggle to answer basic leadership questions: What is driving IT spend? Which assets need replacing next? Where are the biggest licensing or compliance gaps? The challenge is turning operational ITAM data into information CIOs, CFOs, and security leaders can actually use. That requires more […]

Key takeaways: IT managers replacing Ivanti often face a difficult choice. Ivanti’s product portfolio spans IT service management, IT asset management, endpoint management, patching, and secure access. The right alternative therefore depends on the specific products and workflows in use. A platform that replaces Ivanti Neurons for ITSM may not address the requirements handled by

When an employee leaves and IT cannot locate their laptop, the missing piece is often the custody record. IT asset check-in/check-out software records who has each device, where it is, and when it was assigned, transferred, or returned. In this guide, custody means physical possession and accountability, while assignment refers to the system action that

Over the last 12 months, we followed nine IT teams that faced the same decision: buy an IT asset management platform or build their own. Some relied on spreadsheets, while others created custom databases or SharePoint lists. One team even explored using AI agents to automate asset management. Although their approaches differed, similar challenges emerged

IT Asset Management used to serve a single function: tracking what a business owns. That’s changing. CIOs are increasingly relying on ITAM solutions to decide what they should and shouldn’t keep paying for. Meanwhile, the teams that get burned aren’t the ones without an ITAM tool; they’re the ones whose ITAM tool only tells them