Multi-subsidiary ITAM rarely fails because you picked the wrong tool. It fails one layer down, in the data architecture underneath it. If you run IT asset management for a company with subsidiaries, or you’re the systems admin who keeps getting asked for a license count nobody can agree on, or the procurement lead trying to […]
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In my experience, board reporting rarely fails because a chart is difficult to read. It fails when a director asks a simple follow-up question: Where did this number come from? At that moment, confidence does not come from the presentation. It comes from the records underneath it. If IT spend is assembled from finance exports,
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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
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An IT audit should not feel like a fire drill. But for many IT teams, it does, because the asset data auditors need is rarely stored in a single, clean, reliable place. It may exist across spreadsheets, SaaS tools, cloud systems, ticketing platforms, procurement records, and email threads. That scattered data becomes harder to defend
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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
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PART 3 OF A SERIES ON MID-MARKET IT ASSET MANAGEMENT Part 1: Your Fixed Asset Register Is an Archaeological Site Part 2: You Have Asset Data. You Do Not Have Asset Management. The drawer of saved things, the question before the purchase order, and the discipline of not buying. The drawer of saved things In
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Introduction With a growing trend toward hybrid and remote work, there has been a massive change in what IT asset management has to control. Laptops, monitors, software licenses, access rights, and support requests are no longer tied to a single office, network, or predictable handoff process. IT assets now move across homes, coworking spaces, branch
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PART 2 OF A SERIES ON MID-MARKET IT ASSET MANAGEMENT The conversation every mid-market IT director has had. Let me describe a conversation I have had more times than I care to count. “Where is the asset register?” “It’s in the service desk.” We opened the service desk. The assets are there. Some imported, some
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Hybrid ITAM means tracking on-premises and cloud assets, such as servers, licenses, SaaS subscriptions, VMs, and containers, inside a single system of record instead of separate tools for each environment. Cloud migration does not change the need for asset management. It expands the surface area ITAM has to cover because two environments now generate assets
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PART 1 OF A SERIES ON MID-MARKET IT ASSET MANAGEMENT Nobody was driving. The meter was running. I. The room The room always looks the same. Different city, different industry, different decade, the same room. A screen open somewhere. A request hanging in the air. And a silence; a particular, room-temperature silence that arrives before
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