ITAM fundamentals/strategy

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

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

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

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

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

Discover how AssetSonar gives IT teams complete control over hardware assets, from procurement and assignment to maintenance and retirement. This datasheet highlights how you can centralize asset data, automate workflows, ensure accountability, and gain real-time visibility to make informed decisions across the entire asset lifecycle. Was this helpful? Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!

AssetSonar gives IT teams a connected view of hardware, software, lifecycle activity, offboarding, patching, and automation. This datasheet explains how the unified IT Graph supports asset visibility, license optimization, and workflow accuracy. It is built around stronger governance, compliance, and cost control. Was this helpful? Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!

Introduction Axonius is often evaluated by teams that need a clearer, more trusted view of assets across security, endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, network, and IT systems. Axonius positions its platform around decision-grade asset intelligence and says it unifies disjointed coverage across devices, identities, applications, infrastructure, and more.  But not every buyer searching for Axonius alternatives

Most teams do not replace Snipe-IT because check-in and checkout suddenly stop working. They replace it because the operating model around the asset register becomes expensive. A technician has to update a laptop record after an MDM change. Software installations live in a separate tool. Offboarding crosses HR, identity, endpoint management, the service desk, and