ITAM fundamentals/strategy

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

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!