Proactively manage the usage and ownership of IT assets across your enterprise to optimize IT asset allocation and avoid unnecessary purchases, decrease the risk of software noncompliance fines and penalties, and support detailed invoice reconciliation.
The Challenge
Without a strategic investment in information asset management, you may lack insight into the many facets of your IT asset base, limiting financial transparency and hindering your compliance and process improvement efforts.
- How are you managing your IT assets through their lifecycle today?
- How do you track and report on IT asset costs?
- Are you prepared for an audit (software, regulatory, etc.)?
- How are you aligning IT assets with associated financial and contractual terms?
- How much time and effort are you expending to fulfill IT asset requests?
- How do you obtain asset information when a service desk ticket is opened?
The Solution
CA IT Asset Management is an information asset management solution that helps you:
- Automate the management of IT assets throughout their lifecycle
- Create and maintain detailed vendor profiles and define vendor contracts
- Map financial and contractual attributes to a consolidated repository of IT assets
- Simplify software license management to minimize risk of non-compliance
- Integrate IT asset data with operational support processes such your service desk and asset disposal services
- Deliver self-service asset request capability that leverages stock on hand, helping you to avoid unnecessary asset purchases
The Details
With CA IT Asset Management, you can:
- Make informed business decisions to optimize asset inventory and utilization
- Facilitate remediation activities to help minimize exposure to risk
- Streamline contract and vendor management processes to facilitate accurate cost management and provide more power at the bargaining table
- Reduce asset downtime, streamline move-add-change processes and improve overall quality of service
- Support just-in-time inventory acquisition processes, reduce rogue purchases and streamline reconciliation of owned vs. deployed assets