Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

December 2019

Don't Forget About ITAM for Driving IT Maturity

At its core, the mission of the IT organization is to deliver services by leveraging assets and data that are the living infrastructure of the business. While most IT professionals would agree with this statement, we commonly see the focus of the organization moving to service delivery or security due to the perceived higher visibility and risks associated with these elements of IT.

Do You Need ITAM If You Are Using a CMDB?

Many organizations are looking at IT asset management (ITAM) solutions to ensure that all IT assets are properly discovered, tracked, secured, and disposed of at the end of the asset’s lifecycle. IT administrators often ask me if they can use a configuration management database (CMDB) to meet their ITAM requirements. Administrators are concerned that tracking IT assets in two solutions will require them to duplicate each IT asset record in addition to increasing their workload.

Software Asset Management: It's More than Audit and Compliance

Most people, when they think about Software Asset Management (SAM) (and, let’s be honest, most people try to avoid thinking about it at all), they think about minimizing disruption and cost of audits and ensuring that the organization remains in a compliant state to avoid heavy fines from their vendors. To be fair to these people, that is what a large part of SAM is—ensuring that the organization is paying appropriately for the products they use to avoid costly audits or legal battles.

Give the Gift of Ivanti: Here Are the Products Our Customers Love the Most

Our Ivanti products are kind of like our children. We've raised them to be what they are today—through all of their various transformations and growing pains. We're proud of them when they venture out into the world and make it a better place. Like presents around the Christmas tree, they each bring something unique to the Ivanti portfolio. That's why it's hard to single any one of them out or love one more than another. We don't play favorites. So we asked our customers to, instead.

Fantastic CMDBs and How to Find Them

J.K. Rowling created a book in 2001 based off a small series of books that you may have heard of (Harry Potter, in case you didn’t get the subtle hint) called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The book acts as a reference and guidebook for all the mythical creatures that you find in the Harry Potter world. It’s a textbook that is even referenced in the Harry Potter films as something the main characters must study.

A Quick Look at ITAM and the Cloud

John F. Kennedy described the journey into space as "...the most hazardous, and dangerous, and greatest adventure of which man has ever embarked." And that can sometimes feel like it applies to cloud asset management, too! While there are many analogies one can draw between space and the cloud, the idea of a vast, seemingly limitless, expanding area where new, ever stranger, things are discovered all the time seems quite apt.

The 5 Keys of a Successful ITAM Execution Framework

IT Asset Management (ITAM) is a deep and broad topic and like a lot of terms in our industry, it can mean different things to different people, so it is important to draw a line in the sand and establish a common denominator for the discussions by understanding what aspects are important to your organization, and more importantly why?

5 Reasons Why IT Asset Management Is Key to Your Business

The holiday season is always a good time to slow down, meditate, and be grateful for family, friends, and the blessings you have in your life. And believe it or not, I think this is a good practice to do in IT as well. You’re fighting the good fight day after day, extinguishing fires, battling resource and budget constraints, and dealing with more than enough on your Christmas dinner plate.

ITAM - 4 Tips to Break Down Your Organizational Data Silos

With technology innovations occurring daily, it’s important for companies to ensure that their IT investment is working efficiently. To do this, a little something (or big depending on how long it is since you’ve taken an inventory!) called IT Asset Management (ITAM for short) helps you manage your IT assets throughout their lifecycle.

Key ITAM Skills They Don't Tell You About

In the film Taken, Liam Neeson states that he has a "particular set of skills" that he plans on using to find the kidnappers who have taken his daughter. He’s very clear about what skills are required and how he is going to use them. With that in mind, there is a very particular set of skills that an IT Asset Management (ITAM) professional thinks they need to forge a successful career.

The Business Case for Unified IT

Maximizing operational efficiencies, reducing IT costs, and improving service quality and compliance are just a few of the primary concerns for IT organizations looking to improve their efficiency and deliver more strategic value to their companies. This challenge is made more complex when IT Service and Unified Endpoint Management processes are managed manually, or across a number of disparate systems or applications, which can be costly and time intensive in an increasingly complex IT environment.

Ivanti IT Asset Management (ITAM)

By using a process-driven IT asset management (ITAM) program to analyze what you own and how you're using it, you lighten your load at audit time by being in command of the information your software and hardware vendors will demand. You also stand to trim your costs by recovering and reallocating underutilized software licenses, buying only what you need when you need it, and making more lucrative agreements with your vendors.