IBM Tivoli
Asset Management for IT
IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT enables efficient and effective management of the IT asset lifecycle, to lower cost, mitigate license and regulatory compliance risk, and better align IT with business goals.
Managing the thousands of IT assets spread across an organisation can be a difficult, time consuming and costly task. IT asset managers need a solution that enables them to manage software, hardware and related information across the infrastructure — throughout the asset life cycle — and to manage the financial impact of IT assets and costs related to procurement, overprovisioning, budgeting and compliance.
IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is a complete IT asset management application that combines inventory, financial, maintenance and contract management into one easy-to-use interface. This entirely Web-architected application helps organisations to track and efficiently manage the complete life cycle of IT assets. As a result, Tivoli Asset Management for IT helps to:
- Control costs of procurement, licensing and maintenance agreements.
- More accurately forecast for future IT needs.
- Minimise maverick software and hardware purchases.
- Maintain — and document — internal, contractual and regulatory compliance efforts for software licenses and hardware leases.
Features:
- Optimize IT asset utilisation and IT service levels: deploy not more, not less.
- Closely align IT with business requirements through IT asset cost and usage information.
- Reduce IT asset cost by redeploying underutilised assets and avoiding software overlicensing.
- Relevant contract, lease, warranty and license data minimizes procurement & maintenance expenses and helps negotiate contract renewals.
- Improve Service Desk quality & incident resolution time with accurate IT asset information.
Business Benefit:
- Help control the costs and financial impact of IT assets with a single solution that tracks and manages hardware, software and related information throughout their life cycle
- Mitigate risks associated with compliance violations arising under license agreements and regulatory requirements
- Help maximise the use of IT resources by identifying and redeploying underutilised assets
- Help minimize procurement and maintenance expenses by analyzing relevant data regarding contracts, licenses, warranties and more
- Leverage IT asset data to more effectively plan, budget and prepare for hardware and software contract renewals
- Reconcile deployed asset configurations on the network and in the field against authorized asset configurations