5 Tips for Effective IT Asset Management
IT is far more than software and code. IT support teams deal with virtual and physical assets as well - the key infrastructure that the business runs on. Businesses have often sunk significant money into their infrastructure. However, few properly manage it, incurring unnecessary costs, impacting productivity, and introducing legal and security risks. Here are 5 tips for effective IT asset management.Inventory Everything
The first step is creating a central asset repository. This will be the one place where all inventory information is stored, be it software licenses or hardware components, physical items and virtual and cloud-based assets. Depending on what operating systems a company uses, there are a variety of scans and discovery techniques that can compile this information for ev...