^{Asset Management Solution}

^{Gain Visibility and Control over Your IT Assets and Costs}

^{Discover and maintain your IT asset inventory with efficient auto-discovery. You can discover IT assets from Windows, Linux, Mac, AIX, and Solaris, as well as printers, routers, switches, and more.}

^{Despite these benefits, a lot of service desks stick with spreadsheets and collaboration software like SharePoint to manage their IT, which just provide the illusion of ITAM. While spreadsheets are a welcome change to ledgers, they are static and often fail to give a complete overview of the life cycle of an asset from procurement to retirement. As a result, costs can skyrocket due to unprecedented purchases and expensive software audits.}

Benefits of IT asset management

^{The upside of having an asset management system is that it offers a holistic view of your assets, which helps you:}

^{Manage the complete life cycle of an asset.}
^{Maintain a common asset repository.}
^{Keep costs in check.}
^{Optimize asset utilization.}
^{Minimize risks by adhering to compliance regulations.}
^{Respond quickly to software audits.}

^{In this context, ITAM plays a crucial role in guiding companies to inventory their asset estate, eliminate assets that are prone to breakdowns, proactively address issues and improve efficiency. ITAM software enable the help achieve the above benefits through out of the box features, and automations and make managing assets easy at every stage of the asset life cycle. For example, barcode scanning, periodic network scanning, and other automations simplify the task of tracking and updating IT asset inventory, giving you a real-time view of all your assets in a single dashboard.}

^{- Discover, Manage, and Track All Your Hardware Assets.} ^{Scan all your Windows devices, non-Window devices, VMs, and network devices through simple asset scanning techniques.} ^{Get comprehensive asset information like hardware specification, software installed, scan history, asset ownership history, and asset states in a single pane of glass.} ^{Build and maintain a separate inventory to manage all your non-IT assets.}	^{IT asset inventory management system}
^{IT asset tracking in ServiceDesk Plus}	^{- Map Asset Relationships with CMDB. Understand Your IT Environment Better.} ^{Create a high level of synergy by building relationships between people, assets, and other Configuration Items (CI).} ^{Use pre-defined and custom relationship types to get a visual view of asset relationships.} ^{Enable an effective problem management and change management planning by building a logical model of your IT infrastructure in the CMDB.}
^{- Manage Software and Ensure Compliance. Sail Through Audits Easily.} ^{Improve software governance by monitoring software usage (unused, rarely used, and so on), number of installations, license types, compliance status, and license expiration.} ^{Isolate vulnerabilities like malware and unauthorized or prohibited software to reduce potential risks.} ^{Manage software licenses for every software installation on every workstation across the enterprise.} ^{Track over licensed, under licensed, and compliant software to ensure software license compliance.} ^{Sail through software audits easily by tracking every installation and allocating individual software licenses across installations.}	^{Software asset management in ServiceDesk Plus}
^{PO & contract management in ServiceDesk Plus}	^{- Track IT Asset Purchases and Contracts. Manage IT Budgets Better.} ^{Manage the complete life cycle of purchase orders with a structured approval and delivery process.} ^{Maintain a complete product catalog of all assets owned by the company with price and warranty details.} ^{Maintain a vendor catalog, compare prices from different vendors, and analyze purchase trends to leverage negotiations.} ^{Keep track of IT contracts and get notified about their expiry in advance.}