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Q&A - Why Centralize IT Asset Management? |
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Q.) Are we doing this wrong? In my company, there is no central focus or control process for technology asset management—much less software.
A.) If this is the case, one of the most effective steps you can take to reduce IT costs is to centralize and control technology spending and tech asset management (TAM, SAM). Focusing control of the life cycle management of technology assets will enable your company to improve sourcing; control acquisition costs; ensure that you acquire only the assets genuinely necessary to the operation of the business; expand and control vendor relations; ensure that products and services actually perform according to your requirements; regulate documentation; control strategic access and legal compliance… The list goes on and on.
Failing to centralize isn’t necessarily wrong—in and of itself. Instead, a failure to control technology assets across their entire life cycle will quite simply cost you significantly more money and expose the company to substantially more risk issues. The most effective process we have found to build these controls into your technology asset management (ITAM) or software asset management process (SAM) is to ensure that a centrally empowered group of qualified asset management experts guides the infrastructure.
Cost free/cost cutting, example:
Industry research has found that, in the average company, fewer than 50% of the computers are actually in use during any given hour of the business day. Given the cost you pay per kilowatt hour to run the systems, you could save as much as $100 per year per computer/monitor simply by ensuring the each system enters sleep mode when not in use. How many systems do you own? Multiply by $100. How much did you just save?
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