Asset Management Suite (AMS)

Complete Management of IT Assets
IT organizations are constantly being asked to do more with less. As a result, companies are searching for ways to cut costs, increase IT resource productivity, and better utilize existing investments. The renewed focus on IT has helped to elevate the role of the IT organization from a custodian of the business to a strategic partner concentrated on aligning and supporting corporate initiatives. To maximize the value of IT assets, IT organizations must increase asset availability levels to supply end users with an environment that breeds productivity. IT organizations must be able to answer these questions:

• Do you fully understand the asset configuration, location, and relationships within your organization's infrastructure?
• Do you know how your assets are being used?
• How effective are your assets in supporting corporate objectives?
• Do you know the total cost of IT assets, including procurement, maintenance, end-user support, depreciation, and disposal costs?
• Can you do more to ensure the availability of your corporate IT assets?

Altiris Asset Management Suite addresses these issues.

Active Asset Management: Don't Just Track - Execute

Asset Management Suite combines enterprise asset and service management disciplines into a single Web-based architecture, repository, and console helping unite disparate departments and processes. By actively managing the entire asset lifecycle, the suite helps organizations eliminate unnecessary software and hardware costs, proactively manage vendor contracts, and align service resources with ITIL to ensure IT investments are optimized. Use Asset Management Suite to:

• Simplify implementation of out-of-box ITIL asset and service management processes
• Actively track IT asset location, configuration, deployed versions, relationships, and historical information
• Actively track software and hardware usage for reallocation and contract negotiation
• Proactively resolve incidents and problems to ensure asset and service availability
• Allow employees to resolve their own issues with self-help
• Enable better business decision-making processes with real-time diagnostic information
• Solve immediate problems while building a roadmap for the future with snap-in, modular design

Altiris understands the complexities associated with implementing a system designed to manage the entire asset lifecycle. The snap-in modular design allows Asset Management Suite to extend functionality to help guide customers as they continue to mature and align organizational resources to industry standards and best practices.

Level 3 - Incident management - Problem management - Change management - Knowledge management - Employee self-help
Level 2 - Asset repository - Contract and SLA management - Financial systems integration - TCO reporting
Level 1 - Comprehensive hardware and software inventory - Application usage and denial of service

Asset Management Suite can help your organization control IT costs, use IT to drive profitability, optimize existing infrastructure and investments, and align IT resources to better support corporate initiatives and technology shifts.