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IT Asset Management for Microsoft® System Center

Gord Watts, ProvanceChristian Booth, Microsoft

© 2014 Provance Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved2

Agenda• IT Asset Management – What and Why?• Microsoft System Center as a platform

for IT Asset Management• Demo• Resources• Questions


Benefits of IT Asset Management

• Accurate capture and compelling articulation of credibility and capability

• Effective and efficient delivery of the message

• Effective and efficient packaging of the message

ControlCost

ReduceRisk

ImproveEfficiency


Source: Gartner, May 2013

“IT asset management (ITAM) is a framework and set of processes for strategically tracking and managing the financial, physical, licensing and contractual aspects of IT assets through their life cycle.”

What is IT Asset Management?


IT Asset Management Focus

Financial Contractual OrganizationalGovernance

Configuration Management IS NOTIT Asset Management!


Requisition Procurement

Deployment

Maintenance Retirement

The IT Asset Life Cycle

Requested On Order Shipped Received Retired

Stored

Installed

On Repair

Disposed

Returned


Requisition Procurement

Deployment

Maintenance Retirement

IT Asset Management – It’s About Process

Requested On Order Shipped Received Retired

Stored

Installed

On Repair

Disposed

Returned


Microsoft® System Center as a Platform for IT Asset Management

Functionality• IT Service

Management• CMDB• Inventory• User and org

detail• Self service• Automation

Knowledge• Built with

familiar Microsoft applications and technologies• Rich partner

community expertise

Leverage• Existing licenses

as part of most Microsoft volume agreements• Existing

deployments of System Center components


Provance®• Independent vendor of IT Asset

Management software since 1997• Created the first third party

process management pack for System Center• Extended functionality for Service

Manager:• IT Asset Management• Data import• Physical inventory management

The life of an asset – A demonstration



Resources• Microsoft.com for System Center

2012 R2 – Service Manager information, trial software and Christian’s blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/ • Provance.com for IT Asset

Management information, trial software and Gord’s blog• SystemCenterSolutionStore.com

for partner solutions• Come see Gord and Christian at the

Provance booth

http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/





Questions?

Gord WattsProvance

[email protected]

Christian BoothMicrosoft

[email protected]

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