IT Asset Management addresses questions such as: What are your organisation’s IT assets? Where are they? How much do they cost? When are they due for maintenance or retirement? How many are due to be replaced? How many are leased?
What penalties are immanent? What is the status of software compliance? If an organisation is finding it hard to answer any of these questions then the IT Asset Management is called for.
JDS provides advice, professional services and tools to help IT organisations plan, manage and replace equipment as well as ensure software compliance. JDS services provided include:
- Discovery and Dependency Mapping inventory (DDMi).
JDS can help by providing and configuring HP DDMi to discover your IT inventory including hardware and software as well as determining software utilisation. - Asset Life Cycle Management.
Key aspect of Asset Management is determining the Total Cost of Ownership throughout an asset’s productive life: From procurement to implementation and through to retirement. JDS can assist in improving the effectiveness of the IT Management team to track IT asset expenses by helping to get the best out of HP Asset Manager. - Software Asset Management.
Software Asset Management involves tracking software license agreements and contracts and ascertaining software compliance. JDS can assist by configuring HP DDMi or tapping into other discovery data sets and loading the results into HP Asset Manager. JDS can further help by configuring HP Asset Manager to benefit from this discovery data and determine your organisation’s software compliance status.