LANDesk Asset Lifecycle management™

Account for Assets and Ensure Their Effective Use

Every asset has a lifecycle. The key to effective IT asset management is knowing precisely where a particular asset is in its lifecycle—at any given moment—and whether it is providing its intended value. If you know the current state of an asset, then you can intelligently plan IT updates/replacements and budgets as well as installations, changes and procurement activities.

The best tool to help you physically account for your organization’s critical assets and ensure their effective use is LANDesk® Asset Lifecycle Manager.

Structure Your Asset Data

LANDesk Asset Lifecycle Manager combines a structured asset repository with a state transition engine to trigger context-specific task automation that extends the management of your organization’s assets, starting before the asset exists and going beyond when the asset is retired.

By enabling workflow execution in conjunction with changes in an asset’s attributes or lifecycle state, Asset Lifecycle Manager keeps asset data fresh and relevant—and informs stakeholders of important changes. It captures the core data that organizations need to demonstrate immediate and significant value to their entire business.

This data enables operational control of hardware, software, and other assets, and ties them to organizational and financial information for strategic planning. This enables complex value and accountability management, and ties asset data into your larger IT service management strategy.

With LANDesk Asset Manager, you can generate a visual map of the assets in your environment and how they relate to each other. Use this relationship data to view connections among assets, contracts, licenses, and organizational units, and to report asset accountability across those relationships.

Understanding the relationships among computers, users, maintenance agreements, software licenses, discovery data, and entitlements gives you the tools and data to support comprehensive software asset management, compliance reporting, and cost recovery efforts.

Gain Control, Reap the Rewards

By developing and implementing a world-class asset management practice, you’ll be able to:

  • Discover, validate, reconcile and aggregate data from multiple sources into a central asset repository for cost control and accountability
  • Manage software license compliance, as well as regulatory, security, privacy and tax requirements
  • See the relationships among hardware, software, contracts, users, and organizational units to enable comprehensive asset reporting
  • Track lifecycle states for each managed asset and use state changes to trigger automated workflows to ensure consistent execution of critical business processes
  • Maintain change histories across an asset’s entire lifecycle—including connecting to the service desk to generate incident and service histories
  • Maintain tight control over investment and aggregation of cost data
  • Allow your business management, financial and IT staff to provide more effective service with immediate access to current, accurate asset data
  • Keep data fresh with scheduled data sync from multiple sources, and automated stakeholder notification when key data changes

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    Are you considering LANDesk Asset Lifecycle management™ for your organizaton? Let the Kifinti Solutions expert team help you. We can leverage our many successful implementations and strong industry relationships to help make your project a success. Ask about a free product evaluation.

     
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