How to manage the company's it assets?

IT asset management is logically the same as traditional asset management, but the most important difference between it asset management and traditional enterprise asset management is its real-time performance. Therefore, very advanced technology can be adopted in the management mode, and these changes can be triggered automatically. The asset management of an enterprise is usually managed by the financial department, and the business demand determines that the IT asset management must be managed by the IT department. The emphasis of the two is different, which causes many management problems. By implementing IT asset management, we can reduce expenses, improve IT productivity and service level, reduce risks and improve IT transparency.

With the construction of government informatization and e-government, IT asset management of government departments has become very important. Managing and using the original equipment and software, improving the working efficiency of IT managers, managing inventory and saving energy are the basis for determining how many new IT equipment the government purchases.

The financial industry requires high security and stability of information systems, so it is necessary to comprehensively monitor the model, control panel, connection and operation of all information assets, realize the automatic and scientific management of IT assets, and create the maximum use value of IT assets.

Telecommunications is a high-tech industry. Due to the huge IT assets of telecom, accurate asset knowledge and accountability system are very important to ensure the optimization of IT expenditure. Need to know what assets are there, where they are now, how to use them, and how to write them off from the accounts if they are no longer used, in order to improve cost control. Related to these costs are software licenses and updates. If the system has been integrated or virtualization technology has been deployed, software licenses should also be merged to further save costs.

How to manage IT assets well is a difficult problem that must be solved before CIO, the information director. IT asset management spans several departments of the government or enterprises and needs the support of senior leaders of the government or enterprises. Whether it is funds, high-quality employees, or coordination between relevant departments, CIO needs to pay a lot of time and energy. Through a lot of practical exploration, investigation and discussion, this paper puts forward the solution of IT asset management of government or enterprise, which can collect the data of government or enterprise IT equipment comprehensively and in real time, provide various forms of reports, ensure that leaders and IT managers can understand the asset status from different angles, respond to the various report requirements of superiors and other departments in time, realize the automation of asset management process, effectively improve control and return on investment, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations.

IT asset management is implemented from asset life cycle management, including existing network equipment, servers, PCs, notebooks, printers, inventory of IT equipment, equipment maintenance, lease, depreciation period of equipment, scrapping, etc. Used genuine software, upgrade, maintenance, etc. Understand the use of equipment inventory and software, make appropriate decisions when purchasing new equipment and software, and help the government or enterprises reduce waste.

Therefore, to do a good job in IT asset management, we should first use various software management tools to understand the software and hardware currently used by the government or enterprises in time and form a complete IT asset library. IT asset management tools can help the government or enterprises manage the entire IT asset library from the perspectives of cost, contract, support and inventory. It provides a powerful technical platform for asset management. Using the information acquisition function of tool software, IT asset managers can clearly know the hardware information, software type and version installed on the server or client PC, including manually installed software. Track licensing information related to user name, department, asset list, etc. , and manage according to user information.

Secondly, "management +IT": to realize the change of IT asset management, the government or enterprise IT management department can "make overall plans, combine processes and implement them step by step" and realize IT asset management with the help of IT technology. Track all types of IT assets. Record the demand, configuration, replacement, classification and final scrap history of IT assets, provide life cycle management of IT assets, and provide complete IT asset data for cost management.

With the extensive application of best practice frameworks such as ITIL in IT service quality control system, asset management has become an important part to support IT operation. At the same time, the adjustment of IT architecture has brought a new round of benefits to asset management. After CMDB (Configuration Management Database) was established as the new core of IT management, asset management, service management, configuration management and policy management became the key modules that tightly wrapped the CMDB core.

At present, IT service management is widely used in government, telecommunications, finance, education and other industries, and the corresponding solutions and operation and maintenance tools are also the most mature, which has become a successful IT service management industry in China. Guangtong Xinda has invested a lot of energy in government, telecommunications, finance and other industries, and its main customers are also from these industries. Guangtong started as an IT operation and maintenance service in the government industry, so its successful experience in the government industry also helped Guangtong win more government users in the development process. At the same time, Guangtong also began to set foot in high-tech fields such as telecommunications and finance. With the deep technical foundation of Guangtong Kuanshi IT operation and maintenance scheme, we have kept forging ahead and won telecom and financial users.