Consultancy services
IT Asset Governance
“The technology delivers the ideal information repository that gives access at any given time to the status of our entire IT estate. We are now positioned to continue to drive down the total cost of IT provision.”
Warwick Turnbull, Head of Information Technology, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
iTAG risk management solutions can help you solve the problems associated with managing your IT Asset Estate. Including opportunities for cost reduction through centralised control and automation, promotion of robust practices that demonstrates compliance and the application of good governance.
iTAG Hardware Physical Audit and Tagging
- What IT Assets exist in your organisation? Where are they, and who, if anyone, is using them?
- Do you have the tools and the process to perform an inventory?
- How can you be sure that the data you’re collecting is consistent and accurate?
iTAG Hardware and Software Audit
- Who is using what software in your organisation? Is any of it unknown or dangerous?
- On which computers is it loaded, and at what version?
- Who owns the software and is it legitimately licensed? Can this be proven?
iTAG Closed Loop IT Asset Management
- Can your organisation operate a centralised point of control for the procurement and distribution of IT Assets?
- How will this be monitored and enforced?
- Do you have an accurate and up to date source of IT Assets information?
Key Benefits
iTAG Hardware Physical Audit & Tagging
- A superior mechanism for collecting physical inventory information and asset tagging that is much easier to operate than a conventional manual process and typically more accurate
- Provides a method of identifying Asset trends for input to Service Desk Systems and adds value to initial audit activities, whether for due diligence or transition activities for outsourcers
- Pre-defined templated output (Reports and Data Exports) designed to rapidly identify issues regarding the IT Estate location and distribution
iTAG Hardware & Software Audit
- Quickly and discreetly identifies areas of potential exposure
- Provides concise ratification of current IT Assets
- Simplifies review of commercial software deployed and any associated risk
- Identifies personal software installed by Individuals and unauthorised Software installs
- Pre-defined templated output (Reports and Data Exports) designed to quickly highlight anomalies in the IT Estate
iTAG Closed Loop IT Asset Management
- Provides transparency of entire IT Assets within the organisation
- Delivers full lifecycle management of IT Assets
- Enables and helps to enforce centralised control
- Promotes cost savings via re-use and recycling
- Demonstrates compliance and progression towards ISO 19770-01
- Identifies and assists in mitigating risk
Features
iTAG Hardware Physical Audit & Tagging
- Tools and a process to simplify and validate the collection of physical inventory details and the assignment of Asset Tags
- Optional support for bar codes
- Automated validation and import of physical inventory into a structured CMDB
- On demand generation of a selection of standard reports in quality Adobe PDF format
- On demand standard exports of data in universal CSV and XML formats
- Can be used in conjunction with iTAG Hardware and Software Audit Solution to definitively populate a CMDB, the information from both sources is intelligently merged and overlaid
iTAG Hardware & Software Audit
- Automated and ad-hoc discovery of Hardware, Software and Users
- Automated validation and import of discovery output into a structured CMDB
- Automated classification of discovered software into preset reporting categories
- Automatic assignment of physical location for discovered hardware based on network addresses
- A facility to apply a consistent variation of Vendor Name across multiple hardware assets to improve reporting
- On demand generation of a selection of standard reports in quality Adobe PDF format
- On demand standard exports of data in universal CSV and XML formats
- Can be used in conjunction with iTAG Hardware Physical Audit and Tagging Solution to definitively populate a CMDB, the information from both sources is intelligently merged and overlaid
iTAG Closed Loop IT Asset Management
- Ongoing maintenance, upkeep and control of a CMDB
- Workflow support for centralised control and distribution of IT Assets
- Support for perpetual discovery tool input
- Full Audit Trials of all activity
- Scheduling facility for automated generation of reports and data imports and exports
- On demand generation of a selection of standard reports in quality Adobe PDF format
- On demand standard exports of data in universal CSV and XML formats
- Fully interactive IT Assets Enquiry
- Integration with iTAG Discovery and Survey Tools
- Integration to collect user information from MS Windows Active Directory
