Archive for November, 2009

Enterprise it Asset Management – Managing Your Company’s it Assets

Monday, November 30th, 2009

By effectively managing the life cycle of an organization’s IT assets, the IT manager has significant influence to improve an organization’s overall performance, reduce costs, improve effectiveness, and improve and demonstrate the IT department’s ROI. Managing an Enterprise’s IT assets is essential for an organization’s competitiveness today. Deploying an IT Asset Management system will help avoid failures and quickly identify wasted IT resources and other inefficiencies.

Corporations, small business, government agencies or educational institutions, all require a comprehensive solution for managing computer and software assets, controlling expenses, and automating license compliance. Enterprises require an end-to-end solution that is capable of:

Online IT management software such as SAManage allows you to make sure that your organization has the ability to manage their IT assets throughout their lifecycle, and helps you better manage your enterprise IT assets.

How Software Asset Management Can Help You Save Money

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Simply put, Software Asset Management is a business process that can help you reduce your licensing costs and optimize your software assets. The business benefits of Software Asset Management are: Reduce software licensing costs – only purchase/renew licenses for software that is used. Track all your license rights, such as upgrade, downgrade and transfer rights to optimize the way you account for and use your software assets. Reduce help desk costs – on average, 50% of the time spend troubleshooting computer issues is spent on obtaining the computer configuration Minimize unauthorized software usage, security risks – SAM empowers you to use the right software for you. Ensuring that your employees are using only authorized software helps increase productivity and avoid security risks. Reduce business and legal risk due to not meeting regulatory requirements, or not complying with software vendor license agreements. Better negotiation capabilities with your software vendors – knowing exactly what you have and what you need, as well as the number of licenses you need and your current license rights puts you in control in your next license negotiation. Software Asset Management can help you reduce your overall software licensing costs by only purchasing software that you use and need, organize your licensing assets and keep track of your licenses agreements, terms and renewal dates. It is a process that helps you know which software is installed and used across your enterprise, and minimize unauthorized software usage. You can use it to better manage your software assets from a business perspective, reduce the cost of software licensing and improves your software asset utilization.

Where Can I Find Information On How Many Asset Management Companies Are There In The Philippines?

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

could anyone help me find information on how many asset management companies are there in the Philippines?

Hardware Asset Management – Managing Your Computer Inventory

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

To better manage your IT asset you need a tool that gives you instant IT Visibility — the detailed configuration you need of ALL of your computer assets. You should be able to easily view the updated configuration and physical location of each computer, server or laptop you have on your network. Tag each asset and assign it to users and technical owners. These hardware hardware properties includes CPU, BIOS, disks, sound cards and many others, and know exactly which software titles are installed and used on each of your computers.

When selecting an hardware asset management tool you should seek a tool that helps you track the hardware across your network, allowing you to know everything that happens on your network, with your computer assets and allowing you to easily maintain and access a full history of changes.

Corporations, small business, government agencies or educational institution, all require a comprehensive solution for managing software and hardware assets, controlling expenses, and automating license compliance. These are the key areas that you need to focus on when selecting a solution for your organization:

Implementing an hardware asset management system will help you gain better visibility into your hardware assets and better control your IT infrastructure resulting with reduced IT costs.

The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Product Description
One of the main concerns for digital photographers today is asset management: how to file, find, protect, and re-use their photos. The best solutions can be found in The DAM Book, our bestselling guide to managing digital images efficiently and effectively.

Anyone who shoots, scans, or stores digital photographs is practicing digital asset management (DAM), but few people do it in a way that makes sense. In this second edition, photographer Peter Krogh — … More >>

The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers

Jasandra Nyker, PCG Asset Management

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009


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What Exactly Is Global Asset Management?

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Please someone can give me a clear and concise information on the global wealth management and in the same way, if anyone knows all the facts about Legg Mason, LLC, will be appreciated.

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009


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How it Asset Management Can Save You Money

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Proper management of IT resources can help you save money and reduce overall costs. According IAITAM, proactive management of IT assets can reduce IT costs by up to 25%. Knowing that computers and software used across the enterprise, and matching inventory information against your financial information and contracts can be made better decisions and get the most out of your IT budget. IT Asset Management offers the following advantages: 1. Gain control of its assets, we know that the existing business network, configuration and changes in these assets. A good asset management system that allow you to easily analyze the information to make decisions. 2. Implement procedures that will save a good asset management system which lets you create and implement policies and procedures that will save you money. You can implement policies for the use of software, hardware configurations, standards, processes, the demand for goods and other processes that would help you get more value from their assets. 3. Make better decisions to organize the inventory of IT resources and alignment with your financial information and contracts can be better choices. For example, you can prepare better for the renewal of the contract to know what really use and need to renew, that the terms negotiated in the previous contract, or that computers are part of a lease that is about hardware expire. 4. Reduce help desk and support costs by providing support personnel with detailed configuration tasks that will help provide a more rapid problem resolution and reduce support costs. 5. Identify the risks of IT resources – Analysis of IT resources to identify potential hazards, such as security patches or anti-virus inappropriate / anti-spyware. 6. The regulatory compliance and software licensing. For more information on the management of IT assets to small business owners, and how to start it has become easier with the letter of Asset Management, visit www SAManage. SAManage. com today and register for a free 30 day trial of our service.