IT Asset Management, or ITAM if you prefer, is the lost link to the cloud. There, now we’ve said it, do you feel better?
Before we can decide whether this is true, we need to understand what ITAM really is of course.
Sometimes called EAM (Enterprise Asset Management), the practice of asset management is quite a broad term used to describe the process of auditing and subsequently overseeing the total number of IT assets inside a company.
Encompassing hardware, but predominantly focused (these days) on software, asset management allows IT managers to improve cost control, perform maintenance scheduling, manage upgrades and look downstream towards decommissioning and replacement.