Asset and inventory management, CMDB aligned to ITIL

Asset and inventory management is the foundation for successful configuration management. Its purpose is to manage the company's inventory and asset data in an ITIL-compliant CMDB. All resources that are relevant for a company have to be automatically discovered and controlled throughout their entire lifecycle (IT portfolio management). But this is not enough for companies to effectively manage the existing extensive IT infrastructure: systems are constantly growing in size and complexity, which in turn requires expensive equipment, purchases and software upgrades. Moreover, licensing requirements regarding the use of software are becoming increasingly confusing. Consequently, this increases the demands for reliably managing IT assets and inventories.

Software Asset Management

Managing a company's software licenses is another important aspect of a comprehensive approach to asset and inventory management. Software inventory management deals with managing existing licenses and tracking the software packages actually licensed. It verifies whether the company needs to purchase additional licenses and determines the existence of underutilized licenses.

IT Portfolio Management

When it comes to the life cycle of a company's IT assets, it is of utmost importance to know what exactly is in the portfolio. This overview serves as a basis for planning the replacement or introduction of IT assets. This helps companies get more precise answers to recurring questions about the planning, introduction, retirement and maintenance of their hardware and software, which in turn is the key to effective IT portfolio management.

Flexible and Open

Medium and large companies are often faced with the problem of integrating large volumes of data from existing systems. This, however, requires integration with different inventory tools. Aranda CMDB provides a central database for all information that is relevant to a company's IT operations and uses various modules to carefully analyze available asset and inventory information. Moreover, the automatic discovery of IT assets provides detailed results for the purpose of software asset and portfolio management. The Configuration Management Database CMDBITIL Compatible by PinkElephant for 12 processes and manages the Configuration Management process, thanks to the integration with Aranda Service Desk, is ITIL Compatible certified. Find more information about Aranda CMDB here and request a demo. . source.