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Data Sheet: Endpoint Management

Altiris™ Asset Management Suite 7.0

Gain control of IT assets: Track, act, and automate

Overview

Overview

IT organizations are challenged with increasing complexity
with hardware, software, and their agreements with
vendors. To avoid potential risks, unreliable asset data, and
reduced end-user productivity, IT organizations are working
to take charge of managing IT assets. Increase your
negotiating capability and reduce liabilities with greater
visibility into vital data around your assets: key dates,
contracts, and usage patterns.
Altiris™ Asset Management Suite from Symantec maximizes
existing IT investments by actively eliminating unnecessary
costs, managing contracts, aligning service resources with
ITIL standards, and accurately measuring asset total cost of
ownership (TCO).

Asset management trends

Asset management trends

Business drivers for asset management include:

• Accurate budgeting

• Managing change through mergers, transfers and

reorganizations

• Compliance demands

• IT alignment with business

IT directors and managers are working to run IT as a
business. Key to accomplishing that goal is increasing the
accountability for tracking assets from procurement to
disposal to deliver the best value for the business. With an
automated asset management system you can confidently
determine the right balance between cost, performance,
and risk with IT assets.

Faced with the pressures to deliver the right service level, at
the right cost, with the best quality, better decisions are
made with accurate records.

Gain control of IT assets

Track

Track

—discover, import, and validate software against a

comprehensive software catalog

Act

Act

—harvest funds from overspent licenses, true up for

audits, and report costs throughout the asset lifecycle

Automate

Automate

—automate common asset procedures to actively

manage your assets

Gain Control of IT assets

Gain Control of IT assets

Disparate departments and processes are united through
the common repository, console, and process automation
capabilities. By actively managing the entire asset lifecycle,
Asset Management Suite helps organizations eliminate
unnecessary software and hardware costs, proactively
manage vendor contracts, and align resources to ensure IT
investments are optimized and business-aligned.
The consolidated approach in Asset Management Suite
significantly reduces implementation time and costs,
allowing your organization to realize a faster mean-time to
value and focus on value-add initiatives.

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Summary of Contents for ASSET MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0

Page 1: ...ility for tracking assets from procurement to disposal to deliver the best value for the business With an automated asset management system you can confidently determine the right balance between cost performance and risk with IT assets Faced with the pressures to deliver the right service level at the right cost with the best quality better decisions are made with accurate records Gain control of...

Page 2: ...ages hierarchical relationships of assets including assets to other configuration items users locations departments cost centers and associated contracts Resource association diagram Act Act With all IT assets organized Asset Management Suite allows asset managers to accomplish everyday tasks as well as prepare for future initiatives Every managed asset is actionable from the asset reports Right c...

Page 3: ...oftware catalog Expanded asset management Expanded asset management Manage asset data with greater efficiency Enhanced portal pages provide access to common asset management tasks from a single screen Efficiently control access to data reporting types cascading organizational groups to reflect your business and comprehensive resource association diagram views Populate the CMDB with expanded suppor...

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