ITAM

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ITAM

• Exposing your assets to external scrutiny!
• Presentation by
• John ODonoghue
• University of Wolverhampton

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Agenda

• The Business School and its Asset environment
• Asset Management
• The Business School is about.
• Procedures
• Roles and resources
• LAN Licenser
• External Scrutiny

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Organisational investment

• IT systems realise their full business potential
  only when investment is made in people,
  procedures and the organisation, in parallel with
  the investment in technology

Michael SchrageFellow, Merrill Lynch Forum for
Innovation
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The Business School

• 230 Staff PCs
• 2 Sites
• Central purchasing
• Central supplier(s)
• Outsourced support

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The Business School Objectives

• How can I get greater return from the assets of
  my organisation?
• what can be achieved?
• how can we get started?
• how can we maintain our position once agreed?

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Not just the latest IT OR IS fad
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Why manage assets?

• The time employees use computers
• License fees
• Updating software
• Software support.
• System administration.

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The Business School is about

• monitoring hardware use
• monitoring software use
• effective use of resources
• efficient use of technology
• Informed response to
• Server
• Desktop

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Business School Asset Management is about

• asset tracking
• resource tracking
• software metering
• BUT.

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Business School Asset Management is about

• identify how and where?
• the ongoing costs of operation
• provide a framework

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Business School Procedures

• Network access

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Business School Procedures

• Software/ Hardware purchase

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• Authorised DoS
• Owner Network Manager
• Status DRAFT
• Revision 1
• Date 26 October 1998
• Page 1 of 2
• Ref WBS.W032
• WOLVERHAMPTON BUSINESS SCHOOL
• WORK INSTRUCTION
• Title Software Monitoring
• 1. PURPOSE
• 1.1 To define the procedure for monitoring the
  use and installation of software.
• 2. SCOPE
• 2.1 All WBS staff.
• 3. REFERENCES
• 3.1 None
• 4. ASSOCIATED FORMS

Business School Procedures

• Software monitoring

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Roles and Resources

• The School
• The Learning Centre
• Information Technology Services
• Suppliers!!!

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LAN Licenser

• Computer inactivity
• Identification of Product Suite
• Identify additional software
• Whos Who linked to Hardware Audit

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The Benefits of Software Metering
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Many large organizations have no idea what
software licenses they have, where they are being
used, how effectively this asset is being managed
and whether or not they are in compliance with
their software license agreements
Take Control of PC Assets, Information Week,
September 4, 1995.
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External Scrutiny

• Visit
• Audit
• Questionnaire
• Reflection
• Review

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External Scrutiny

• Issues
• Problems
• Concerns

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Thank you