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IT Exam: The ROI of Asset Management

When organizations look to drastically reduce IT costs, the last area they tend to examine is their asset base. Many organizations don't even have a good picture of what all of their assets are, or where they are. If you can't find it - you certainly can't optimize it.

The truth is that one of the highest yielding cost savings exercises comes from effective asset management. Organizations can reap as much as a 15% savings through effective management of hardware maintenance, and software license management.

Saving money through asset management doesn't require undertaking a massive hardware and software inventory that is 99.9% accurate (not that that is a bad thing to do). It does, however, require you to know what you need.

Are you ready? Take our True / False Quiz and find out.


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1. All of the hardware assets I pay depreciation for are being used in the environment today
  • True
  • False
  • Don't Know
2. I have fewer than 10% unused (unallocated) software licenses
  • True
  • False
  • Don't Know
3. Your managed assets, including all desktop devices, servers, mid-range, mainframe, etc., run at more than 75% capacity
  • True
  • False
  • Don't Know
4. The assets in place today support the growth plans for the next 12-18 months
  • True
  • False
  • Don't Know
5. The assets in place today support the growth plan for more than 18 months
  • True
  • False
  • Don't Know
6. I have a relational database that stores financial and configuration information about each asset
  • True
  • False
  • Don't Know
7. I have a relational database that stores financial and configuration information about each asset and is integrated into my change management database to automatically update changes made to an asset
  • True
  • False
  • Don't Know
8. All of your assets are managed by accounting
  • True
  • False
  • Don't Know
Shally Bansal Stanley is Senior Vice President & CTO Greenwich Technology Partners
sstanley@greenwichtech.com