This process ensures that equipment is deployed efficiently and in line with organisational service management policies and processes.

This process is the “north star” of good asset management towards which the entire organisation is heading

This process asks you to implement effective information security processes, and as such, we have aligned it to ISO27000 – the international standard for information security.

This process is about equipment that is serviceable but not actually in use, and it is important that these items are identified so they can be reused where possible.

This process is all about accurate inventory data to be used to match the entitlement data for use in the license pool management process.

This process is all about building a SAM awareness and communication plan!

Given the information security implications of the loss or theft of equipment containing sensitive personal or commercial information, this process is one of the most important hardware asset management processes.  

A key element of this process is the development of exception reports that allow equivalent data-sets to be compared to identify discrepancies between the reports.