This process is designed to ensure that procurement best practice is followed, and to minimise the theft and fraud that is all too common before assets are deployed into service.

This process is all about the risk management register.

This process is all about the benefits of refreshing the hardware on your IT estate.

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

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 Joiners, Movers and Leavers (JML) process should offer a means of aligning IT assets to their respective owner

This process will provide you with a lifebelt to ensure software audits are as painless as possible for you AND your organisation.