Asset Life Cycle Management
Provance IT Asset Management for Microsoft System Center enables you to proactively plan and effectively manage the costs associated with your IT assets and the services they support. Provance IT Asset Management gives you the insight into both active and inactive assets that you’ll need to support effective financial analysis, budgeting and operational planning. With visibility and control of your assets throughout the entire life cycle – from procurement to decommissioning – you’ll optimize asset use, reduce costs and guarantee your enterprise gets full value from your investments in technology.
Centralized Asset Tracking
Regardless of how widely your assets are dispersed – whether throughout the building, around the city, across the country or spanning the globe – Provance IT Asset Management tracks and maintains comprehensive details about all your assets in a single repository. You’ll minimize rollout and support costs and maximize accuracy by leveraging the same system integrations and administration for all your sites. Provance IT Asset Management provides a common, complete and concurrent view shared by all your stakeholders. With everyone on the same page, you’ll synchronize and consolidate decision making across your enterprise to minimize surplus inventory, avoid unnecessary purchases and take full advantage of economies of scale. Provance IT Asset Management gives you centralized management of all assets – throughout the complete lifecycle and across the entire organization – to universally optimize asset use and minimize costs.
Move/Add/Change (MAC) Management
Provance IT Asset Management lets you quickly and accurately process asset moves, adds and changes that would otherwise require significant effort and the use of several unrelated systems. Workflow automation ensures adherence to your business rules and lets you maintain an auditable history to increase accuracy. Elimination of manual effort further increases speed and accuracy, and integration with your procurement system and service desk ensures your information is always complete and up to date. Provance IT Asset Management reduces the time and effort of reconciling inventories and tracking and auditing MAC histories, allowing you to stay on top of the location and status of all of your assets, optimize asset use and improve productivity.
Surplus and Disposal Management
The need to manage an IT asset doesn’t end when it’s no longer in active use. Management of inactive surplus inventory and proper disposal of assets at the end of their useful life is critical for cost recovery, security, and to meet regulatory and financial requirements. Provance IT Asset Management lets you reallocate or resell surplus assets, recover software licenses and terminate maintenance, support and insurance contracts on disposed assets to maximize cost recovery. Asset history tracking ensures you meet regulatory auditing requirements and maintain information important for financial reporting and tax purposes. Provance IT Asset Management also lets you identify security treatments for disposed assets to maintain integrity and safety. With Provance IT Asset Management you’ll greatly reduce the effort, risk and costs associated with surplus and disposed assets.
Repair Management
When taken out of active status and physically removed from your premises for repair by a third party beyond your control, assets become extremely difficult to track and manage. Provance IT Asset Management extends your view of the IT environment to include assets on repair. Provance IT Asset Management lets you easily identify assets currently on repair and provides you with complete visibility into the details – the problem, the vendor making the repairs, the associated service desk ticket, when the asset is due for return, the resolution, the cost, and the actual return to service date. The history of asset failure and repair maintained in the Provance IT Asset Management solution lets you better plan and negotiate future purchasing and maintenance contracts. An optional link allows your service desk to monitor repair progress, and you can set up reminders to ensure assets are returned from repair on time. With Provance IT Asset Management, you’ll eliminate costs due to lost productivity and unnecessary down time for repairs.
Detailed Hardware/Software Asset Tracking
Provance IT Asset Management works with both your IT and business systems to bring together isolated silos of operational and financial information into a unified actionable view. Integration with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft SMS, BDNA Insight and other discovery solutions lets you easily import and associate detailed hardware and software asset data with business data from your ERP, finance, procurement, invoicing and human resource systems. Provance IT Asset Management brings together and reconciles asset detail from multiple sources – auto discovery solutions, business systems, manual entry, XML or flat files, spreadsheets and databases – and provides you with a single, consolidated source of data for analysis and reporting. Integration lets you expose this unified asset detail directly within your third party service desk to support and improve incident, problem, change and configuration management.
Asset Cost Tracking
Get the full picture when it comes to the true lifecycle costs of an asset. By tracking costs related to purchases, repairs, and support against individual assets or maintenance contracts, Provance IT Asset Management lets you to take more cost effective decisions about asset use, negotiate more favorable terms with vendors and improve budget management and forecasting.