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Pocket CIO – The Guide to Successful IT Asset Management

You're reading from   Pocket CIO – The Guide to Successful IT Asset Management Get to grips with the fundamentals of IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, and Software License Compliance Audits with this guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783001002
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Phara McLachlan Phara McLachlan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. ITAM – It's Not Just IT's Problem or Function 2. ITAM Strategy and Plan FREE CHAPTER 3. The New Risk Management 4. What is SAM? 5. Understanding and Surviving Software License Compliance Audits 6. ITAM Tools – What Should You Look For? 7. Increasing ITAM Program and Project Success Rates using Change Management 8. Now What?

ITAM fundamentals


Managing the total cost of ownership (TCO) while ensuring your organization's software and hardware are properly inventoried, updated and serviced. Maintaining a good balance of resources and control between centrally managed and network-distributed systems. Deciding how many of your information systems and how much of your systems management to outsource, if any. Ensuring the security of all your information, including everything transmitted via mobile devices. Choosing among proprietary, compatible, and open source software options to find the right balance of resource and control between centrally-managed and network-distributed systems.

These are just a few of the issues and challenges facing the CIOs and senior IT executives charged with IT management responsibilities. The proliferation of choices doesn't make the task any easier.

When developing any management process that works, there are certain principles and best practices that make up an effective ITAM strategy...

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