Asset Management: Climbing the Asset Maturity Curve

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Climbing the Asset Maturity Curve Asset Management

9-10 September 2013 Terri Hart-Sears

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Implementation Gap: Exponential Effect

Customers, advisors, providers agree that accurate, objective data is critical to building trust

Initial asset baselines are frequently between 15-20% inaccurate, and without remediation, can fuel a host of downstream complications 1. Inaccurate billing 2. Additional outages 3. Increased time and cost of

recovery 4. Unnecessary investment in

hardware and software

Inaccurate asset information can build a lack of trust increasing the gap between the client and the supplier How can we address this "The 15% Problem"

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The Primary Challenges and Inherent Risks to the Global Enterprise

The Business Challenge: Managing Asset Information

Navigating risk complexity requires the understanding the boundaries of technology and asset management (BYOD)

Navigating regulatory complexity requires the need to know where your assets and information resides

Pursuing growth needs to manage the Q in the P*Q equation to control costs

Driving global information reporting must address the quality of information to manage the IT Estate and outsourcing relationships

Fines accessed for data loss Reputation impacted by compromised

environment

Increased demand drives increased volumes and costs

Financial penalties with audits Unanticipated increased volumes Increased outage time (missing information)

Only 16.1% are satisfied with the amount and quality of information to manage the outsourcing relationship (According to IAOP)

Building trust and transparency to address governance

Lost value of contracts, mergers, and acquisitions and increased human capital


Asset Management

Set of business practices that join financial, contractual and inventory functions to support life cycle management and strategic decision making for the IT environment.

Asset Management

Architecture, Policies and Standards

Reporting Hardware

Hardware Inventory Acquisition

Spares

Disposal

Software

Software Inventory Acquisition

Catalog Mgmt.

Contract Portfolio

Contract Compliance

Inventory. Asset Life

Cycle Software

Mgmt.

Gain control of the inventory Increase accountability to ensure compliance Enhance performance of assets and the life cycle

management Improve Availability Time of the

Business/Applications/Processes

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IT Asset Maturity Model: Where are you?

An IT asset maturity model can help organizations assess their current state. If you want to move forward, you need to understand where your organization fits on the IT asset maturity curve. Simultaneous progress on both axes will improve accuracy and trust in the data.

Trusted

Reports support

key decisions

5

Accurate

Accurately reflect the

estate Automated compliance reporting

4

3

Current All CIs and

contracts are accounted

for

2

Updated Changes are

reflected

1

Implemented Asset tool

0

Operating model without process = pause

Tools without process = insecurity

Mat

urity

Mod

el

Asset Accuracy

Reconciled

From multiple sources Limited compliance Reporting


► Assessment is based on Operating, Asset Recording, License Management, Asset Cost, and Life Cycle Factors

Asset Maturity Assessment Summary

Updated Current Reconciled Accurate Trusted

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

OPS Operating Factors 3.8 30%

ASR Asset Recording Factors 2.9 20%

LIC Licence Management Factors 4.3 20%

ASC Asset Cost Factors 2.0 20%

LIF Life Cycle Factors 4.9 10%

3.5 100%

Key Observations12

Filter Weighting

Filter ValuesAsset Maturity Assessment

Maturity Score

Enter specific observations / facts


Asset Recording

Operating

Maturity Assessment Factors

► How often does the organization reconcile usage to assets ► What percentage of retired hardware is tracked to enable redeployment of

software ► What percentage of purchased are made through a centralized or

controlled procurement process

► All assets in a asset register aligned with change and configuration management

► Organization identifies legal, regulatory or contractual requirements ► Organization performs an required audit of assets

License Management

► Maintains a register of all software licenses and associated agreement ► Conducts an audit to identify instances of installed software ► On a regular basis considers whether better terms obtained by upgrades or

changes in licensing


Life cycle

Asset Cost

Maturity Assessment Factors (continued)

► Review the overall asset base considering whether it is aligned with business requirements

► Assesses maintenance costs ► Review the overall base to identify opportunities for standardization,

sourcing and other strategies to lower procurement and support costs

► Procure assets based on approved requests in accordance with procurement policies

► Approve payments according to agreed contract conditions ► Deploy assets following standard life cycle


Build better negotiating power

Pay only for the IT assets and services you use

Top 5 benefits of climbing the IT asset maturity curve

► Be sure that you are not only getting what you pay for but that you are not paying for what you are not getting. Without a good handle on your assets, you may end up managing too many assets or paying for “platinum” level support that is not used outside business hours.

► Knowing what assets are active will allow for better contracts. How do you know you have the right asset counts? What is the cost of being wrong? Missing discounts or terms with the wrong asset information? Unanswered questions about assets can drive up costs.

Get right with operational compliance

► Today’s environment is very complex; it takes multiple data sources to reconcile information. Make sure you can answer these questions: Have we run all the back-ups? Are the assets up to date on virus protection?

Navigate risk and regulatory compliance

► The financial loss exposure from these types of risks can include penalties for lost data as well as the cost of re-creating information. The proliferation of mobile devices and remote service points only increases this risk. Better asset management will provide cost savings from improved compliance and ensure assets are mapped to security parameters.

Enact ITAM process discipline

► ITAM is closely linked to ITIL processes and enables improvements in four critical service management processes: change management, asset management, service performance and service level management, add in IT governance. AM Process disipline not only reduces the time spent in reconciling diverse reports; it also optimizes value by reducing unapproved changes, cycle time and downtime.

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Proper IT asset management (ITAM) is more than just good business; it results in hard dollar savings that drop to the bottom line. To conduct proper ITAM, an organization needs an enterprise-wide view of its asset estate, including identity, usage, spend and compliance.

AM Solutions


Finding the right resources to help

1. Clients and Suppliers often have staff/cost constraints to provide asset oversight and reporting

Both need to focus on the higher level activities.

2. Processes not linked for all parts of the organization Standard processes are essential to effectively govern complex environments.

3. Integration of the Tools / Technology is needed to support the governance of the IT asset estate

Need to manage asset utilization and services and prioritize planning initiatives

4. Time to successfully accomplish all of the above is at a premium

Tools can be designed and ready to identify prioritized changes needed


► We create new value from existing sources of information that will: ► Reduce costs

► Manage change

► Minimize Risk

Driving toward Asset Intelligence that is useful for IT Decisions

Leverage accurate IT estate information to make confident, data-driven decisions that support IT transformation through a modest, turn-key model

CIO’s need the measurements and controls to achieve operational and financial transparency with a true end-to-end view of all HW/SW assets leveraging analytics, process discipline and data quality intelligence

Consolidate a view of all IT asset data throughout the organization into one place

Achieve improved data quality/integrity using a fine tuned sophisticated, multi-source reconciliation process

Leverage existing databases, tools & agents without deploying additional software

Build discipline processes to ensure gaps and opportunities are addressed

Deliver both out-of-the box analytics and customized reporting focused on your needs

Realize rapid Time-to-Value with actionable results


Built for an imperfect data environment; Developing trust thru transparency by integrating all the Asset information into a single source of truth

Consumption Management offers IT Asset Intelligence

A ISG integrates technology and proven processes to address gaps and opportunities found through the reconciliation

Proven Processes Actionable Analytics and Reporting

Load diverse and separate sources of data about IT assets for reconciliation

Tool Administrator

Build dashboards/reports; drive insight and corrections for: Data accuracy Delivery of asset services Volume Validation

Provide recommendations to reduce costs, mitigate risk and

Governance / ITSM process improvements

Intelligent Technology


Asset Management delivers value

► Reduce IT costs

► Manage Demand

► Sound Business decision

► Mitigate Non Compliance Penalties

► Focus on Operations

► Eliminate Risk

Better

Bottom line

Mitigate Risk

Manage Change

► Deliver a complete IT estate profile

► Focus on the business

► Eliminate surplus assets

Wrap-up

Proper IT asset management (ITAM) is more than just good business; it results in hard dollar savings that drop to the bottom line. To conduct proper ITAM, an organization needs an enterprise-wide view of its asset estate, including identity, usage, spend and compliance.

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Asset Management: Climbing the Asset Maturity Curve

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