How many managers do not face the following questions about IT Asset control?
- How many PCs does the company have?
- What is the number of notebooks?
- Do we have the hardware and software requirements to implement a new system?
The truth is that today, many companies have difficulty answering such questions, because the big challenge we are talking about here is the efficient management of IT assets. Read on to better understand in the following text.
IT Asset Control and ABNT
An updated inventory of all company assets is required for compliance with tax and accounting standards, such as ABNT NBR ISO/IEC 17799, 2005 item 7.1.1 and Sarbanes Oxley for foreign capital companies.
As a result, asset inventory must be carried out periodically, not a very simple task considering the large volume of assets a company may contain.
IT assets are the heart of a large part of companies. Maximizing these critical investments requires a robust and effective IT Asset Management (ITAM) system. RFID enables Continuous Real-Time IT Asset Management, creating a new standard in operational efficiency in ITAM processes, ensuring the security and periodic maintenance of IT Assets, as well as compliance with required regulations.
RFID can solve a large part of the IT Asset surveying problems by allowing real-time monitoring from the moment it enters the company until the moment it is discarded.
Unlike the barcode, RFID does not require unit reading, it can read multiple tags simultaneously and automatically within the readers’ reading zone and without requiring human intervention.
Without a doubt, Management and IT Asset Control is a major challenge for most companies and becomes even more difficult when this work is performed manually and is completely sensitive to human error.
With the availability of technologies like RFID, the control of IT asset management becomes more reliable and undoubtedly more precise, all in less time and effort.
Main Indicators of IT Asset Control
- More than 50% of companies use intensive manual labor and highly error-prone processes to conduct inventories and monitor their IT assets (Aberdeen Group)
- 39% of information leaks originate from the loss or theft of IT assets (Verizon Business Risk)
- 20% of software license and equipment maintenance spending goes to equipment that is no longer in use (Gartner Research)
IT Asset Management (ITAM)
It is the set of business practices that unite financial, contractual, and inventory functions to support lifecycle management and strategic decision-making for the IT environment. Assets include all elements of software and hardware found in the business environment.
Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID)
An automatic identification method using radio signals, remotely retrieving and storing data through devices called RFID tags.
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