Symantec ALTIRIS ASSET MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 Datasheet

Data Sheet: Endpoint Management
Altiris™ Asset Management Suite 7.0
Gain control of IT assets: Track, act, and automate
Overview Overview
IT organizations are challenged with increasing complexity
with hardware, software, and their agreements with
vendors. To avoid potential risks, unreliable asset data, and
reduced end-user productivity, IT organizations are working
to take charge of managing IT assets. Increase your
negotiating capability and reduce liabilities with greater
visibility into vital data around your assets: key dates,
contracts, and usage patterns.
Altiris™ Asset Management Suite from Symantec maximizes
existing IT investments by actively eliminating unnecessary
costs, managing contracts, aligning service resources with
ITIL standards, and accurately measuring asset total cost of
ownership (TCO).
Asset management trends Asset management trends
Business drivers for asset management include:
• Accurate budgeting
• Managing change through mergers, transfers and
reorganizations
• Compliance demands
• IT alignment with business
IT directors and managers are working to run IT as a
business. Key to accomplishing that goal is increasing the
accountability for tracking assets from procurement to
disposal to deliver the best value for the business. With an
automated asset management system you can confidently
determine the right balance between cost, performance,
and risk with IT assets.
Faced with the pressures to deliver the right service level, at
the right cost, with the best quality, better decisions are
made with accurate records.
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Gain control of IT assets
Track—discover, import, and validate software against a Track
comprehensive software catalog
Act—harvest funds from overspent licenses, true up for Act
audits, and report costs throughout the asset lifecycle
Automate—automate common asset procedures to actively Automate
manage your assets
Gain Control of IT assets Gain Control of IT assets
Disparate departments and processes are united through
the common repository, console, and process automation
capabilities. By actively managing the entire asset lifecycle,
Asset Management Suite helps organizations eliminate
unnecessary software and hardware costs, proactively
manage vendor contracts, and align resources to ensure IT
investments are optimized and business-aligned.
The consolidated approach in Asset Management Suite
significantly reduces implementation time and costs,
allowing your organization to realize a faster mean-time to
value and focus on value-add initiatives.