Asset Management

PS'Soft IT Asset Management Next Generation (ITAM^NG) is a comprehensive, integrated asset-management solution. Aligned on ITIL® best practices, it helps you optimize the way you manage your hardware and software resources.

PS’Soft IT Asset Management Next Generation (ITAM^NG) is an industry leading solution, at the cutting edge of technology, developed as a result of our determination to lead the market and drive innovation within the IT Management market. This will enable you, as an IT executive, to be more effective managing your IT organization and aligning your priorities with the ever changing needs of the business.

Backed by over 17 years experience in IT Asset Management, PS'Soft offers a solution built on standard processes and best practices in asset life cycle management, delivering a swift return on investment and improving business and operational efficiency.

ITAM^NG is a flexible, configurable solution that enables you to align your specific needs with the types of assets being managed, (eg. hardware, software, mobile devices, applications, virtual environments, data centers etc), as well as the different types of management requirements.

Comprehensive, precise management of your assets

Built on a unique repository, the ITAM^NG solution helps your IT department cut costs and influence corporate decision making by managing the physical, financial and contractual aspects of your IT assets. From purchase to retirement, including inventory, asset management, licensing and contracts, it helps organizations manage the asset life cycle and anticipate decision making on application deployments, redeployments and other key projects

Efficient management of software license

In addition to managing hardware devices, PS'Soft provides efficient software license management. An integrated software library (Technopedia ^TM) – the only one of its kind in the market – makes software inventory and compliance monitoring simpler and more reliable. Technopedia ^TM lists thousands of software titles, so you can monitor the installed base and reconcile purchase data. The ITAM^NG solution ensures that the software licenses installed within your organization are fully compliant, effectively averting the legal risks of piracy and non-compliance. Learn more about Technopedia ^TM

Advanced CMDB asset management

PS'Soft offers a new generation of inventory solutions as a result of its merger with BDNA, an industry leading provider of agentless IT asset discovery solutions. PS’Soft Discovery powered by BDNA automatically collects full details of your network IT assets: hardware or software, whatever the environment - Windows, Unix, Linux, MacOs - including virtual environments. The information is collected in a matter of hours without affecting your servers, applications or staff, using low-impact, agentless technology. The information collected is enriched with contextual information from a catalog containing, among other things, the terms and conditions of warranty, the support end date, power consumption, etc.

Business process industrialization

Asset management relies on business process industrialization. A powerful, fully configurable workflow engine, (Business Process Manager), can be used to manage all asset life cycle management processes, including delivery, installation, redeployment, repairs and retirement. This approach ensures that the hardware and software management processes introduced are suited to the asset life cycle, and delivers measurable performance gains. The ITAM^NG solution provides a new, compelling user-oriented interface for business process automation, with simplified screens for carrying out everyday tasks, to-do lists, approvals, work orders, etc.

Integrated financial monitoring

The IT Purchasing Management option is used for financial management. It tracks purchase requests and handles stock control, orders, deliveries and allocations, budgeting and depreciation tracking. The Financial Asset Management option can be used to set up internal and external recharging functions based on services provided.

Management and control tools

The ITAM^NG comes with dynamic reports and dashboards including key performance indicators (KPIs). Based on PS'Soft IT Business Intelligence, the solution provides analysis and reports on asset management operations, along with specific dashboards and monitoring charts for each division, (corporate, financial, IT).

A centralized administration console

The ITAM^NG solution has a centralized administration console for easier deployment, updating and changes in management settings and rules. The console's many features include centralized or distributed administration, single or multi-site management, profile management, search and update settings, bulk updates.

Main features of ITAM^NG

• Advanced asset life cycle management, covering all technical, financial and contractual aspects.
• A comprehensive asset repository, (CMDB), including desktop computers, (hardware & software), data centers, mobile devices, network assets, virtual environments, cloud computing and green IT.
• Access via a dedicated, custom portal tailored to the organization's needs. The portal contains all the information and process functionalities required for efficient asset management in a single workspace.
• Monitor financial and contractual aspects – cost tracking, depreciation, purchase requests, procurement, stocks, budgets and recharging.
• A solution that is compatible and integrated with the market's main tools: Inventory and software distribution, system and network management, ERP, active directory, etc. The flexibility and compatibility of ITAM^NG is your guarantee for a sound, long-term investment.
• Tried and tested robustness, demonstrated by successful deployment in hundreds of medium and large enterprises, with installed bases of 5,000 to 200,000 devices and complex environments, (multi-site and multi-country).
• Great flexibility in defining asset life cycle management processes, in accordance with ITIL® recommendations.

Key Benefits

• Optimize Software Licenses - track software usages to avoid over-licensing, and reuse or harvest existing software licenses.
• Reduce inventory - manage your IT asset inventories by planning asset allocations, tracking procurement, receiving and deployment processes.
• Redeploy surplus assets - avoid the additional costs of maverick buying by leveraging surplus asset inventories in the fulfillment of requests.
• Avoid lease penalties - manage assets under lease by creating alerts, running vendor reports and managing the return of assets prior to end-of-lease deadlines.
• Improve Procurement Management - manage the procurement process for IT assets by automating purchase order process, enable volume purchasing decisions and reducing maverick buying.
• Manage warranty, service, procurement and maintenance contracts for efficient renewals and penalty avoidance.
• Manage reoccurring contract payments and allocate costs to supported assets or services.
• Eliminate continued payments on maintenance contracts for assets no longer in service or non-critical to the operation.
• Ensure lease or capital asset tax payments are not made on returned or retired assets.
• Apply consistent practices to monitor and track physical and logical changes via business process automation.

An Integrated Solution

The PS'Soft Asset Management Suite works with the PS'Soft Service Management Suite to enhance your Service Management processes with relevant asset and inventory data. The PS'Soft Asset Management suite works with PS'Soft License Compliance Management to provide a complete IT asset lifecycle solution.