How to improve asset management

How to improve asset management

Universities and colleges need to know where all their IT assets are, who is using them and what software runs on them. Not knowing increases support and maintenance costs.

Can you say exactly which professors and staff have laptops? Do you know where all your PCs are and what software is installed on them? How long does it take you to do a complete inventory? The harder it is to answer these questions, the more important it is to review your asset management strategy.

Begin with purchasing

HP Direct Services provides a single point of contact for the purchasing process so that you can ensure that new systems are logged efficiently. Using HP’s Business to Business portal you can manage the selection and purchasing process to reduce paperwork and make sure that systems are consistent from the beginning. Its built-in reporting tools give you better visibility of IT purchasing across the campus.

HP Financial Services

HP Financial Services makes it easy and economical for colleges and universities to deploy the latest technology. We offer financial solutions that help you manage to the lowest total cost of ownership – from planning and acquiring technology all the way to replacing and retiring it. And we help you manage the risk of dealing with older or surplus IT equipment.

Personalised deployment

HP can simplify large-scale deployments in universities and colleges by configuring systems in our facilities before they reach you. For example, we can install your software image and add an asset tag to each system. Combined with Intel® vPro™ technology, you can put inventory information into permanent memory on each system. Not only is this cost-effective but it also ensures that all your systems are properly tagged from the beginning.

Inventory

Altiris Inventory Solutions for clients makes it easy to identify and manage heterogeneous devices across the whole campus. Added to this, Intel® vPro™ technology (available on select HP PCs) will let you inventory networked PCs even if they are switched off. This dramatically increases the speed and accuracy of hardware inventories.

Single-sourcing

Asset management in universities and colleges becomes easier when you turn to a single source for all your PCs. You carry one pool of spare parts, train technicians on a single set of hardware, create one software image, deal with one vendor and one technical support team. The volume and variety of spare parts fall.