Asset Management Solutions

Information Technology (IT) assets evolve and change rapidly. Computers are leased and purchased. Mobile workstations are added to fill expanding networks. Laptops move as business shifts. Sometimes assets change on planned cycles, sometimes they change on an ad hoc schedule. This can produce a volatile base of hardware, software, and mission-critical applications, but everything still needs to be properly managed. Security, upgrades, maintenance, and replacement programs depend on tracking IT assets.

Fulcrum asset management solutions effectively manage IT assets through their entire lifecycle. We offer complete asset management analysis and comprehensive reporting services. Our solutions are designed to match your business environment, staff, and enterprise objectives. We can help you:

• Simplify the process of managing IT assets, software licensing, and application usage
• Lower costs through identifying real technology needs
• Get the most efficient performance from your IT budget

Industry analysts estimate that potential savings of implementing an enterprise-wide asset management system can range from $300 to more than $2,000 per desktop in the first year alone. For an organization with 5,000 desktops, that totals $1.5 million to $10 million. With savings like these, businesses can quickly realize substantial returns on investment.

But the goals of IT asset management go far beyond reducing costs. It also aims at increasing efficiency and productivity in your organization. It can help you align your technology implementations with your strategic business objectives:

• Prepare your organization for migrations, accommodate technology changes and deploy new applications swiftly.
• Make your help desk more productive by supporting a standard set of applications, and knowing what's on each desktop without having to visit it.
• Make end-users more productive with the right set of applications and limiting or blocking access to time-wasting software.
• Prepare your organization for mergers and acquisitions.
• Ensure that your organization complies with software licenses, and avoids fines, embarrassment, and the disruption of forced compliance.
• Collect the information necessary for IT budgeting and planning.

Asset Management Services

Fulcrum uses a systematic approach to create successful asset management implementations or reorganizations. Starting from a comprehensive requirements analysis, we develop clearly defined and documented procedures. Then we train your staff to sustain the practice. Continually monitoring, testing and improving the process and procedures ensure stability in asset tracking and management.

Fulcrum asset management services include:

• A baseline assessment of your asset management opportunity
• Workflow design
• Process development from requisition to retirement
• Infrastructure design and planning
• Tool selection
• Deployment of asset management tools
• Ongoing inventory
• Software migrations
• Software license management

Fulcrum uses commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies and industry best-practice asset tools that scale to meet the needs of your enterprise. We feel that using the same asset tool in all case may not meet everyone's needs, so we maintain a range of tier-one vendors with leading-edge products.

The asset tools we have selected have an 80% common functionality thread between them. The remainder consists of the specific functionality associated with asset tracking and management information gathering, scalability, and design flexibility.

We match the tool and technology to your needs and goals. We consider the size of your organization, your planned growth, the possibility of unexpected mission changes, and your end-users. We analyze your business thoroughly to determine the best fit.