This process is designed to ensure that procurement best practice is followed, and to minimise the theft and fraud that is all too common before assets are deployed into service.

This process is all about accurate inventory data to be used to match the entitlement data for use in the license pool management process.

This process is about equipment that is serviceable but not actually in use, and it is important that these items are identified so they can be reused where possible.

This process is all about how a pool of loan equipment can be a useful way to get more value from older equipment.

Given the information security implications of the loss or theft of equipment containing sensitive personal or commercial information, this process is one of the most important hardware asset management processes.  

This process will provide you with a lifebelt to ensure software audits are as painless as possible for you AND your organisation.

This process ensures that equipment is deployed efficiently and in line with organisational service management policies and processes.

A key element of this process is the development of exception reports that allow equivalent data-sets to be compared to identify discrepancies between the reports.