IT asset management is not just an IT issue, it’s a Business Issue

Translating IT Asset Management into Business Service Value

The impact that the IT infrastructure has in keeping the core business going is as vital as people or money or even electricity. But because IT asset data is dispersed in almost every phase of the enterprise, most companies have only been able to account for IT in broad strokes and with little accuracy, and that can seriously affect critical business decisions.


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Analyst Spotlight


Yefim Natis,
Vice President & Distinguished Analyst
Gartner Research

Mr. Natis' research focuses on enterprise software infrastructure, including such technologies as application servers, application platform suites, integration middleware and TP Monitors. Mr. Natis also researches the fundamental software architectures, including event-driven architecture, service-oriented architecture and Web services, COM/COM+, .NET, J2EE and CORBA.

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