USU IT Asset Data Platform
Gartner says more than 71% of organizations cite data quality concerns impacting their effectiveness, especially with their CMDBs: Four out of ten business initiatives fail due to poor or incomplete data.
One big reason is because organizations struggle to get their IT asset data under one roof and get useful insights from it.
You may collect but not aggregate, aggregate but not normalize, normalize but not enrich.
USU IT Asset Data Platform allows you to do everything - in one place.
Top benefits of USU IT Asset Data Platform
100% IT Visibility
Fully automated collection and aggregation of data from hundreds of sources results in a high-quality data foundation for IT Asset Management.
100% CMDB Enrichment
Normalization of hardware and software inventory provides a single source of truth for effective IT Service Management initiatives.
100% Holistic View
Understanding of the IT estate enables multiple stakeholders to make a range of operational, tactical, and strategic decisions.
Feed your asset library with trustworthy data
USU IT Asset Data Platform is an open, customizable and configurable technical framework that can discover a wide range of IT assets and, in turn, deliver trustworthy data.
No matter whether you use physical or virtual hardware, on-prem software or Cloud-based services. USU IT Asset Data Platform discovers any of them, processes the data properly, and makes sure you know what is out there.
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CMDB challenges affect success of key initiatives
Common data quality or completeness issues can affect the success of your ITSM, ITAM, and ITOM processes, strategy, or organizational goals:
Missing Assets
are most likely not managed and therefore are a risk in your environment.
Duplicated Assets
can lead to unnecessary spend, confuse service support, make change and incident management difficult.
Orphaned Assets
can lead change management to outages if there is no service / dependency mapping.
Incomplete Assets
can prevent organizations from gaining deeper insights into the environment.
Invalid Assets
can limit visibility of both financial and incident impact and though complicate to link issues together.
Unknown Assets
will become a huge issue when it's time to replace equipment or software.
Get rid of underperforming CMDBs
Get more from your investments by delivering complete, consolidated, normalized quality enterprise asset data, regardless of location of the assets, directly into your data repository.
USU IT Asset Data Platform includes the following key technologies
USU Discovery Data Hub to
- Collect data from hundreds of data sources such as SCCM, Active Directory, vCenter, and ServiceNow Discovery
- De-duplicate and federate hardware devices
- Consolidate key hardware attributes from the most authoritative source
- Help to enable Asset Management, Vulnerability Monitoring and other key IT initiatives
USU Technology Catalog to
- Normalize, categorize, and enrich software and hardware inventory
- Provide insights into End-of-Life / End-of-Support dates for software
- Enable Environment Simplification, Application Rationalization, and other key IT initiatives
- Provide insights that are not available from traditional device management tools
- Manage IT portfolio and support investment decisions
Meet multi-stakeholder demand within your organization
USU IT Asset Data Platform goes beyond siloed operational approaches to using data to manage and improve the understanding of an IT estate. Our integrated approach provides a detailed and holistic view which enables multiple stakeholders to make a range of operational, tactical, and strategic decisions.
- See and control all your software in a single “source of truth”
- Respond to vendor audits with full Knowledge of your on-prem and SaaS licenses
- Right size licenses based on metrics like servers, instances, processes, and users
- Evaluate servers, instances, and VMs to suggest configurations and core distribution
- Know where your physical hardware assets are, and what software is running on them
- Reduce time and errors from manual data entry and spreadsheets
- Know if hardware purchase requests are really needed to eliminate unmanaged spend
- Use accurate data to better plan and forecast inventory needs
- Initiate hardware / software refresh, upgrades, or cost management
- Streamline onboarding and offboarding with automated workflows and asset tracking
- Track budget and ROI of deployed IT resources
- Increase agility (what-if scenarios) to adjust resources when priorities change