The IT asset management (ITAM) industry and related best practices and standards are changing fast now. After five to seven years of discussion and prediction by research firms about the benefits of good ITAM the market is moving and aligning but it is also converging with other disciplines and other related but historically ‘’siloed’’ technology sets.

Historically IT Asset Management software has been developed and marketed in very different ways and with different audiences in mind.

This includes areas such as inventory/discovery, asset databases, financial fixed asset register, barcoding solutions, software distribution and patch management, software change and release management solutions.

These changes to the industry are being introduced by the emergence of specialist disciplines such as IT Service Management, more focus on compliance, new innovative core technologies, more complex licensing schemes and contracts, increased demand for fast patching and deployment, more security monitoring, Microsoft’s new DSI roadmap and many other technologies, standards and processes.

One may then ask how an organisation copes with this changing landscape whilst at the same time facing continuous pressures of 'better service for less spend' and the increased velocity of IT related change in today’s business. Well, the fact is that most organisations don’t cope well at all.

At ITAMS we specialise in this convergence, assisting organisations to make the most of the real world opportunities generated by this changing market without drowning in the marketing messages. We constantly review the tools and technologies in this space and understand them back to front. We help organisations to visualise where the best efficiency gains are in their specific circumstances, how to overcome the vendor hype and how to leverage existing investments in order to define the most effective technical and process architecture, even in difficult organisations.