About A&M
Technology Asset Management Services
Alvarez & Marsal TAMS professionals bring a distinctive business approach to managing and deploying multi-faceted IT asset management systems. By bridging the gap between finance and technology, A&M TAMS professionals help companies reduce IT costs, integrate technology spending into the overall business model and improve the efficiency of technology-related processes and policies.
Technology Asset Management Services include:
These services are focused on the IT Asset Lifecycle, which includes:
Planning: Key business decisions, strategic and tactical, across the enterprise that are based on IT asset data, including forecasting and budgeting (financial and unit), decisions on Service Level Agreements, vendor management, operational measurement, and management reporting. Planning and reporting are key elements in all stages of the ITAM Lifecycle, but require separate processes to achieve objectives in the other stages.
Fulfillment and Procurement: The key business processes that take place from the time an "IT asset need" is identified through to the creation and submission of a purchase order.
Receiving: Business processes that take place once a purchase order has been submitted to a vendor, and equipment is physically received and an IT asset record is created.
Contracting and Licensing: The key business processes associated with establishing hardware leases, hardware maintenance contracts and software licensing, as applicable.
Payment and Reconciliation: Key business processes associated with paying vendors, reconciling monthly invoices from vendors pertaining to technology assets and managing charge-backs.
Tracking: Processes associated with keeping track of the physical location and assignment of an IT asset, including asset Moves, Adds and Changes within an environment, and maintaining compliance with related contracts.
Disposal: Processes related to the end of life of an IT asset, including physical removal, financial impact, and compliance with regulatory disposal requirements and guidelines.