As the years zip by at increasingly whiplash-inducing speeds, I feel a strange mix of emotions. On one hand, yes, it is indeed a little startling that 2022 has come and gone so quickly. But as I look back on the passing year, I am also amazed at the number of things that occurred, the challenges we faced, the goals we accomplished, and the many things we’ve learned. All in all, 2022 was a fantastic year for InvGate. Our community of users, developers, and employees is bigger and better than ever.

Are you experiencing difficulties in locating a specific asset in your warehouse? Whether it be boxes, containers, or individual items, having visibility to all your assets is necessary for a productive and compliant warehouse. But, keeping track of all of those individual parts can be challenging, especially if your warehouse needs to manage thousands of pieces of machinery, goods, or assets.

In modern organizations, employee efficiency matters just as much as—if not more than—productivity. Although the terms are often used interchangeably, they capture different phenomena. Productivity measures how much work an employee gets done overall. Efficiency refers to an employee’s ability to get more done in less time, with fewer resources.

Being a good IT leader may not be something you’re born with but it is something you can learn. Of course, some people are naturals, but instinct isn’t the only way to achieve it. You can also become one – in time, and with the right tools and approach. And that’s what we’re about to explore here.

There are lots of organizations that struggle with keeping track of the many assets they own, where they are located, and who is using them! Some organizations utilize manual methods such as spreadsheets, pen & paper methods, etc. These methods are not effective as they are not accurate. When an organization does not have this information then asset misplacement, theft, and misutilization of assets increases.

Internal IT support teams are often the first place employees turn for help with technical issues, and it’s important for team members to be able to quickly understand problems, identify solutions, and enable the employee to get back to work. Though there are plenty of technologies and organizational practices capable of improving support service teams, team-wide skills are the heart of every great service provider.

All educational institutions, from elementary schools to technical colleges, from medical schools to law schools, must manage and maintain their records and keep them current on all their inventory and fixed assets. Due to the stakeholders involved, public schools, private schools, and institutions of higher learning must manage their inventory and assets properly.

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of assets? For most people, assets are the most expensive possessions, like a house or other kinds of investments. But, for a business leader like you- they can be assets such as sophisticated infrastructure, machines, equipment, or vehicles. However, owning assets is not a big deal, but effectively carrying out the task of asset tracking can be; as it is crucial for any company to develop an infrastructure with a long lifespan.

Even though IT asset monitoring alerts are a great tool to keep your company’s assets safe, they can sometimes become your worst nightmare. Raise your hand if you never configured them poorly and ended up with tons of irrelevant notifications. Due to their very nature of keeping you in the loop of changes, they can provoke the exact opposite effect since you’ll end up ignoring them. However, they are useful – at least in theory.