IT Asset Management (ITAM) is the practice that can help you manage, control, and protect your IT estate, leveling up your IT offering. To run an effective practice, ITAM professionals need to engage with current industry best practices, and ITAM certifications are a massive part of this. But since there are a lot of training courses available, we wanted to lend a helping hand and get you covered on the basics – as we already did with ITIL certifications.

Many businesses lose productivity because of failing to track work orders. In order to maintain constant efficiency, work order tracking is crucial for companies. Asset management software can be helpful for effective work order administration. The work order supervisors, managers, directors, and decision-makers can all benefit significantly from it. Service requests and work orders can be created and managed with work order software, a particular asset management software.

The issue of losing assets affects everyone. For many firms, it’s also expensive because missing goods and equipment translate into missed sales. Asset tracking can help with this. The issue is that it can be challenging to select the best asset tracking system. You must make the most of every asset because doing so will enable you to save money. Firms can reduce their total cost of ownership and increase their asset return on investment by identifying their assets at the right moment.

Regardless if you work for a large enterprise or a small organization, sustainability is an ITSM trend that you need to be aware of. There are plenty of sustainability initiatives for businesses that have been flourishing for quite some time now, so it’s time to catch up. But first of all, you might be wondering how is this important to you in an IT service management (ITSM) role. And that would be a valid question. Of course, sustainability is bigger than the ITSM or IT space.

IT Service Management (ITSM) tools are for many organizations the lifeblood of the help desk and possibly the entire IT department. Some would argue these tools are the lifeblood of the entire organization, as well. Many IT departments live and die by their IT Service Management tools, using them to track everything from support tickets to change control requests, provisioning and de-provisioning of resources and more.

When an organization is small, they have limited assets for that purpose spreadsheet can be used. However, when the number of assets and organization grows spreadsheet becomes inaccurate as many people access it at one time. When multiple people access spreadsheets the chances of inaccuracy increase, and data can be changed unintentionally. Moreover, the chances of finding errors are not good as there is no timestamp or tracking.

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