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October 2022

IT Horror Fest 2022

It's baaaa-aaaaack. The ritual is set. The PowerShell rites have been cast. Once again, we're calling together a coven of your favorite IT experts to share stories of cursed server closets, loathsome legacy systems shrouded in mystery (and misery), and support tickets from HELL. This year, in addition to real-life horror stories and IT survival tips we're subjecting our panel to a monstrously spicy challenge that may just make this year's Fest our last.

SaaS Based Asset Management: 5 Main Reasons why Asset Managers choose it

In today’s fiercely competitive world, all businesses strive to boost productivity while maintaining minimal overhead expenses and strong margins. In order to consciously, effectively, and affordably scale up and down with demand to supply the storage and processing capacity they need on a global scale, cloud architecture and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions have evolved.

Ivanti Browser Manager

Ivanti Browser Manager maximizes the end-user experience by retaining essential web data, so that user favorites are synchronized across all browsers and URLs redirect to an appropriate browser. With Ivanti Browser Manager you can provide a user experience optimized for mobile and remote users in a multi-browser environment across all desktops, physical and virtual instances.

New Tools for New Challenges

Shopping—as we once knew it—has changed forever. And with it, the art and science of providing the right product at the right place and time has become even more complicated for retailers everywhere. In an ever-competitive retail landscape, customers—often impatient with chronic out-of-stocks and other supply chain disruptions—now expect shopping experiences that are more unified, personalized, and address their immediate needs.

What to Look for With Ivanti's Fourth Quarter Release

In 2004, a joint initiative of the US Department of Homeland Security and the National Cybersecurity Alliance declared October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month to help raise awareness of the best practices to remain safe while working online. Vigilance enables us to maintain privacy and productivity for our own sake and for the organizations we may work for.

Take Stock During Peak Season

It’s that time of the year again and peak season 2022 feels different. With supply chains and global economies in flux, businesses have a lot to consider. Shipping woes are subsiding in many areas – consider that a year ago, the queue at the Port of Long Beach, California was approaching a peak of 110 vessels, down to eight freighters in September of this year. East coast ports in the US and others around the globe are seeing rising tides.

Privacy, Please! Why a Comprehensive Federal Framework is Essential to Protect Consumer Data Privacy

Laws vary by state. That’s expected. Fairbanks, Alaska, enacted a law prohibiting the provision of alcoholic beverages to moose, so don’t even think about it. In a part of Washington State, good luck trying to kill Bigfoot. (Not because Bigfoot doesn’t exist, but specifically because it’s illegal per a 1969 law.) But what happens when state-specific regulations are used to address a topic that transcends geographic boundaries like, say, the internet?

How to Achieve Efficient Asset Management With The Best SaaS Solutions

Worried about how you can streamline operations within your company? Keeping track of internal processes, especially managing assets (regardless of their type), is an important task that calls for greater accountability and efficiency. Effective asset management can help you save time, effort, and money, gather valuable insights to make an informed decision and get acquainted with factors that could influence your organization’s growth.

What is Fixed Asset Management Software? Why is it Important for Manufacturing Companies?

Fixed asset management is a key to a business’s ability to generate revenue, companies must keep track of their assets’ location, quantity, condition, and depreciation status. However, this can be a difficult task for businesses of any size.

How to Use QR Codes for Asset Management and Tracking

Managing an IT inventory can be challenging, especially when you have a high number of assets. At some point, you must have found yourself opening a bunch of identical laptops just because you didn’t have the serial number from the one you needed at hand. However, this situation can be solved with QR codes for asset management. If the picture we just painted resonates with you at any level, then QR codes will become your allies. And the best part is that you can create them directly from!

How Asset Infinity solved the issue of multi-location Asset Management for a Financial Institution

‍Financial companies have lots of assets that are valuable and these assets such as laptops, mobiles etc. contain crucial information that is crucial for business continuity and for maintaining SLAs and TATs. Not too surprisingly, even financial sector entities such as banking institutions, lending services, brokerage firms face several issues due to mismanagement of assets. As a result, they suffer from asset misplacement, asset theft, decreased productivity, and unknown asset movement.

Ivanti Neurons for Patch Management

Ivanti Neurons for Patch Management enables you to prioritize and patch vulnerabilities based on active risk exposure, patch reliability, and device compliance, health and risk from a single web interface. In this video we take a firsthand look at this cloud-native patch management solution and its key features and capabilities that help you better protect against data breaches, ransomware and other threats that stem from software vulnerabilities.

Alloy Software Launches Mobile Self-Service App!

Alloy Software Inc. today unveils a brand-new mobile experience for end-users of its Alloy Navigator ITAM/ITSM suite. The new app offers mobile users the ability to report issues and track their progress, request services from the IT team, search for answers in the knowledge base, reserve equipment for temporary use, and more.

Replenishment - New Thoughts on an Old Problem

A replenishment system's purpose is to place the right amount of inventory at the right place at the right time. It's a basic problem yet requires complex execution. Over the years, product explosion, location additions and contractions, omnichannel shopping, and fulfillment option expansion have made replenishment challenging.

How to Streamline Contract Lifecycle Management

Although the word “contract” immediately takes us to the Legal department, it also has a lot to do with IT. Having a proper contract lifecycle management of IT and software assets not only helps organizations to reduce costs, but if connected to the assets themselves, it becomes an effective way to boost productivity. The easiest and quickest way to do this is using as your contract lifecycle management software – on top of being your ITAM tool. How?

How Tech Mags Can Invest & Protect Their Financial Assets

Whether you're running a tech mag or an online business, protecting your financial assets is important. It's a competitive and harsh world out there, and brands today need to work extra hard to stay afloat. From your products to your ads space to your website, anything can be an asset and needs to be protected. Whether you're looking to expand your business or protect the future of your company, you've come to the right place. Here's everything you need to know about protecting your financial assets to make sure your business stays afloat.

How to Get a Unified IT Asset Inventory in 24 Hours

Getting a unified IT asset inventory can be a headache. Thus, you might be tempted to postpone it. However, sooner or later, you’ll need to get it done. So, we'd recommend you'd better not procrastinate. Sounds a bit harsh, we know, and we understand the reason behind it too. This can be a pretty daunting task, especially if you have multiple files and apps, or untracked assets. But don’t panic! What if we told you you can have your inventory done in just a day?

How to Track Asset Relocation: A Step-by-Step Guide

It's important for any business to keep track of its IT assets, and when it comes the time to do a relocation, things can get a bit tricky. Without the proper IT asset tracking in place, it can be difficult to locate where everything went and who is responsible for what. In this how-to guide, we will walk you through the necessary steps to properly track asset relocation with. With the right tools in place, your business can avoid any potential headaches down the road! Let's get to work.

How To Mitigate Supply Chain Disruption Risks As An E-Commerce Business Owner

As an e-commerce business owner, you are well aware of the risks and challenges that come with running a business in today's digital age. But what you may not be as familiar with are the specific risks and challenges that are unique to e-commerce businesses. One of these is the risk of supply chain disruptions.

How to create a perfect Asset Register with the help of Asset Management Software

FMCD Sector is one of India’s largest growing sectors. The rate at which it has been growing is tremendous and with that comes a different set of hurdles for the industry, if we try to summarize them it can be a low level of management and increasing competition. FMCD Sector is the one which always grows up, as the consumers for Packed foods at relatively low costs attract the consumers.

Application Control for Windows

Application Control for Windows combines dynamic allowed and denied lists with privilege management to prevent unauthorized code execution without making IT manage extensive lists manually and without constraining users. Automated requests and approvals via Service Desk systems lighten the load for IT staff while providing users a streamlined experience.

Zebra Technologies' Your Edge Podcast: One-Year Anniversary of antuit.ai Acquisition

On the one-year anniversary of antuit.ai’s acquisition by Zebra Technologies, our CEO, Sivakumar Lakshmanan joins Suresh Menon, Zebra’s SVP and General Manager for Software Solutions on a special edition of Zebra’s Your Edge Podcast.

How to Simplify Asset Audits with the help of the Asset Auditing Mobile Application?

Asset auditing is usually a long procedure especially when an organization has lots of assets. It becomes more hectic when you know some assets such as vehicles are in different locations and some vehicles are out making deliveries to clients. That is why it is important to plan asset audits in a way so that you have assets available at the time of audit. However, it is not simple as it seems that is why auditing is a complicated procedure!

Simplifying Asset Management in multiple locations with the help of Asset Management Software

Every enterprise needs to look at the assets to supervise and see which ones are available for allotment and which one need to be managed, all this is done for better results throughout the enterprise. Management of these assets has a direct relationship with the growth of any enterprise. It is very important to keep a good track of all the vital information of the asset.

October Cumulative Update for the Alloy ITSM/ITAM Platform

Alloy Software released a new cumulative update to the Alloy Software ITSM/ITAM platform. This update (2022.1.1) includes quality improvements, improves stability, and resolves a number of issues reported in earlier versions. The update involves Alloy Navigator Enterprise, Alloy Navigator Express, and Alloy Discovery Enterprise.

Steps to optimize Asset Management for Large Fintech Organizations

In the past three years (post-covid-19), we have seen a major decline in manual processing. Technology is on a boom, there is a major shift in how work was previously done and the way it is done now. If we talk about Financial Institutions, there is a major shift in how the tasks are now performed. Previously they used to rely on their employees for Asset Tracking and Management as they did not have a lot to focus on.

Ivanti Neurons for Discovery

Ivanti Neurons for Discovery delivers accurate and actionable asset information in minutes. Enjoy visibility in real-time using active and passive scanning techniques and third-party connectors. In this video we take a look at this cloud-native Ivanti Neurons for Discovery solution and its key features and capabilities that help you better understand your hardware and software estate. Get the most from your asset investments, make informed decisions about the performance and health of your assets, avoid unnecessary purchases, and help to improve your security posture.

Harmonizing Inventory Chaos through AI Augmentation

A New Season NFL Football season is upon us. And while I get to spend several hours watching my favorite team, my colleagues at Zebra MotionworksTM are revving up their analysis and insights as "The Official On-Field Player-Tracking Provider" of the NFL. As a fan, I'm amazed by all the information from tracking technology. Besides being cool, it captures data points that weren't even possible before and provides detailed views of players' health and performance.

What is an Asset Reservation System?

How often is it that your employees are looking for an asset only to find it in use elsewhere by someone else? Does it mean that you invest in an endless supply of assets for availability 24x7x365? Regardless of the size of your business, it is not feasible to ensure that your assets will always be available and free so you can lay your hands on them when the need arises. A better solution is to have an asset reservation system.

How Do Mobile Apps Play an Important Role in Tracking Vehicles?

There is a very major change in the way organizations work now. Previously their work was not technology oriented but now with this rapidly changing environment they are making their way through technology and that allows them to stand out and act in a way that they never thought that they will. Now that the scenario has already changed enough the technologies that came up to track the assets are backed by tracking software.

Complete Guide on Depreciate Fixed Assets in 2023

As a business owner, you have probably invested in equipping your company with assets of different kinds, fixed assets being chief among them. Fixed assets are physical or intangible assets that a company uses in its business operations cannot easily convert to cash. These assets are recorded on a company’s balance sheet and typically have a long-term useful life.

Complete Guide on Depreciate Fixed Assets in 2022

As a business owner, you have probably invested in equipping your company with assets of different kinds, fixed assets being chief among them. Fixed assets are physical or intangible assets that a company uses in its business operations cannot easily convert to cash. These assets are recorded on a company’s balance sheet and typically have a long-term useful life.