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To be or not to be? To do - or not to do - an ELP?

Before I start my ramble here, let me tell you something... the day I learned how to construct a manual Effective License Position (ELP) in Excel my life gained a new purpose, and it became the biggest hobby, sport and passion ever! Those who have done manual ELPs in Excel will know that magic feeling! First, it’s hard as you scramble for the data and licensing knowledge, but if you’re lucky enough and at least get some vendor report or purchase summary, it's a good starting point...

The Global Pandemic Has Led to Unprecedented QR Code Security Challenges

Over the past year, we have witnessed remarkable changes brought on by our response to a global pandemic. Along with accelerated digital transformation and the consumerization of technology, Covid-19 has birthed the everywhere workplace, where users work with any device, to connect to business-critical systems and applications. Work has become something you do rather than a place you go.

What is Hardware Asset Management (HAM)? Why is it Important?

Managing hardware assets, manually, from the time they are purchased to the time they are disposed of is a tedious, cumbersome task that is susceptible to many errors. These manual and scattered processes are often inaccurate and difficult to manage. Manual data keeping means that asset information is stored in silos, which raises the overhead expenses, increases the likelihood of asset theft and losses, and makes it hard to comply with the organization’s standards and regulations.

Peace of Mind in the Everywhere Workplace

Protect your brand, people and data with an end-to-end, zero trust approach At Ivanti, we make the Everywhere Workplace possible. Our solutions enable fundamental security controls based on zero trust principles and best practices from cloud to the edge. Translation: we secure all endpoints and help organizations move toward an end-to-end, passwordless access authentication experience. Plus, we make it simple.

Service the Everywhere Workplace

Drive outcomes with insights What if you could give employees reliably great experiences while improving outcomes across your organization? You’ve got it with Enterprise Service Management from Ivanti. It arms you with insights and actions that let you dramatically reduce resolution times and give you more time for the cool stuff you love to do.

Quick Search for People in Alloy Navigator Mobile App

Being mobile is in large part about communication. Our app for mobile access to Alloy Navigator™ ITSM platform gives IT people the freedom to communicate with customers and teammates, notify stakeholders, submit approval requests, assign work, and escalate incidents from anywhere, anytime. All those communication tasks typically involve choosing the right person from a list.

How automation simplifies hardware asset management

Anyone involved in any kind of datacenter or physical IT operations faces multiple challenges every day: What if there were an easier way? End-to-end automated workflow At ServiceNow, we reached a major milestone: end-to-end automated workflow of the cloud hardware supply chain, from order through disposal. The features in the Paris release of ServiceNow® Hardware Asset Management (HAM) took us over the finish line, reducing asset management time for engineers and asset managers by 76%.

Spring 2021 Updates for the Alloy ITSM/ITAM Platform

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Spring 2021 update to the Alloy Software ITSM/ITAM platform, including Navigator, Navigator Express, and Discovery. This maintenance release (8.7.4) offers stability and usability improvements, resolves issues with external tool integrations in Discovery and Network Inventory, and addresses several issues reported in earlier versions. For detailed information about all changes in this update, please see Release Notes for your product.

Secure Your IT Assets for an Optimal Return

We’ve officially entered everyone’s favorite time of year—tax season. You can find me rifling through the stack of mail and records I’ve been hoarding over the past year, while my husband calmly reviews his neatly archived digital documents. Completing your tax return forces you to review all your fiscal actions from the past year, which can be made easier with secure digital tracking, tagging, and maintenance along the way.