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What Is IoT? Benefits for IoT Asset Management
In today’s fast-paced business environment, the efficient management of assets is crucial for maintaining productivity and profitability. The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a game-changer in asset management, offering innovative solutions to traditional challenges. This blog post explores what IoT is, its benefits and drawbacks, and how it is revolutionizing asset management using IoT.
Cloud Based vs. Self Hosted vs. On Premise Asset Management
In the world of asset management, choosing the right system can significantly impact your business's efficiency and productivity. Cloud-based, self-cloud-hosted, and on-premise asset management solutions each have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. This blog post will explore these options in detail, helping you make an informed decision about which system is best for your organization.
How to Integrate IT Asset Management With Service Desk?
Integrating IT Asset Management (ITAM) with your service desk is crucial for streamlining business activities and optimizing resource utilization. The ITAM process encompasses the tracking, managing, and reporting hardware assets throughout their lifecycle, ensuring that data centers operate efficiently and cost-effectively. By aligning ITAM with your service desk, you create a unified system that enhances visibility and control over assets from procurement to retirement.
What Is 3PL Fulfillment And How Does It Work?
Is your business struggling to keep up with soaring customer expectations and rising fulfillment costs? It's time to consider 3PL fulfillment. By partnering with a third-party logistics provider, businesses can streamline operations, reduce expenses, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. This article will discuss how 3PL fulfillment works and how it can transform your business.
Best 5 Data Security Platforms for 2024
If you've been following tech trends, you know that data security isn't just a buzzword-it's absolutely crucial. With hackers getting sneakier and data breaches hitting the headlines almost daily, the push for top-notch data security platforms (DSPs) has never been more urgent.
Optimize Your ESM Workflows with Automation
Sick of the lost time outmoded workflows cause your IT team? Automation is the secret weapon you've been waiting for to streamline manual processes, free your IT staff and dramatically improve service quality across your organization. Join our live webinar moderated by Ivanti’s Phil Bowermaster and featuring real-world success stories from SCI's Jesse Miller and NCC Group's James Wooltorton — who’ll explain how you can optimize your workflows and take your ESM strategy to new heights.
How to level up your Microsoft ecosystem for ITAM with InvGate Insight
We show you how to use Active Directory, Entra, Azure, Intune, and Windows features in InvGate Insight. Learn to sync users, manage cloud assets, track devices, handle Microsoft contracts, and deploy software. Learn how to effortlessly sync users, manage cloud resources, track devices, handle Microsoft contracts, and deploy software—all within InvGate Insight.
Cyber Defense 202: Exploit Vulnerabilities | Security Insights Ep. 41
Ivanti's Robert Waters (Lead PMM, Exposure Management) is back with Chris Goettl (VP of Product, Patch Management) for the last of our three episodes covering Verizon's 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, covering the third-most popular attack vector in breaches today: exploit vulnerabilities. And while they may be #3 in prevalence, they're #1 in Chris' and Robert's hearts.
How to take advantage of 5.9 like a ninja
Join NinjaOne PMs as they make the case for the best enhancement of 5.9 and how you can take advantage of the feature.
Customized Asset Management & Asset Tracking Software Benefits
In today’s fast-paced business environment, managing and tracking assets efficiently is crucial for maintaining productivity and reducing costs. Customized asset management and asset tracking software offer tailored solutions that cater to the specific needs of an organization. This blog post explores the benefits, features, and steps involved in building a customized asset management and tracking system, along with real-world customizations that Asset Infinity has implemented for its customers.
Boost Remote Work Efficiency with Remote Asset Management
The rise of remote and hybrid work has been a welcome change for workers everywhere. However, it has also created numerous challenges for managers, particularly in the area of asset management. Effective asset tracking and enterprise asset management are crucial for maintaining operational efficiency, security, and business continuity in this new paradigm.
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5 Essential Steps for Effective IT Asset Management
IT Asset Management is a critical aspect of any organization's overall IT strategy. Many organizations, however, are not able to achieve their desired IT Asset Management goals due to the lack of a well-defined approach or the right solution. As a result, they often suffer from a high cost of ownership, low asset utilization, and increased security risks. This is why effective IT Asset Management is becoming increasingly important in the current economy. To achieve this, organizations need to follow a set of essential steps to ensure their IT Asset Management strategies are working correctly.
IT Asset Management: A Comprehensive Guide by Asset Infinity
In today's digital era, organizations rely heavily on IT assets to run their operations efficiently. Proper management of these assets is crucial to ensure optimal performance, minimize costs, and maintain compliance. This comprehensive guide by Asset Infinity delves into what is IT asset management, its importance, benefits, best practices, challenges, and more.
Combining MDM and MTD for Strategic Security
The mobile threat landscape is constantly evolving, with advanced threats like CryptoChameleon emerging all the time. To effectively combat these challenges, organizations need a comprehensive solution – and that’s where combining Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) and Mobile Device Management (MDM) comes in. While MTD can identify potential threats on mobile devices, it often lacks the capability to take proactive measures to address them once they’ve been identified.
Canned Responses and Snippets: Your Key to Accurate, Consistent Communication
Watch this quick video to discover how to use snippets for canned responses, predefined answers, and more! Learn how Alloy Navigator helps save time, enhance efficiency, and ensure consistent, accurate communication across your company. Key moments: Streamline your ITSM/ITAM routines and boost customer satisfaction!
Exploring Cloud Migration: Opportunities, Challenges, and Investment Priorities
Exploring Cloud Migration: Opportunities, Challenges, and Investment Priorities The discussion kicks off with the potential of 'lift and shift' in cloud migration, tackling worries about reinventing processes and saving costs. It delves into investment priorities such as assets, discovery, and enhancing the digital employee experience. The latest additions to the portfolio offer a unified dashboard, making customer interactions more straightforward.
Canned Messages for Accurate and Consistent Communication
Learn how to improve user communication and boost IT team productivity by using canned responses.
10 Features to Look for in a Fuel Management System for Your Fleet
With global fossil fuel prices set to continue rising well into the foreseeable future, vehicle fleet operations need to start looking into better ways to manage their fuel reserves. For most owners or managers, updating legacy systems to a modern fuel management system (FMS) with automation features can minimise fuel-related overheads with minimal capital required. More compellingly, a modern fuel management system can pay for itself within less than a year, making these products worth the investment for certain fleets.
The Critical Role of the CMDB in Security and Vulnerability Management
Effective security and vulnerability management is crucial to safeguard organizations from ever-evolving cyber threats. At the core of these practices lies the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), a powerful resource that offers a centralized view of an organization's IT infrastructure. The CMDB plays a pivotal role in upholding robust security and vulnerability management strategies – empowering organizations to proactively identify, evaluate and address risks to their IT systems and data.
Don't lose your data! Hear real-world backup strategies from NinjaOne pros
Data loss hurts. Ransomware attacks? Catastrophic. “Real-World Backup Strategies with NinjaOne: Hear from the Pros who use it!” explores the importance of a robust backup strategy and how to implement one in your business. In this webinar, you’ll hear a firsthand account from H.E.R.O.S. President and General Manager Raffi Kajberouni about their ransomware experience, its impact on their business, and how NinjaOne’s Backup solution saved them from downtime and financial disaster.
Mastering ITAD: A Guide to Secure IT Asset Disposition
Ever wonder what happens to all those old computers and smartphones when businesses upgrade their tech? It's not as simple as tossing them in the trash. Enter the world of IT asset disposition, or ITAD for short. This growing field focuses on responsibly managing the lifecycle of technology equipment, from reuse to recycling. It's a crucial process that balances data security, environmental concerns, and regulatory compliance. In this article, we'll explore the ins and outs of ITAD.
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Cybersecurity through IT, Security, and Business Alignment
Bridging the Gap: Enhancing Cybersecurity through IT, Security, and Business Alignment The discussion explores the role of IT and security teams in technology and the challenge of translating these efforts into business understanding for resource allocation. It emphasizes the need to reinvent approaches to bridge gaps between IT, security, and business understanding. The importance of breaking down organizational silos, adopting the Secure by Design standard, and aligning with the CIO and CISO to enhance security is highlighted.
Voice Picking: The Evolution of Mobile Productivity in the Warehouse
Voice-directed picking is an established method for hands-free order fulfillment in warehouses around the world. If you haven’t explored it to boost productivity, now's the time. As it has evolved, voice-based data entry – both text-to-speech and speech-to-text – can be installed into warehouse workflows quickly and economically, without changing your existing warehouse management or other enterprise systems.
Introducing Ivanti Secure UEM Premium
Ivanti has introduced three new cloud-based secure UEM solutions, each with unique features, that let you discover, manage, secure and heal all your devices – and grow with your business.
NinjaOne Remote Product Demo
Join Jeff Hunter, the Field CTO at NinjaOne, for an in-depth look at remote screen share access using NinjaOne Remote! Learn more here: https://www.ninjaone.com/remote-access/
Secure by Design Principles Are More Important Than Ever
The concept of Secure by Design, which means designing software with security built in before it leaves the drawing board, is fundamentally changing how software is developed. Software has often been designed with what’s known as “bolt-on security,” added after products are developed. But that means security is not inherent within the solution. Where there's a conjunction between the core product and a bolt-on, that’s an inflection point for an attack.
Incident vs Problem: What's the Difference?
For the rest of the world, these are just two synonyms. But in ITIL, the main IT service management framework, the distinction is crucial. Let’s find out.
Introducing Ivanti's 3 New Secure UEM Solution Packages
Ivanti has launched three new secure UEM solution packages designed to enhance device management, IT efficiency and security. These cloud-based packages let you discover, manage, secure and heal all your devices. Engineered to be ideal for organizations managing a thousand or more users or devices, these solutions bridge the gap between IT operations and security teams and are secure by design. Ivanti's three new Secure UEM solution packages – Secure UEM Professional, Secure UEM Professional Plus and Secure UEM Premium – offer unique features that aim to minimize security risks, boost IT and user productivity and cut operational costs.
Bridging the Security Confidence Gap: A Guide for IT Leaders
July Risk Comms Report - Sterling Parker IT executives and security leaders often face a misalignment in investments, leading to a security confidence gap. To bridge this gap, CEOs and CISOs must collaborate and communicate effectively, fostering a strong security culture. Organizations should adopt a proactive security posture, regularly reassessing their guardrails. CISOs play a crucial role in conveying risk management concepts to the board and demonstrating the security strategy for organizational support.
5 Things to Look For in Inventory Management Software
IT Inventory Management software, also known as Inventory Management systems or simply inventory software, consists of tools that enable you to track, manage, and monitor all hardware and software assets within your organization throughout their lifecycle. In this video, learn how to manage IT inventory, what an asset inventory should include, and the must-have features of IT inventory management software.
What's the Difference Between a Help Desk and a Service Desk?
The differences between a help desk and a service desk might have once seemed clear. But over the years, plenty of things have changed – especially with the arrival of new technologies that have impacted how users and customers receive support. Let's compare help desk vs. service desk models and examine how this ongoing evolution has played out. One area where the distinctions between a help desk and a service desk are apparent comes when discussing IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions.
What is IT Asset Management? Comprehensive Guide
IT asset management is an essential component to consider in every organization, regardless of the size and type of its business. Managing IT assets is critical in today’s technology-dependent business environment, as these assets underpin business advancement and efficiency.
How to implement MDM like a ninja
Join NinjaOne Director of Product Management, Josh Schofield, as he gives an update on NinjaOne's mobile device management. Josh will also share his expertise and answer questions around how to enable MDM for your org to automate, control, and implement policies across mobile devices at scale.
The Case Against Using Excel for IT Asset Management in 2024
Reasons why you MUST switch to IT asset management software for asset tracking.
Server Management: Best Practices and Essential Tools
Server Management is a critical aspect of IT infrastructure. As enterprises increasingly rely on robust and reliable server systems to power their digital operations, the role of Server Management has become increasingly important for maintaining business productivity and preventing downtime. The article covers the basics of understanding and implementing effective Server Management practices.
Understanding 5 Essential P's of Asset Management ROIs
Asset management is increasingly becoming an integral part of corporate operations. In fact, asset management has become a popular industry and is projected to be valued at a whopping $49.9 billion by the end of 2031 as per growth market reports. Asset management can be referred to as optimizing assets as you track their returns and value. In a nutshell, Managing assets maximizes your output value and minimizes any risk management as you grow as an organization.
The Ultimate Guide to Intune Migrations to Ivanti UEM
If you have purchased Ivanti UEM and are migrating to it from Microsoft Intune, you as an IT administrator must understand and execute several critical steps to make that transition smoothly. In this series of blogs, I will be looking from an Intune admin’s perspective at what it takes to migrate from Intune to Ivanti UEM. I will cover practical elements and best practices, translating terminology used across both products to pave the way for a seamless and successful transition.
One console to rule them all - from mobile devices to servers
Use of mobile devices in today’s modern, distributed workplace is now the norm. They offer broad connectivity, powerful computing, and ease of use, but unmanaged mobile devices can also lead to user frustration while increasing an organization’s attack surface. Fortunately, NinjaOne solves for that. We are thrilled to announce the official launch of NinjaOne Mobile Device Management (MDM). A natural extension to our No. 1-rated endpoint management platform, NinjaOne MDM helps IT organizations reduce cost and complexity, and improve security posture by enabling efficient management for Android and Apple mobile devices — alongside Windows, macOS, Linux, VMs and networking devices — all within a single, easy-to-use console. Sound enticing?
IMACD Process: Installation, Move, Add, Change, and Disposal
As a business or organization grows, managing your IT infrastructure and equipment becomes more and more complicated. Enter IMACD: Installation, Move, Add, Change, and Disposal. An approach simplifies the lifecycle management of IT resources, ensuring that businesses remain agile, secure, and efficient.
Empowering Self-Service IT
Robert Hanson, CTO of Grand.bank, explains how his organization has powered self-service IT offerings, helping multiple business units power their operations through automation.
UWM: What's in the Suite? #ivanti #UWM
IWC is composed of three main components: security, governance, and user workplace manager. The User Workplace Manager offers deployment options and event feedback, while the Pharma Manager optimizes log on and manages user personalization and profile. Performance Manager enhances CPU and memory, and Environment Manager prepares tasks before user login. SQL Server integration and Application Lockdown feature are also included, along with a Start Menu Builder for customization.
3 Key Takeaways From a Business Roundtable with U.S. Cybersecurity Leaders
A new front has opened in American national security. It is being fought in cyberspace, and private businesses in critical industries like energy, healthcare, water and financial services are on the frontlines. This was the message delivered by Congressman Mark Green (R-TN-7) and Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at a business roundtable in Nashville, Tennessee, this week.
Master data grids in Alloy Navigator: Quick tutorial
Master the art of data grids in Alloy Navigator! Watch this tutorial video to unlock the secrets of filtering, sorting, and customizing data views in your Navigator, gaining instant insights and making smarter decisions.
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Using Workforce Management Software? Top KPIs to Assess Schedule Quality
Workforce management (WFM) software can play a pivotal role in modern business operations, as a high-quality schedule not only boosts operational efficiency and employee satisfaction but also improves customer service. Of course, the technology tool chosen must be capable of producing a high-quality schedule if you want a significant return on investment (ROI).
How Smart Facilities Are Enhancing Operational Efficiency in Defence Organisations
Whether a defence force is involved in disaster relief, domestic security, or active combat, efficiency is necessary to offset risk and guarantee success in the field. In recent decades, defence organisations have been following the lead of digitally transformed civilian agencies and businesses in managing their resources, leading to remarkable efficiency gains.
Why Businesses Need Logistics Technology and the Role of 3PL Software
In today's fast-paced world, businesses of all sizes face the challenge of managing their logistics effectively. Whether it's a small startup or a large corporation, having an efficient logistics system can make a huge difference in operational success. This is where logistics technology, particularly third-party logistics (3PL) software, comes into play. Let's dive into why businesses need this technology and how 3PL warehouse management software can be a game-changer.
Practical Demo: Harnessing the Power of #AI and #Automation
Harnessing the Power of AI and Automation This webinar delves into the adoption of generative AI and its role in ITSM, decision making, user experience transformation, ticket classification, self-healing, and virtual agents. It also covers incident summarization, knowledge article generation, and the AI Configuration Hub. The benefits of AI and automation, such as improved data accuracy, analyst productivity, and employee experience, are highlighted.
The ABC's of UEM: Understanding the Best Fit for Your Business
Exploring UEM: A Panel Discussion on Modern Device Management IT professionals from various industries delve into the significance of Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) as a business tool. They discuss its key capabilities such as device management, security, and unified endpoint experience. The conversation also covers metrics for UEM program effectiveness, the shift from traditional to modern device management, and the role of AI in UEM. The panel emphasizes the importance of UEM in enhancing business operations and user experiences.
Add a New Discovery Source For Virtual Machines With InvGate Insight's VMWare Integration
Discovery sources periodically run network analyses to identify devices in your IT environment, ensuring your asset inventory is updated and reliable. It is a fundamental function of any robust IT Asset Management (ITAM) tool. For this reason, we are eager to announce that InvGate Insight now integrates with VMWare! This means that now you can automatically discover and integrate ESXis and vCenters and incorporate them into your inventory without the need to download an individual agent on each one.
How Financial Institutions Can Maximize the ROI of IT Assets
In the financial sector, managing IT assets can present a complex set of barriers due to the industry’s complexity and regulatory demands. Management strategies can greatly enhance the Return on Investment (ROI) of these assets. After all, the financial industry operates in a highly regulated environment that demands rigorous oversight and compliance. The range of IT assets, from hardware to software, requires a structured approach to management.