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Over the last few years, “DEX – digital employee experience” has stopped being a buzzword and become a core pillar of both IT and business strategy. The shift started with the pandemic, but its impact is here to stay. As Dave Wagner, Head of Business Development at Almaden, explains, “the big factor that made managing the employee experience more critical than ever started with COVID.

Enterprises have spent the last decade investing heavily in visibility tools to understand where their assets are and how they move across locations. While this approach has improved basic control, it has also revealed a larger gap. Knowing where assets are does not automatically explain how well they perform, how effectively they are used, or whether they contribute real business value. This is where asset intelligence becomes critical.

IT operations teams deal with growing system volume, faster release cycles, and tighter service expectations. Traditional monitoring tools generate large alert volumes, yet teams still spend hours sorting signal from noise under pressure. Manual triage slows response time, while disconnected tools stretch incident handling and service recovery.

Today marks an important milestone in our journey to make your Ivanti support experience effortless, intuitive and all in one place: Ivanti Innovators Hub is now live! This isn’t just a refresh; it’s a major step forward — delivering a smarter, unified destination where support, resources and community meet your needs, your way.

The InvGate Asset Management Agent is a lightweight piece of software that runs on your endpoints to collect essential hardware and software data. Organizations use it to gain full visibility into their IT environment, keep inventories accurate, understand real software usage, and support remote operations, all as part of a broader IT Asset Management strategy focused on control, optimization, and compliance.

Modern IT environments are noisy. The sheer volume of telemetry data coming forth every second from microservices, hybrid clouds, and containerized applications is just extraordinary. In IT Operations, NOC teams, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), this data is crucial, but only if it can be acted upon. When it’s not like this, everything becomes a background noise.

Dashboards provide a useful prism through which we can study the broader evolution of the IT professional’s role in the era of agentic AI. For years, dashboards have been the centerpiece of IT work, serving as the interface where teams interpret system behavior, diagnose issues, and plan actions. Dashboards epitomize the relationship between humans and their systems: humans observe, interpret, and act. As agentic AI enters the picture, that relationship begins to change. Let’s explore how.