Zero Tool ITAM Concept

Zero Tool ITAM Concept

The Zero Tool ITAM Concept allows organizations to start immediately solving ITAM and SAM challenges without having to wait for 'precursor' activities. The concept scales without needing to invest the time, money and resources of an off the shelf tool, and there is greater control into how the data can be analyzed which derives powerful new insights.

Background

The concept was born from seeing ongoing industry frustrations with addressing SAM and ITAM fundamentals. Most of these centered around or being linked to data challenges regardless of industry, maturity level and organizational size.

Major Pain Points

Challenges with sourcing the funding to procure a Tool, preventing the ability to at least do 'something' now.
Environment complexities which need to be ironed out first before a Tool initiative can take flight and with sufficient momentum.
Basic ITAM and SAM building block challenges in understanding the 'data foundation'.
Lack of expertise to implement the Tool to a sufficient standard.
Vendor's functionality is not currently available or only partially available to address important functional requirements.
Integrations are limited and not customizable (as well as rigid integration behavior being present).
Even with a fully implemented tool, inability to 'get at the data' causes problems leading to manual work, thus limiting value opportunity and time bleed.
Ability to tackle the ITAM/SAM data ecosystem strategically and holistically

Soothing The Pain

The Zero Tool ITAM Concept solves these pain points and more. We bring our best in class ideas, accelerators, approaches and methods to provide a highly scalable and powerful path forward. Short term results will provide immediate traction and value however longer term benefits are also sustained - the concept can still serve as a powerful engine for areas of validation, analytics and risk sensing. It also can easily be coupled with RPA to perform advanced analysis or provide ways to close extensibility across gaps in your Tooling ecosystem.

An Accelerator To Maturity

Even with the planned procurement of a SAM/ITAM Tool, the concept acts as an accelerator by quickly addressing many data and process problems that will inevitably limit SAM Tool implementation progress and impede program maturity.

Key Advantages

Speed

Quickly bring in data to a single, central micro-warehouse, without dependency on version releases or Vendor product roadmap negotiations.

Control

See all of your data, not a subsection of it. Enhanced visibility coupled with well balanced abstraction is ITAM poetry in motion.

Scale

Scale without concern for performance or ITAM Tool license cost increases. Swiftly adapt and move to organizational changes within the IT landscaoe.

Insights and Intelligence

Insights and Intelligence are achievable sooner and with greater accuracy. New insights are created with more powerful underlying intelligence.

Flexibility

Rigidity has its benefits with solutions, but so does flexibility. You have the rigidity aspect covered, but what about being adaptable and flexible?

Throughput

In ITAM, time is the most precious resource you have. Increasing throughput will literally create time, enabling better quality and decision making.

The Power to Conquer 'Unknown Unknowns'

An Ongoing Completeness Challenge

Those familiar with SAM and ITAM will have heard with the terms known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. The reality is that much information exists somewhere in the organization, whether that be through direct access, metadata, or business rule based generation. By accessing a richer data set from new areas of the organization, these populations will be notably better managed.

The CMDB Burning Spear

CMDB's have been flavor of the month for some time. Yet achieving CMDB hygiene is a major industry pain point, often causing more problems than they solve. The Zero Tool ITAM Concept can intelligently reverse engineer a CMDB from scratch, or even help to validate and resolve ongoing CMDB hygiene issues. Should you wish to not embrace the CMDB as a key component of your ITAM processes, the concept can help to provide a similar outcome without the extra effort to build and maintain, and thus dislocating any CMDB dependency.

Doing More With Data

By reaching into new data sources and data source types, new dimensions can take shape for analysis purposes within ITAM. These provide new forms of data intelligence that generate new insights and faster moving, more informed actions. It also provides a strong base for next generation technologies such as RPA to execute and scale. and move your activities to be less reactive and more proactive. The concept leverages an abstract integration paradigm that categorizes data into clean, manageable components.

Help Drive Governance and Data Accountability

Many problems sit within the ITAM mandate but outside of the enablement sphere. Translation - ITAM needs to be enabled across the organization both horizontally and vertically. By creating a systemic framework of accountability for data and processes the ITAM ecosystem will become more mature and coordinated. Pockets where troublesome or inconsistent data and processes exist start to receive full visibility, and uncovering these issues allows them to be aligned and solved at a broader, coordinated level.

Your ITAM data is like an iceberg, you can only see what's on the surface, but looking deeper will unlock full potential.

The Power of the Data Ecosystem

Often, unknowns exist simply because the actual data is 'unknown' (missing), and not because the data is simply not available anywhere.

Looking further within your ecosystem, and understanding it as an organic entity, may uncover data that can greatly benefit ITAM such as automation capacity, data quality and completeness, optimization opportunities and for understanding user behaviors. You can also improve and augment your ecosystem to bolster this potential, rather than depending on ITAM to simply be the consuming recipient of data and 'making do with what has been provided'.

The Art Of The Possible

Mining Your Data

With a more empowered and richer dataset, you can mine information in more innovative ways. You can couple mining with powerful sensory type functionality to call out issues and bring them to your attention, saving you the trouble of endless searching.

Predictive Analytcs

Predictive analytics can help reduce cloud costs, dynamically adjust license costs at the infrastructure level, and look for trends indicative of unanticipated risk. You can also implement back tracing to extract valuable lessons learned and KPI/KRI based improvements.

Extracting real world Dimensions, relationships and patterns.

Advanced analysis mechanisms can find patterns, trends, and data dimensions that were not previously visible, all through the power of the concept's engine. By uncovering these, new intelligence can help inform decision making and resolving process issues that can be improved. This translates into potentially saving the ITAM team knowing what to look for in order to solve acute challenges. The engine recognizes that the data leveraged is a two dimensional description of a mutli- dimensional organizational reality, and accordingly uses special algorithms and techniques to transpose this storage limitation into powerful real world insights.

Where and When To Deploy

At the start of your ITAM journey, with little in the way of established processes and data sources.
When the tool selection process is hitting roadblocks or simply taking a long time.
As an accelerator to get arms around ITAM fundamentals and thus shorten the planned ITAM solution time to value.
As a parallel instrument to your ITAM solution, for purposes of validation, addressing acute challenges, data enrichment and provisioning, or functional extensibility.

For further information please reach us at info@Enstarla.com

Zero Tool ITAM Concept

Background

The concept was born from seeing ongoing industry frustrations with addressing SAM and ITAM fundamentals. Most of these centered around or being linked to data challenges regardless of industry, maturity level and organizational size.

Major Pain Points

Challenges with sourcing the funding to procure a Tool, preventing the ability to at least do 'something' now.

Environment complexities which need to be ironed out first before a Tool initiative can take flight and with sufficient momentum.

Basic ITAM and SAM building block challenges in understanding the 'data foundation'.

Lack of expertise to implement the Tool to a sufficient standard.

Vendor's functionality is not currently available or only partially available to address important functional requirements.

Integrations are limited and not customizable (as well as rigid integration behavior being present).

Even with a fully implemented tool, inability to 'get at the data' causes problems leading to manual work, thus limiting value opportunity and time bleed.

Ability to tackle the ITAM/SAM data ecosystem strategically and holistically

Soothing The Pain

An Accelerator To Maturity

Even with the planned procurement of a SAM/ITAM Tool, the concept acts as an accelerator by quickly addressing many data and process problems that will inevitably limit SAM Tool implementation progress and impede program maturity.

Key Advantages

Speed

Quickly bring in data to a single, central micro-warehouse, without dependency on version releases or Vendor product roadmap negotiations.

Control

See all of your data, not a subsection of it. Enhanced visibility coupled with well balanced abstraction is ITAM poetry in motion.

Scale

Scale without concern for performance or ITAM Tool license cost increases. Swiftly adapt and move to organizational changes within the IT landscaoe.

Insights and Intelligence

Insights and Intelligence are achievable sooner and with greater accuracy. New insights are created with more powerful underlying intelligence.

Flexibility

Rigidity has its benefits with solutions, but so does flexibility. You have the rigidity aspect covered, but what about being adaptable and flexible?

Throughput

In ITAM, time is the most precious resource you have. Increasing throughput will literally create time, enabling better quality and decision making.

The Power to Conquer 'Unknown Unknowns'

An Ongoing Completeness Challenge

The CMDB Burning Spear

Doing More With Data

Help Drive Governance and Data Accountability

Your ITAM data is like an iceberg, you can only see what's on the surface, but looking deeper will unlock full potential.

The Power of the Data Ecosystem

Often, unknowns exist simply because the actual data is 'unknown' (missing), and not because the data is simply not available anywhere.

The Art Of The Possible

Mining Your Data

With a more empowered and richer dataset, you can mine information in more innovative ways. You can couple mining with powerful sensory type functionality to call out issues and bring them to your attention, saving you the trouble of endless searching.

Predictive Analytcs

Predictive analytics can help reduce cloud costs, dynamically adjust license costs at the infrastructure level, and look for trends indicative of unanticipated risk. You can also implement back tracing to extract valuable lessons learned and KPI/KRI based improvements.

Extracting real world Dimensions, relationships and patterns.

Where and When To Deploy

At the start of your ITAM journey, with little in the way of established processes and data sources.

When the tool selection process is hitting roadblocks or simply taking a long time.

As an accelerator to get arms around ITAM fundamentals and thus shorten the planned ITAM solution time to value.

As a parallel instrument to your ITAM solution, for purposes of validation, addressing acute challenges, data enrichment and provisioning, or functional extensibility.

For further information please reach us at info@Enstarla.com