Enterprise IT Asset Management - Industrial Engineering

 

The International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM) defines IT asset management as:

a set of business practices that incorporates IT assets across the business units within the organization. It joins the financial, inventory, contractual and risk management responsibilities to manage the overall life cycle of these assets including tactical and strategic decision making.

IT assets are important because they help to maintain the CIA triad. CIA comes from confidentiality, integrity and availability: “At the core of information security is information assurance, the act of maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) of information, ensuring that information is not compromised in any way when critical issues arise. These issues include but are not limited to natural disasters, computer/server malfunction, and physical theft.”

https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/it-asset-management-itam/

An overview of enterprise information management (EIM)

Enterprise information management (EIM) is defined as the optimization, storage and processing of data within an enterprise through the combined power of business intelligence or analytics and content management.

In other words, EIM software enables organizations to manage structured and unstructured data across business operations, extract valuable business insights and secure that information while meeting compliance requirements, all on a single platform — at enterprise level.

The goal of information management solutions is to improve efficiency, promote transparency and enable business insights by leveraging software solutions and technologies that are designed to help organizations extract value from their information.

https://www.hyland.com/en/resources/terminology/enterprise-information-management

What is IT asset management (ITAM)?

IT asset management (also known as ITAM) is the process of ensuring an organization’s assets are accounted for, deployed, maintained, upgraded, and disposed of when the time comes. Put simply, it’s making sure that the valuable items, tangible and intangible, in your organization are tracked and being used.  

So, what’s an IT asset? Defined simply, an IT asset includes hardware, software systems, or information an organization values

https://www.atlassian.com/itsm/it-asset-management

Enterprise information asset management: the roles and responsibilities of executive boards

Nina Evans &James Price

Knowledge Management Research & Practice 

Volume 14, 2016 - Issue 3

Pages 353-361 | Published online: 19 Dec 2017

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1057/kmrp.2014.39

Enterprise Information Management and Information Strategy: A Brief How-To Guide

By John H. Dickey, MSHI, RHIA, PMP

https://bok.ahima.org/doc?oid=302595