About asset management

With help of Miradore you can discover, track, and manage all physical, financial, software, and contractual data associated to your IT assets throughout their life cycle.

Typical goals of asset management are

Keep track of assets and ownership information
Detect loss & documented proper asset removal process
Improve quality by automatizing standardized processes and detecting problems proactively
Enforce compliancy
Plan future purchase/lease needs
Ensure software license compliancy and optimize number of licenses

Core of the asset management in Miradore is the asset configuration item. Basic asset management involves assets, their mutual relationships and various other configuration items that are used to define asset configuration item attributes.

These configuration items can describe assets physical attributes like hardware category or model , logical attributes like location, organisation, responsible person, device role, device usage, contractual attributes software, hardware or service contracts.

Main steps for efficient asset and configuration management

	Step	Actions in Miradore
	Discover and collect data	Add connectors to third-party systems and import asset information to Miradore Management Suite You can also import asset data to Miradore using an XML file Discover network-connected devices with network discovery Deploy Miradore client to your computers with Miradore client deployer Enter your license information
	Analyze and standardize	Explore the assets and their relationships with help of data from multiple sources. What do we own? Where is it located? What are the costs? What is the quality of our environment? How do we build our assets? What are the methods currently in place? What is our permission structure?
	Automate	Build the configuration and software packages. Attach the packages to locations, organisations, etc. Implement the support for Miradore initial installation method to all your locations and organisations.
	Improve	Define the Quality index reports to measure your IT assets quality.