Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)

Score8 out of 10

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What is Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)?

IBM's Tivoli Asset Management for IT reached end of life (EOL) in 2015.

Categories & Use Cases

IT Asset Management

Software and hardware inventory tracking
Discovery and management of hardware and software inventory
Category average: 8.2
License management
Tracking license agreement compliance to ensure that infrastructure is neither over nor under licensed
Category average: 7.6
Asset lifecycle monitoring
Monitoring asset lifecycle from acquisition to retirement
Category average: 7.5

Contract management
Tools to assist in managing purchase orders and contracts
Category average: 7.3
Asset relationship management
Asset relationship management is the ability to see relationships between assets to help with troubleshooting
Category average: 7.6

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

The first and foremost is Tivoli Asset Management has a rich set of software catalogs available in the market. On top of it IBM, publishes the latest and greatest often to add/include in the catalog bucket.
Easy to integrate with any asset management solution.
Can take benefit of all asset module solutions such as procurement, invoicing, PO, receivables, asset lifecyle, vendor and contract management using Tivoli Asset Management.

Cons

Software bundling can be handled in a better way
Should eliminate rotating/non-rotating items concepts or should have an easy way to receive assets
Asset Topology can be introduced to see the dependencies between related assets

Return on Investment

By tracking software assets, we are able to easily manage the license compliance
By getting the over/under allocation metrics we are able to get full control on asset procurement
Recycle/Reuse asset procedures made simple

Alternatives Considered

BMC Atrium CMDB

Other Software Used

IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli NetCool/OMNIbus, IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact