IT Asset Management (ITAM)
Overview
Managing the full lifecycle and cost of what you own — hardware from procurement to disposal, software licenses and compliance, non-IT enterprise assets, and cloud spend. Sits on top of the CMDB: the CMDB tracks the operational thing, ITAM tracks its financial and contractual life.
Modules in this family
- Hardware Asset Management (HAM) — hardware lifecycle: procure, deploy, retire (HAM)
- Software Asset Management (SAM) — licenses, entitlements, and compliance (SAM)
- Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) — non-IT assets and their maintenance (EAM)
- Cloud Cost Management — visibility and control of cloud spend
Modules in this family
Cloud Cost Management
Visibility and accountability for cloud spend within the asset-management context — ingesting cloud billing, attributing cost to teams and services, and surfacing waste. Overlaps with the broader Cloud Governance suite but framed as an asset/cost discipline.
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
Extends asset management beyond IT to the physical things a business runs on — machinery, vehicles, medical devices, facilities equipment — including their maintenance schedules. It brings the same lifecycle discipline to operational assets and pairs naturally with field maintenance work.
Hardware Asset Management (HAM)
Tracking physical IT assets — laptops, phones, servers, monitors — through their whole life: ordered, received into a stockroom, assigned to a person, moved, and eventually retired and disposed. It answers "who has what, what did it cost, and when does it need replacing?"
Software Asset Management (SAM)
Managing software licenses and subscriptions: what you're entitled to, what you're actually using, and whether those match. It closes the gap between over-buying (wasted spend) and under-licensing (audit exposure), across on-prem software and SaaS.
Official docs: IT Asset Management ↗