Asset management (ASMG)
The management of the inventory of IT assets (hardware, software, network and user knowledge) held within an organisation, aiming to optimise the total cost of ownership, by minimising operating costs, improving investment decisions and capitalising on potential opportunities.
Level 5 Controls IT assets in one or more significant areas, ensuring that administration of the acquisition, storage, distribution, movement and disposal of assets are carried out. Produces and analyses registers and histories of authorised assets and verifies that all these assets (including secure master copies of software, documentation, data, licenses and agreements for supply, warranty and maintenance) are in a known state and location and that there are no unauthorised assets such as unlicensed copies of software.
Level 6 Promotes the continuing economic and effective provision of services, ensuring that all changes to assets and services are appropriately and accurately controlled and recorded. Provides information and advice on issues such as maintenance of hardware assets, licensing of software and legal obligations such as compliance with the Data Protection Act. Promotes awareness of and commitment to asset control, ensuring that the consequences of decisions to obtain, change or continue the possession or use of an asset, system or service are appropriately understood.