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SFIA Skill

Asset management ASMG

The management of the lifecycle for service assets (hardware, software, knowledge, warranties etc) including inventory, compliance, usage and disposal, aiming to optimise the total cost of ownership by minimising operating costs, improving investment decisions and capitalising on potential opportunities. Knowledge and use of international standards such as ISO/IEC 19770-1 for software asset management and close integration with change and configuration management are examples of enhanced asset management development.

Asset management: 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 consequences of decisions to obtain, change or continue the possession or use of an asset, system or service are appropriately understood.

Asset management: Level 5

Manages and maintains the service compliance of all IT and service assets in line with business and regulatory requirements involving knowledge of financial and technical processes, tools and techniques thereby ensuring asset controllers, infrastructure teams and the business co-ordinate and maximise value, maintain control and ensure any necessary legal compliance.

Asset management: Level 4

Controls IT assets in one or more significant areas, ensuring that administration of the acquisition, storage, distribution, movement and disposal of assets is carried out. Produces and analyses registers and histories of authorised assets (including secure master copies of software, documentation, data, licenses and agreements for supply, warranty and maintenance), and verifies that all these assets are in a known state and location. Ensures that there are no unauthorised assets such as unlicensed copies of software.