Special Issue on IT Asset Management
Submission Deadline: 1 January 2010
Publication: July/August 2010
How are you managing your IT assets in these tight economic times? What are your company's best practices for joining financial, contractual, and inventory functions to support IT life-cycle management and strategic decision making? What are you doing to manage your IT resources intelligently?
The goals of IT asset management (ITAM) are to uncover savings through process improvement, support strategic decision making, gain control of and manage inventory, and reduce risk through standardization and loss detection. What are your companies' goals for ITAM, and how are you implementing them?
The July/August issue of IT Professional will focus on ITAM. We'd like to know what you are doing in this fast-growing, critical area. We welcome case studies, articles on best practices, experience reports, and research summaries addressing the questions posed here and others relating to ITAM. Potential ITAM topic areas include
- Strategic sourcing
- Tracking of hardware and software assets
- Protection of assets
- Policies and procedures
- Institutionalizing assets
- Operational efficiencies
- License management
- Standardization
- Compliance to regulatory and legal restrictions
- Contractual compliances
- Role of ITAM in an organization
- Total cost of ownership
- PC life-cycle management
- IT asset consolidation
- Software distribution
- Server and application virtualization
Feature articles should be no longer than 3,500 words (with tables and figures counting as 200 words). Illustrations are welcome. For author guidelines, visit www.computer.org/itpro/author.htm.
Questions?
For information about the theme, contact the Guest Editors:
- Linda Wilbanks, National Nuclear Security Administration, US Department of Energy
- Reza Djavanshir, Johns Hopkins University
- Morris Chang, Iowa State University