Find Value With Cloud Asset Management | Info-Tech Research Group

Spending on cloud platforms and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is growing, and with spending comes waste.
The barriers are drastically lower for purchasing SaaS and cloud services as compared to traditional IT components.
Skills gap: IT asset managers tend not to have the skills to optimize spending on cloud platforms.
New space, new tools: The IT asset management market space is still developing cloud asset management and SaaS management capabilities. Practitioners must rely on cloud optimization tools in the meantime.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

IT asset managers are uniquely suited to provide value here. They already optimize costs and manage assets.
Scope creep is a killer. Focus first on your highest value, highest risk cloud instances.
Don’t completely centralize. Central oversight is powerful, but outsource some responsibility to the business.

Impact and Result

Introduce governance: Work with developers, power business users, and infrastructure groups to define a governance approach to cloud assets and to SaaS.
Standardize high-impact, low-effort cloud services: Focus your efforts where they will have the most value and in places where you can provide early value.
Update your processes: Ensure that your asset registers and your configuration management database is up to date when cloud assets are provisioned and quiesced.

Find Value With Cloud Asset Management Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should implement IT asset management for cloud instances and SaaS, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Find Value With Cloud Asset Management – Executive Brief

1. Define cloud asset management

Define when a cloud instance is an asset, and what it means for the asset to be managed.

2. Build cloud asset management practices

Develop an approach to auditing and optimizing cloud assets.

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Guided Implementation 1: CAM definition

Call 1: Review Info-Tech’s perspective on CAM.
Call 2: Discuss opportunities for CAM.

Guided Implementation 2: CAM processes

Call 1: Discuss high-opportunity cloud instances and SaaS offerings.
Call 2: Discuss practices and audit approaches.

Guided Implementation 3: CAM roadmap

Call 1: Discuss tools and vendors.
Call 2: Build a scope for a pilot.
Call 3: Discuss longer-term opportunities.

Author

Ken Weston

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