Asset management, broadly defined, refers to any system that monitors and maintains things of value to an entity or group. It may apply to both tangible assets such as buildings and to intangible assets such as human capital, intellectual property, and goodwill and financial assets. Asset management is a systematic process of deploying, operating, maintaining, upgrading, and disposing of assets cost-effectively.
Snipe-IT is a Free Open Source (FOSS) project for IT asset management, to enable IT departments to track who has which laptop, when it was purchased, which software licenses and accessories are available, and so on.
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GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration- Interface. You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, software, printers...). It has enhanced functions to make the daily life for the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-system with mail-notification and methods to build a database with basic information about your network-topology.
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Open Computers and Software Inventory Next Generation ( OCS NG ) is a technical management solution of IT assets. Since 2001, OCS Inventory NG tries to make the automated inventory of computer hardware more efficient. Today, our solution not only extends to the inventory. It includes a sophisticated deployment system, interfacing with third tier applications, a network devices scans, and more...
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FusionInventory acts like a gateway and collect information sent by the agents. It will create or update the information in GLPI it minimal effort from the administrator. For now, these class of devices are supported:
- Computers
- Network devices
- Printers
- Virtual machines
- Android phone
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