IT asset management

To ensure ongoing success of IT asset management initiatives, such as software collaboration and reuse, project teams need to clearly define strategies and to find the right tools. IBM Rational IT asset management software provides you with proven, industry-leading tools and methodologies necessary for the effective management, control, and protection of your software assets throughout all stages of their life cycle.

These IT asset management solutions address typical challenges faced by software development project teams such as:

• Starting a reuse initiative to take advantage of and to manage change to existing intellectual property.
• Getting a comprehensive view of the inventory of existing assets across diverse sets of projects.
• Outsourcing development and providing secure, distributed access to assets.
• Meeting global compliance and governance mandates.
• Starting an initiative to introduce a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and executing on it successfully.

Whatever the scenario, IBM Rational IT asset management solutions and best practices expertise help you to:

• Reduce development time and cost by implementing an easily accessible, flexible, and reusable IT asset management repository with proven methodologies.
• Unify disparate teams, eliminate rework, and improve architectural integrity with a collaborative and secure asset traceability and utilization monitoring platform.
• Lower costs and reduce compliance complexity through secure intellectual property sharing.
• Improve governance through discovery and federated search across the SOA life cycle.

IBM provides tools to assist you in discovering, developing, and deploying software assets and services across the life cycle. Explore the following IT asset management products for more details.