Let’s Embrace Good Asset Management Technologies

In the past few years, I have written a few articles about “Bad Asset Management Technologies”. The first one was written in 2014, “Let’s Not Put up with Bad Asset Management Technologies”.  In 2014, our company just entered in the business of providing innovative solutions for asset management, and that article certainly stirred a lot of debates and received a lot of attentions as well. Later, I published an update on this topic in 2016.

As our business has grown, the market has also evolved. As I am reflecting on the evolving market in the past few years, I want to write another update on this topic. This time, rather than focusing on “bad asset management technologies”, I want to share my views on what “good asset management technologies” should be. I hope more and more businesses can start to embrace “Good Asset Management Technologies”.

So here is my list:

1.     Using a Cloud-Based Software as a Service Asset Management Solution Supported by  an Annual Subscription Payment Model

2.     Using Mobile Phones to Make Auditing Inventory Easier and More Convenient

3.     Facilitate Easy “Checkout and Check In” of Assets, with Signature Capture and Email Approvals Outside of the Application

4.     Support Different Barcode Types and Rules

5.     Use Straightforward, Self-Generated Templates to Import Asset Data

6.     Ability to Import Asset History

7.     Ability for Users to Configure and Update Workflow Rules

8.     Intuitive Admin Tools That Enable Users to Change Software Options and Set Up Roles/Permissions for Users

9.     Stop Pretending that IT Service Management Solutions Can Meet the Needs for Managing IT Assets

10.  Connect to ERP Systems, Enabling Full Lifecycle Management of Physical Assets

To understand how these technologies can help you be more efficient, you can go to our website (www.e-isg.com) for more details. You can also watch some videos too.