Use Case

Optimize Software and Hardware Assets with Unified Asset Intelligence

Boost productivity and reduce your total cost of ownership by gaining complete visibility into everything you govern. Understand exactly what assets you have, which ones are actively in use and where value is being lost.

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Build asset intelligence with trusted asset data

Most organizations manage assets they can’t fully see, like overprovisioned licenses, aging hardware consuming budget and unmanaged devices outside the inventory. The main culprit is your data. From desktops to laptops, printers to smartphones, your users need these devices and the software on them to perform their jobs effectively. At the same time, it's your job to optimize your IT assets’ performance while reducing costs. You need an IT asset management solution that makes your assets work harder for you.

Automatic discovery

Automatically discover every hardware and software asset connected to your environment — managed and unmanaged — using active scanning, passive detection and third-party data connectors. Asset records are continuously updated within the Ivanti Neurons Platform, ensuring your inventory reflects reality rather than a point-in-time snapshot.

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Software inventory

Optimize software portfolio investments with usage insights. Gain visibility into software inventory, application usage and software spending from a centralized view. Identify underused applications, support renewal planning and make more informed decisions about software investments across your organization.

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Minimize downtime

Extend hardware lifecycle with trusted, real-time data. Track every hardware asset from procurement to retirement with financial, contractual and warranty context built in. Understand refresh cycles before they become failures, prioritize replacements based on business criticality and make lifecycle decisions backed by trusted, continuously updated data.

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Automated workflows

Automate lifecycle workflows from day one. With automated provisioning, deprovisioning and asset reassignment workflows, new hires are ready on day one and offboarded employees don't walk away with company resources. Platform automation enforces lifecycle policy consistently, without manual intervention at each step.

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Features and capabilities

Maximize software and hardware asset value with asset intelligence

Trusted asset data from the Ivanti Neurons platform gives IT and finance teams the insight they need to maximize the value of every hardware and software investment, reducing waste, improving decisions, and staying audit-ready without adding tools or manual effort.

Software management

Monitor and manage license allocation across your environment. Ensure compliance and support informed decisions about renewals, upgrades or retirements.

Unified view

Whether managing software, hardware, server, client, virtual, physical or cloud assets, Ivanti IT asset management affords you a single, complete view of your ITAM position.

Software usage governance

Track and analyze active software installations and usage patterns. Make data-driven choices on license distribution and policy enforcement.

Hardware optimization

Get detailed hardware status information throughout the lifecycle, including information like refresh schedules, maintenance and hardware requirements for software.

Relationship mapping

Understand how assets are connected to each other and the business services they support for better decision-making, impact analysis and faster incident resolution.

Lifecycle tracking

Effortlessly connect to external procurement systems to provide necessary data such as asset birth records, warranty and support information, contracts and more, creating a complete record from acquisition to retirement.

FAQ

What is asset intelligence?

Asset intelligence is the foundation of your system of record for asset, endpoint and configuration across IT and security. It answers the questions that matter most: what you have, what's actively in use and where value is being lost.

With real-time visibility spanning every environment, asset intelligence drives intelligent automation, accelerates risk response and powers cost optimization decisions. Predictive analytics move your team from reactive firefighting to proactive management, so IT becomes a strategic enabler, not a bottleneck. When your asset data is trusted, every decision that depends on it is, too. 

How does asset intelligence improve software and hardware asset management?

Static repositories tell you what you had. Asset intelligence tells you what you have right now. Asset records are continuously updated, ensuring your inventory reflects reality rather than a point-in-time snapshot that's already out of date the once it is taken.

Every software inventory decision, hardware refresh and asset compliance check is grounded in verified, current data rather than estimates or assumptions. The shift from guesswork to certainty is what turns asset management from an administrative burden into a competitive advantage. Your teams gain the confidence to act decisively, backed by a trusted, continuously updated asset foundation they can depend on. 

How can asset intelligence support IT asset optimization?

From procurement to retirement, asset intelligence gives you complete financial, contractual and warranty context for every hardware asset across your estate. Refresh cycles are no longer discovered when a device fails; they're anticipated, planned and prioritized before they become disruptions. 

With continuously updated lifecycle data, you can make smarter replacement decisions based on real business criticality rather than gut feel or reactive incident reports. IT leaders gain the visibility to optimize resource allocation, avoid unnecessary spend and ensure the right assets are in the right hands at the right time, all backed by data you can trust. 

What data is needed to create trusted asset intelligence?

Truly trusted asset intelligence requires comprehensive, connected data from across your environment. That means agentless and agent-based discovery for complete coverage, cloud infrastructure discovery spanning AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and SaaS application discovery to eliminate shadow IT blind spots. Software usage data surfaces installation visibility and informs procurement decisions, while detailed hardware configuration data supports compliance and capacity planning. User and ownership attribution ties every asset to a person and a cost center, giving you accountability, not just inventory. 

Ivanti brings all this together on a single platform, adding automated compliance monitoring and reporting against industry frameworks. Complete asset intelligence isn't just about knowing what you have; it's about knowing the status, risk and entire lifecycle context of each asset. 

How does asset intelligence help organizations reduce software and hardware costs?

Wasted IT spend is one of the most persistent, most preventable challenges IT leaders face today. Asset intelligence directly addresses it. Installation data and purchasing history give procurement and IT teams the context they need to make informed renewal decisions, consolidating or retiring software that shows low adoption or duplicate coverage.  

 It cuts hardware costs with full lifecycle automation that spans procurement, stock management, provisioning and retirement, enabling sophisticated inventory control that eliminates overprovisioning and unnecessary purchases. When every asset decision is backed by real utilization data and lifecycle context, your organization stops paying for what you don't use and starts investing in what drives the business forward. 

Put trusted asset intelligence to work

When asset data is trusted, current and unified, every investment decision gets sharp, and every optimization opportunity becomes visible. The Ivanti Neurons Platform is your foundation for shared services, data and integration.