According to industry experts, organizations that systematically manage the life cycle of their IT assets will reduce the cost per asset by as much as 30% in the first year alone. Yet today, many organizations have little or no insight into exactly what assets they own, let alone how they can optimize assets throughout their life cycle, from requisition to disposal. The same holds true for major IT investments.

This paper discusses CA IT Asset Management, a way to identify and consolidate costs across assets to plan spending better and increase the reliability of the budgeting process.