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Animus Solutions, a provider of IT asset management and service management services has announced Program Review and Executive Briefing to deliver strategic advice at a minimal cost. We also announce the addition of Walter Darrough to the leadership team. As Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Darrough will continue to advocate IT business best practices. In addition, Jenny Schuchert continues to be our Vice President of Marketing and has been promoted to also be our Vice President of Corporate Communications.

The Program Review service focuses on Policy Management, Software Asset Management, Process-to-Automation Match, Hardware Asset Management or Shelfware Evaluation. With the Animus Solutions’ methodology, experienced Animus consultants assess resources, data and systems to deliver practical best practice recommendations.

Our Executive Briefing offers executives an intense knowledge update to empower strategic planning for the business of IT. Both offerings are ideal for organizations seeking guidance with a limited budget.

BIO: Walter, has over twenty-eight years of IT experience focused on the Financial, Retail, Health Care, Energy, Government, Services and Transportation industries. Walter has extensive experience in product development, implementation, data center and back office operations. This experience provides him the necessary background to help companies advance their IT Asset Management and other business practices. Over the past several years, Walter has worked exclusively with organizations seeking to better understand the benefits of advancing their IT Asset Management practices and in developing and implementing effective ITAM strategies. Before joining Animus, Walter held the position of Knowledge Executive and Program Advisor for IAITAM. Walter holds CSAM, CHAMP and CITAM certifications from IAITAM, as well as an ITIL Foundation certificate.

“Rolling out these changes is an important statement for Animus Solutions,” stated Ms. McLachlan. “The mission for this company is to implement practical solutions through experience-rich professionals. With this leadership team, we have experience at all levels as well as a strong customer focus. I am proud to say that our services catalog is the most flexible and diverse set of offerings in our segment of the industry.”

Your company wants to go with another disposal vendor.  While reading the terms and conditions, you see that they will be charging mileage for pick-ups. 

Your company wants to move the maintenance center or consolidate.  You notice that the evaluation does not consider the extra travel time and costs to reach those centers. 

It is time to look at our evaluation criteria and make sure that we consider the energy costs, especially mileage.  Where we might have been able to ignore it in the past, the rising cost of fuel is impacting our suppliers and outsourcers.  You can be sure that they will want your company to share the burden.

RFID has been a topic of conversation in asset management at least five years, although adoption was slowed by the lack of stable standards and technical issues.  IT asset managers were often still justifying and rolling out bar coding or asset tags as a start to improved inventory and deployed asset management. Walmart’s inability to make all their suppliers use RFID and their own issues deploying the technology gave IT executives ample reason to stick with existing bar codes or to rely on what can be found electronically. After all, IT assets are mainly reportable, unlike crates of dish detergent.  Time has passed and the technology has delivered on its promise of improved inventory for some.  So, is it time to look again at this technology?  I think it is -  IF the technology has already been used elsewhere in the organization. 

If the organization has invested in RFID and is improving inventory systems to require the information, it is possible that the project will stall or lose financial advantage without multiple uses for the technology or the improved data.  Since IT asset management has the advantage of vastly reportable assets already, we are not usually the first to use this technology, but if the organization has a great deal of asset movement - especially unauthorized movement - perhaps we should change that.