Supporting Material: Software Asset Management

Software Asset Management

Software Asset Management is an ITIL® book that describes the activities involved in acquiring, providing, and maintaining IT assets. This includes everything from obtaining or building an asset until its final retirement from the infrastructure, and many other activities in that lifecycle, including rolling it out, operation and optimization, licensing and security compliance, and control of assets.

Even though it is entitled Software Asset Management, many of the same activities could also be applied to Hardware Asset Management.

Software asset management diagram

The following processes are involved in Software Asset Management:

Asset Management Activity	Process
Requirements	Asset Management Solution Requirements
Design	Asset Management Solution Analysis and Design
Build	Asset Management Solution Development and Integration
Deploy	Asset Management Release Management
Operate	Asset Management Service Execution
Optimize	Availability Management Capacity Management
Retire	Asset Management
Core	Asset Management Financial Management
Verification and Compliance	Asset Management Security Management
Relationship Management	Supplier Management