To you IT professionals in medium to large size businesses

[JS80]

A) is your IT dept responsible for tracking all the hardware?

2) do you guys use software to track it? do you guys tag it? or just use excel spreadsheet?

Edit: We have approx 100 employees

 

[Kaido]

I work at a small business, but for medium-sized to large-sized businesses I'd recommend the Belarc Advisor products:

http://www.belarc.com/products.html

 

[Feldenak]

I'm writing my own.

 

[tommigsr]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I work at a small business, but for medium-sized to large-sized businesses I'd recommend the Belarc Advisor products:

http://www.belarc.com/products.html

even for a small business, what do you use to track assets...my excel sheet isn't cutting it anymore

 

[spidey07]

I believe peregrine and remedy own this area.

 

[archcommus]

Do not use an Excel spreadsheet, you'll regret it later on down the road. Just set up a simple database.

 

[Ramma2]

Numara Track-IT

 

[DivideBYZero]

Remedy Asset.

<---Works for BMC, I had to say that

 

[DivideBYZero]

PS: 100 employees is small.

 

[FrequencyX]

Originally posted by: Ramma2
Numara Track-IT

:thumbsup:
Track-it 7 Enterprise Edition here

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: tommigsr

Originally posted by: Kaido
I work at a small business, but for medium-sized to large-sized businesses I'd recommend the Belarc Advisor products:

http://www.belarc.com/products.html

even for a small business, what do you use to track assets...my excel sheet isn't cutting it anymore

Use an Access db.

Custom table, custom form, custom queries, custom reports... but a very standard product.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: archcommus
Do not use an Excel spreadsheet, you'll regret it later on down the road. Just set up a simple database.

Or an Atrium? CMDB.

 

[BornStar]

I just set up my own database. All of our devices are already tagged by the manufacturer so I just use that to track them. We have about 70 employees.

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Originally posted by: spidey07
I believe peregrine and remedy own this area.

Yup.

We have over 50k users.

 

[MaxDepth]

Large business -
a) we have a service vendor (Siemens) that tracks desktop and datacenter (server envrionments) as two different realms. The additional area is networking.

b) have no clue what they use. We use Cognos to pull SAP data from our manufacturing plant hardware assets

 

[gsellis]

Tivoli and SMS

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: gsellis
Tivoli and SMS

Marimba > SMS.

 

[Pastore]

In my little company I use MouseWorks (50 employees). Works for what it is. Hardware, software, and trouble ticket tracking all in one.

 

[Electric Amish]

My side of IT uses an Excel spread sheet. We only track about 70 or so systems. I'm still waiting for the Client Services side (they track everything that I don't) of IT to put something better together.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Take a look at Take a look at Magic.

Aimed direct at SMB's.

 

[GeekDrew]

At my last job, we managed IT inventory using a homebrew Access database. It did exactly what we needed it to do, and cost us nothing outright.

We had perhaps 250 full-time employees, but that's not really a valid scale of equipment IMHO... we probably had somewhere around 5000-6000 devices we tracked.

 

[saxophonoia]

I've used an Access database in the past that worked well. Now I'm using Magic to keep track of everything.

 

[wheresmybacon]

We have over 5,000 machines and we use Remedy.

Within the region I'm in we also have a large spreadsheet we reference, but ultimately Remedy is gospel.

 

[Shortcut]

3 interns and a cat o' nine tails

 

[bunker]

I set up a database and had one of our developers make up a nice front end for me.

EDIT: This is for about 35 servers and 70 desktops plus software.