ICL and Severn Trent Systems (STS) are have joined forces to build a work and asset management system for the utilities sector. The two companies combined ICL's asset repository and STS's StormSTM work management system in a project for UK-based...
Stephen Stewart, the project's manager at Scottish Power, said: "Scottish Power is leading the way in asset management in the utility industry. The contract is part of the utility's ongoing, £6m project to eliminate paper-based reporting on assets...
He warned: "The question is this: how do you convince people to register everything - right down to their PalmPilots and mobiles - so that the IT department can be in control of the equipment? IT directors need to take control of their companies...
An asset register might be the solution to this problem. Might I be safer on this route if Network Rail, the successor to Railtrack, spends a lot of money to implement an asset register so that it can know the state of the track?
But worse still, businesses are riddled with a culture whereby CIOs are damned if they do and damned if they don't tighten up on asset management, with one senior IT boss warning his peers walk a fine line of inefficiency on one hand and being...
Symantec has announced plans to acquire IT management software company Altiris, in a deal valued at approximately $830m. Altiris develops software designed to manage and configure corporate assets, such as laptops, mobile devices and servers, in...