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by oldandtired
1082 days ago
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Unfortunately, both shelf and snipe are limited asset management systems that do not cover the broader asset management situations and issues. Having worked in asset management at one time, the field has some quite difficult aspects that are often missed by these relatively simple systems. I am not disparaging what either of these systems do. There is a lot of time and effort that has been put into them. However, full blown asset management is a much bigger area than most people understand or have built systems for. One asset class that can act as a test case for any asset management system that you might like to try your hand at building is a multi-story multi-use building. Once you get into the weeds on this one, you begin to see just how complex asset management is. One feature of asset management is the oft forgotten maintenance sequences and forecasting of maintenance and refurbishment. A number of other comments here have commented on such aspects |
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1. Separates, but inter-connect the Asssets and CI. An asset will never change during its lifecycle. A CI is the actual configuration(s) of an asset. It could be a simple laptop (asset) with a standard OS (CI, one-to-one relationship), or it could be a server (asset) with multiple virtual machines (CI, one-to-many relationship)
2. Will handle the entire lifecycle of the equipment.
3. Will be an integral part of the purchasing, receiving and decommission process.
4. Will allow you to predict and plan the replacement of old assets with a high level of confidence.
The product presented by OP only touches a sliver of what asset management is. For some it might be just enough, but most don't realize how complex it can become.