Many asset managers rely on industry analyst advice to find the way. Some attend industry events, such as the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers conference and the Gartner IT and Software Asset Management Summit. Gartner's advice, while always sound, has cycled over the years among Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Return On Investment (ROI), the need for best practices and linking asset management to a Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB). Still, little has changed over the 10-year existence of the Gartner summit. Today, asset management is finally getting awareness, but it is doing so under the relationship being built around the CMDB as part of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
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