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• Your company just made a major acquisition. How do you best identify the information technology (IT) infrastructure of the acquired company and integrate it into the existing enterprise?

• A software company has initiated an audit of your licenses. Are you confident in the location of all your assets that may have this company’s software?

• Your IT lease schedule is coming due and assets need to be returned to the vendor. How competently can you pull these assets together and account for any that may be missing?

IT and telecommunications (telecom) assets represent a major capital outlay – typically peripheral to a company’s core business but critical to its operations. A sound IT asset management plan predicated on an accurate inventory helps with ROI by supporting sound procurement strategies, maximizing asset utilization, streamlining support services, providing better asset security protocols and facilitating end-of-life (or lease) decisions.

When it comes to IT and telecom assets, having a detailed, high-quality fixed asset record is essential and the first step in any qualified and coordinated asset management initiative.

American Appraisal can help American Appraisal is an industry leader in IT and telecom asset inventory services. Our consultants combine certified Project Management Professional (PMP)® skills and advanced technological tools that enable precise data collection within corporate, technological, manufacturing and healthcare environments. We actively participate in the development and implementation of our clients’ asset management initiatives.

Our IT and telecom asset inventory services enable our clients to:

• Reduce implementation costs of technology deployments and service maintenance

• Perform platform consolidation and unification • Improve IT service management, help desk and general support

• Establish better overall life cycle asset management processes from procurement to retirement

• Facilitate software compliance enhancement and reporting

• Augment lease administration and reporting and reduce lease termination penalties

• Support IT business decisions for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

• Increase confidence in meeting internal and external audit requirements

• Enhance depreciation and write-off reporting for accounting, tax and departmental chargebacks

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Track, manage and secure the critical assets that keep your organization operating

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• Increase data integrity for ERP and other critical business systems/databases

• Upgrade procurement, accounting and departmental chargeback activities

• Increase ROI on asset retirement/disposition and maximize utilization of existing assets

• Obtain accurate data for valuation, financial reconciliation, insurance placement and risk management purposes

• Implement better security protocols around company hardware and data

Services and methodologiesWe provide:

• Customized, comprehensive inventory/audit of all IT/telecom assets, including detailed barcode and RFID asset tagging and tracking, and association of asset data to end users and their locations

• Personalized services including enterprise-wide inventory, data center inventory, book-to-floor/floor-to-book inventory, data reconciliation to legacy files, cycle inventory, internal discovery/software discovery, RFID tagging, digital photos, site survey, financial reconciliation and valuation

• Experienced and certified project management resources, including on- and off-site quality assurance processes and daily/weekly status reporting

• Dedicated due diligence and planning phase, proof of concept pilot, detailed Statement of Work and project plan development

• Data integrity SLAs with proper detail to support valuable analysis and with centralized data quality processing and conversion

• Tailored Web-based inventory campaign for remote users and remote sites

• Timely data delivery, status reporting and project schedule management

Our credentials • Since 1994, our consultants have inventoried more than 20 million IT assets in over 70 countries and audited in excess of 15,000 wireless cell sites nationwide.

• IT and telecom asset inventory services is a core competency with a dedicated project management staff focused exclusively on this service.

• Our IT and telecom asset inventory consultants utilize certified PMP® methodologies. Our project management resources enable us to complete inventory projects in defined and concise time frames and within budget.

• American Appraisal is a provider member of the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM)®.

• We understand and anticipate the political and workplace issues associated with IT and telecom inventory engagements. Our procedures minimize disruption and maximize efficiency.