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IBM and 3 Step IT to deliver complete IT Asset Management solution
 

IBM Global Financing and 3 Step IT offer industry unique total financing and asset management throughout the entire lifecycle of the IT assets.

The question of how to reduce Total Cost of Ownership and optimize the usage of IT assets has been on most CFOs and CIOs agenda the last couple of years. The increased demand for Return on Investments and the challenge of decreasing the IT budget are challenging for most CIOs today.

IBM Global Financing is proud to announce a partnership with the international company 3 Step IT. A partnership that will help customers get control of their IT assets and significantly reduce the Total Cost of Ownership. 3 Step IT's business idea is to facilitate professional management of the entire lifecycle of IT equipment. 3 Step IT was founded in Finland in 1997 and today have an annual turnover of 130 Million Euros. The company is rated as AAA. With almost 200.000 leased units in their portfolio, 3 Step IT have a very strong position in the Finnish market and are ready to grow in the rest of the Nordic region.

Gartner Group identifies the issue:
'The days when IT asset management was little more than an accounting exercise are over. IT asset management has become a core management practice, Compliance issues, the need for accountability to management and heightened cost concerns have transformed IT asset management into a critical, next-level business discipline.'

(Gartner Group 'What You Need to Know to Take IT Asset Management to the Next Level' by Jack Heine Dec 12 2005)

Gartner research also shows that CIOs are spending more and more on depreciation and amortization of fixed assets, and less on new capability development.

What we offer:
Acquiring IT and managing existing systems can often be complex, time consuming and involve a number of suppliers. There are many questions to consider and address.
For the CIO it can be questions such as;

  • What assets do we have,
  • Where are the assets,
  • What configurations do we have and
  • Are we utilizing the number of software licenses we have

Many of today's Asset Management systems focus only on the technical side of the issue. 3 Step IT's solution combines the technical side with the financial data and helps the CFO answer questions like;
  • What is the cost of the asset -How are we using the software licenses we are paying for?
  • How should we book depriciations? etc.

3 Step IT's Asset Management solution allows the customer, via a secure, easy on-line application, to get the full picture of the IT equipment, combining up-to-date financial and technical data: physical location, configuration, software licences and usage, but also details about cost centre split. Access to all this information in one place helps lower the Total Cost of Ownership significantly.

When it is time to dispose of the current assets and invest in new, one critical point is erasing sensitive data. IGF and 3 Step IT offers a wide range of offerings within this area compliant to security standards. Data can be cleaned by approved technology on site, in front of management or it can be collected, packed and shipped to a central warehouse for data cleansing.

So now IBM Global Financing can package a market leading Asset Management solution with our best of breed financing products to create a Total Lifecycle Management solution.