As an organization expands, so also does its volume of assets. Assets management can be a daunting and challenging undertaking without the right solution. On the other hand, employing the best solution can make a real difference in terms of operational efficiency, lower costs, reduced downtime and increased employee and customer satisfaction. Tanium software suite can provide these benefits and much more. Unlike traditional asset discovery and inventory tools, Tanium creates and maintains a comprehensive and accurate inventory of the endpoint environment in real-time, is resilient to changes in the IT ecosystem and can find and identify hidden assets. Here are some reasons to opt for Tanium
Discover Hidden Assets
Most traditional IT inventory tools can’t find the details of every devices and asset in an organization, and if they do, they can’t identify everything they find. Hence, they feed outdated data to data stores like CMDB. With Tanium asset discovery and inventory tools, you can rest assured that all asset inventory data fed to your CMDB are accurate and up-to-date. Tanium was built to operate effectively in dynamic, distributed environments. On the first installation, Tanium typically uncovers the details of 10-20% more endpoints than organizations knew were in their environment, including hardware, configurations, software installed, and usage data.
Collects Data in Real-time
Another reason to choose Tanium solution is its ability to continuously monitor assets within the IT environment, using each endpoint acting as an individual sensor. By maintaining consistent visibility into managed and unmanaged devices, Tanium offers a current, accurate inventory of hardware and software assets across the environment, empowering other Tanium workflows or enriching existing data stores such as a CMDB.
Full Visibility
Tanium offers IT operations and asset managers an up-to-date picture of their hardware and the software that is on them, so they always have an accurate view of what is in their ecosystem. In fact, the first feature many customers observe after deploying Tanium is how easy it is to gain full visibility into their endpoint environment. Without holistic visibility, there is no sure way of determining the complete inventory of assets in a given location(s) and track critical asset data. In short, it will be incredibly difficult to make smart asset-related decisions without knowing what you already have in place and where everything is.
Improves Change Management
Change implementation is a common source of risk for many organizations. When a deployed change affects systems in an unexpected way, it can lead to service outages that adversely impact the business. To revert back to a stable and functional environment, organizations often initiate emergency change protocols. But with Tanium, change managers can visualize and understand assets interdependencies within the environment and anticipate which users, systems, software, and those configuration items could be affected by an upcoming change, thereby reducing the risk of outages.
Offers a Unified Asset Environment
While most traditional asset discovery and inventory tools are fragmented, require multiple point solutions, and overburden network connections. Tanium leverages an architecture with a single point and unified platform that ensures the visibility, control and inventory of all organizational assets. By performing all critical actions through a unified console, this software dramatically reduces network strain and bandwidth requirements.
Conclusion
Forward-thinking companies who opt for Tanium software can significantly reduce the frustration and difficulties associated with IT asset visibility and inventory. With the present realities of modern computing environments where devices come and go from the network, employees bring their own devices to work, and applications are moving to varied on- and off-premises cloud environments, it becomes challenging for current discovery and inventory tools to keep track. Hence the need for an advanced solution like Tanium.
