CHAPTER 3

Starting Pragmatic ITAM: Phase one

Discovery Source Alignment

Nearly every IT asset management project starts with a messy dataset and a lot of unknowns. With the right methodology, your ITAM team can turn even the ugliest data into a thing of beauty and keep it that way. Information about your IT assets will be verifiably accurate and inarguable, even by the most aggressive auditor.

That’s our goal with Pragmatic ITAM.

We’d all love to start at the end, with ironclad data and a fully realized ITAM report, but we also know that’s far from realistic. Pragmatic ITAM takes the advice of Vizzini, and goes back to the beginning: we start with discovery.1

By the end of this section, you will learn:

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