IT Asset Management
(Cloud)
There are four kinds of enterprise group in
IT Asset Management:
- Corporate unit
- Location
- Cost center
- Category.
Each of these four kinds is available as a dimension for your custom reports, present in
common in both the
Installation analysis and the
Consumption
analysis. This allows you to segment either application installation numbers or
license consumption numbers across various kinds of enterprise groups, as best fits your
corporate approach to group management.
Tip: Keep in mind that the numbers quoted
for each enterprise group are "rolled up totals": that is, they are the total for all the
children of this group, plus any local value for the group itself. For example, consider
this simplified location hierarchy (each row being the only child of the one above) with the
local installation counts of a particular application as shown. Each location then
shows the rolled-up total installation values given in the third column:
Location |
Local installations |
Rolled-up total shown |
North America HQ |
12 |
55 |
North-west Region Office |
10 |
43 |
Chicago Office |
33 |
33 |
In reality, the rolling up of totals is more complex, since any high-level
enterprise group is likely to have many peer children, each of which has many peer children,
and so on down through the tree.
In the case of the
Consumption analysis (only), as well as the basic
enterprise groups that you may use to analyze consumption across different groups, there is a
second set of the same groups with a slightly different naming convention:
- Corporate unit (from license)
- Location (from license)
- Cost center (from license)
- Category (from license).
These identify the same kinds of groups, but in this case as an attribute of the license
itself, identifying any relationship between the license and enterprise groups established on
the
Ownership tab of the license properties.
The presence of enterprises groups in these two ways, both tracking the ownership of
the license and separately segmenting the consumption of the same license, allow you to
probe scenarios such as licenses that you thought were assigned to one group being consumed
elsewhere (which means the license was over-assigned to the first group, and has spare
capacity).
Each of the enterprise group dimensions expands to show a tree hierarchy with maximum depth
of 10 levels of child groups of the same kind. Each level is identified in the group's label,
such as Location - level 3.
At each level, each corporate group has only a single attribute available:
Table 1. Attribute for the enterprise group dimensions, at each of the 10 levels
Attribute |
Notes |
Enterprise group name
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The name of each Corporate unit, Location, Cost center, or Category, as displayed in the label
(in place of the Enterprise group placeholder).
Related management view: The name of each enterprise group is available
wherever groups are included in management views within IT Asset Management.
The details are maintained in the listing for each enterprise group, where you may expand the hierarchy to any focus point, and either
click the + icon to add a new child, or click the edit
(pencil) icon to modify the name of an existing group.
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