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The Gorilla Guide to IT asset management

In arriving at an accurate and current understanding of assets, licensing and subscription costs, and ownership or responsibility for an unexpected or unaccounted for item, organizations often find themselves confronting major gotchas.

These could include:

  • Wasted spending
  • Unnecessary and avoidable risks
  • Manual process drag
  • Investment inefficiencies
  • And more.

Smarter approaches to asset management addresses all these gotchas; download this Gorilla Guide e-book to find out how.

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