Asset Management

Asset management is a complex issue that requires tribal knowledge to expertly navigate. Extropy thought leaders understand the interworking of Asset Management and can identify solutions to best solve your requirements.

 

There are many vendor and technology solutions available for asset management. Understanding which solutions will allow you to manage the entire life cycle of your assets, reduce unnecessary hardware and software upgrades, and provide a ubiquitous management structure of those assets, will aid you in reducing CAPEX and OPEX investments.

 

Extropy experts will work with your team to identify your goals, define requirements and identify the solutions that will best fit your business needs. Our consultants have developed unique knowledge over years of engagements dealing with many vendor solutions and will work with you as a trusted partner.

 

SOLUTION ELEMENTS

Our solutions vary based on your needs, but common elements of these solutions and their deliverables are:

Workshops

Extropy will conduct workshops with your teams to understand what your business needs are and to build a consensus around goals, requirements and governance frame works as they relate to asset management.

     Deliverables:

  • Requirements Definition Document

  • Business Case Development

  • Risk assessment and Gap analysis


 

 

Discovery

During discovery Extropy will conduct an inventory of your assets including identifying dependencies and a data map of your applications.

     Deliverables:

  • Asset Inventory Report/database

  • Map of all port connections

  • Rack Elevations

  • Data Application Dependency Map

  • Bar Coded ID tag on all physical Assets


 

 

System Design

Once there is a good understanding of the requirements, goals, and assets currently in place Extropy will work with your team to design a system encompassing people, process, and technology. Extropy can help you develop and review RFI’s and RFP’s and complete a comprehensive vendor selection process. Taking the best vendors solutions, Extropy experts will work with your team and the vendors to develop final system designs and review orders.

     Deliverables:

  • RF/I/Q/P creation and vendor response management

  • RF/I/Q/P evaluation documents

  • Business Case inputs

  • Risk analysis

  • Design drawings and documentation

  • Vendor design review

  • High level Project/Implementation plan

  • Process and Governance framework inputs


 

 

Deployment

Deploying your new system may require a lot of moving parts and careful integration planning. Extropy will develop the detailed designs necessary for deployment of your new systems, detailed integration plans to mitigate risk, manage any Proof of Concepts required, physically install solutions, and integrate those solutions into your overall architecture.

     Deliverables:

  • Detailed project plan

  • Detailed designs and documentation

  • Risk mitigation and contingency plans

  • Staging and Proof of Concept

  • Physical installation of equipment

  • Re-tagging assets with new solution (eg RFID)

  • Integration of solution

  • Initial database population


 

 

Operations

Asset management requires maintenance and due diligence. Setting up any system and entering all the data will give you a good look at a snap shot in time of your assets. However, the power of good asset management comes when that snap shot can be taken accurately in real time anytime after installation. This requires solid governance, cultural buy in, training, and clear objectives.

     Deliverables:

  • Hand off of asset management system to operations

  • Training of operations personnel with new system

  • Train the trainer sessions with your personnel responsible for training any end users

  • Integration with any additional network or asset monitoring tools


 

 

Partner with the thought leaders at Extropy and turn complex Asset Management into powerful real time knowledge