One man army

havokovah · 2014-08-15T12:15:25.000Z

I recently started at a company and i am the entire IT department with one IT consultant as my supervisor/director. He is great but hes only in the building for three hours per day. Long story short i walked into an interesting situation. My predecessor did a whole lot of nothing and that includes maintaining the asset database. The database that is used is not only overly complicated but its in worse shape than kirstie alley after her 9th divorce. I am looking for a easy to use asset database. If it could export to excel that would be awesome. Also looking for any pointers on how to really get this position on lock and some things can be doing to really get My one man army of an IT dpt looking its best.

ryanluna · 2014-08-15T12:18:30.000Z

I’ve heard about this asset database program called Spiceworks. Not sure if you know about it, but I’ve read it’s good. Sorry, I don’t know where to get it from.

lol

pbourne · 2014-08-15T12:18:35.000Z

Why not spiceworks?

timfrench · 2014-08-15T12:19:49.000Z

^^^ lol

techguy75 · 2014-08-15T12:20:20.000Z

Bournestar:

Why not spiceworks?

ssmart · 2014-08-15T12:22:42.000Z

Man from out of town walks into bar. Asks where he can go to get a drink. /facepalm

Joking aside, Spiceworks man!

pbourne · 2014-08-15T12:27:39.000Z

beat me to it I was doing this

bobmccoy · 2014-08-15T12:30:28.000Z

I’m detecting a trend here.

ashleylewis · 2014-08-15T12:32:58.000Z

Spiceworks / PDQ Inventory

pbourne · 2014-08-15T12:34:03.000Z

Seriously though this is one of the things Spiceworks is best at. Once you have inventoried your network using the automatic scanning you can update and manage manual assets with cost and purchase information.

There is an integrated Purchasing system that can do RFQs and you can tie heldesk requests to assets.

codyherb · 2014-08-15T12:49:38.000Z

Hey i heard about this great ticketing / inventory system called Spiceworks. We’ve actually been using it for quite some time and are thoroughly pleased! You may want to read about it here: http://www.spiceworks.com/

Kevin-Keutmann · 2014-08-15T12:54:17.000Z

Troll? Maybe he means something else?

techguy75 · 2014-08-15T13:02:31.000Z

to be perfectly honest Bournestar I kinda like yours better

jpcouillard · 2014-08-15T13:15:08.000Z

Don’t feed the trolls

scottalanmiller · 2014-08-15T13:21:17.000Z

Start with Spiceworks, it’s free and might be all that you need.

havokovah · 2014-08-15T14:06:10.000Z

My company wont let me use spiceworks…why idk i keep asking and keep getting denied

havokovah · 2014-08-15T14:07:35.000Z

Thanks to all u smartasses…appreciate the help. but does anyone have any actual information thats helpful. im not retarded spiceworks was the first thing i looked at and my company said no. nothing i can do about it.

ewillie · 2014-08-15T14:16:33.000Z

Lots of tools can be found here. Look at PDQ inventory and Spiceworks.

ryanluna · 2014-08-15T16:23:59.000Z

bryanmelendez:

…spiceworks was the first thing i looked at and my company said no. nothing i can do about it.

Wait…You’re the entire IT department and your company said no to a robust and free asset management package that’s well supported? That’s just weird.

If it’s free, and you’re the only person in IT, there really should be no reason anyone else in your company should have a say as to using it or not.

rams3s · 2014-08-15T19:05:57.000Z

01Ryan10:

bryanmelendez:

…spiceworks was the first thing i looked at and my company said no. nothing i can do about it.

Wait…You’re the entire IT department and your company said no to a robust and free asset management package that’s well supported? That’s just weird.

If it’s free, and you’re the only person in IT, there really should be no reason anyone else in your company should have a say as to using it or not.

Exactly! Just install it and start using it. who’s going to know? The consultant? Or was he the one saying no?