Integris Hardware Lifecycle Dashboard eases hardware lifecycle management
The dashboard proactively tracks devices that are older, out of warranty, or that pose a risk to an organization.
Key takeaways from this article on hardware lifecycle management:
- Aging hardware raises failure, data loss, and downtime risk—making proactive lifecycle management critical to protect productivity and business continuity.
- The Integris Hardware Lifecycle Dashboard turns complex asset data into clear health scores and prioritized actions IT leaders can act on quickly.
- Centralized dashboards in the Integris Client Portal also enable smarter refresh planning, budget forecasting, and executive-ready reporting.
When organizations fall behind on their hardware lifecycle management—to renew laptops and servers, for example—it can expose a company to risk.
As laptops and servers age, they are more likely to fail. Without proper data backup and disaster recovery strategies, this can spell crisis. Organizations are vulnerable to losing precious data and suffering from unproductive downtime—even with a strategy to recover data.
One key protection against hardware failure is hardware lifecycle management, which requires IT departments to have up-to-date inventories of hardware age, warranty issues, and at-risk equipment.
But inventory monitoring takes time and employees away from more strategic tasks. Which is why 52% of respondents to a survey report inventory monitoring as their biggest pain point. Monitoring hundreds or thousands of hardware assets for age, warranty status, and other issues is time-consuming and data-intensive. Organizations need a better way to manage and take action on at-risk hardware data.
The Integris Hardware Lifecycle Dashboard helps organizations move from reactive firefighting to proactive planning. IT leaders gain the visibility they need to reduce risk and justify refresh investments with confidence. Ultimately, smarter lifecycle management enables organizations to stay ahead of failures—rather than paying the cost after they happen.
“Hardware failures are crippling for a business,” said Damon Dobbs, product manager at Integris. “But most organizations don’t have the time or resources to manually track every device in their environment. By the time they realize something’s at risk, it’s already too late.”
How the dashboard enables hardware lifecycle management
As part of its managed service offerings, Integris has launched new features in its client portal that enable organizations to view hardware health at a glance and address issues proactively. Organizations can view all information through digestible, centralized dashboards in the Integris Client Portal.
The Integris Hardware Lifecycle Dashboard gives clients a “more actionable look at their hardware fleet,” Dobbs said. The dashboard provides a health score that rates an organization’s overall hardware environment and grades assets individually based on prescribed refresh cycles, warranty coverage, and so on. The portal also provides actionable advice on how to proceed based on the hardware health scores.
As Dobbs noted, these recommendations make it easy for IT leaders to digest data, view recommendations, and take action. The dashboard prompts clients to ask, “What does this really mean?” and, “How does this impact the whole of my fleet?”
“It’s how we are translating technical information into real, actionable insight,” Dobbs emphasized.
How hardware lifecycle management works with the Integris Hardware Lifecycle Dashboard
Here are key features of the hardware dashboard:
Hardware lifecycle health score. The dashboard provides an overall hardware health score as well as a series of prioritized recommendations. These suggestions provide the type of hardware, the issue flagged, and the action recommended.
The hardware score helps organizations grasp the operational risk associated with each hardware asset. “If one of these devices goes down, that translates to real dollars,” Dobbs said. “[When a laptop goes offline], you’re paying someone even though they aren’t working.” That can translate into hours or days of lost worker productivity. Server failures are even more disruptive—to the entire organization. “If a seven-year-old server goes down, it doesn’t just affect one person but the whole company.” IT leaders can begin to understand the costs and risks associated with the failure of any hardware asset and build replacement or warranty renewal plans.
Hardware refresh prioritization. Integris provides a roadmap for hardware refreshes based on category (server, laptop), priority, and action recommended. In some cases, the hardware may require critical action, in others it may trigger an issue to be addressed down the road. Priority levels are assigned and based on Integris’ own internally developed logic.
Budget forecasting. The dashboard also provides IT leaders with a view of devices that may need replacement by time frame and approximate cost. As a result, IT departments can allocate budget for new hardware purchases and prepare for key budget meetings with appropriate requests.
Easily exportable data. With easily exportable data, can take a PDF report to their IT committee meetings, executive planning sessions, or simply use it to make a more persuasive case with data.
Incorporation of client-specific standards. Soon, organizations will be able to input their own hardware refresh standards. So, for example, if an organization has a standard to replace laptops in three years rather than four (at the Integris standard), then the organization can input its own refresh cycles.
The Integris Hardware Lifecycle Dashboard helps organizations gain the visibility to reduce risk, protect productivity, and justify hardware refresh investments with confidence. Ultimately, smarter lifecycle management enables organizations to stay ahead of failures—rather than paying the cost after they happen.
For a walkthrough of the Hardware Lifecyle Dashboard that can prompt action at your business, learn more at Integris client support.
