With organizations migrating from on premise to cloud in stages, their inventory management model is also transitioning to the cloud in stages. Though logistically and financially favorable, incremental migrations of scale undermine previous investments in integration and management of the firm’s complex business processes.

Outward signs of such administrative disruption include reporting inaccuracies in core processes at a minimum. This may resolve back to the challenges posed by risk managers to guarantee process integrity across the estate. Regulatory frameworks require auditable proof of resiliency of the underlying HW/SW/DATA infrastructure across whole estate.

Outward signs may also include a range of systemic issues like billing anomalies to wide-spread service disruptions to ransomware attacks. These likely resolve to the challenges of validating that all tools are configured correctly, in accordance with company policies. Or something as fundamental as which assets are here and not and supposed to be so, and which are here and not supposed to be so.

The main challenge is that most legacy asset tracking tools are made for on premise environments. Hybrid model sever existing integrations between inventory systems, upon which most monitoring tools are based. Reconciliation control between what is and what should be across cloud and premise assets is lacking.

These are often unsolvable challenges with the limited resources and time-frames constraining their focus to what is solvable. Risk Managers are doing their best to achieve better than the ‘least worst’ as an industry standard. Thus practitioners develop service baselines, then develop organizational capability to manage them.

This is where we can help.