HP AssetCenter 5.x Software: Modules

Course overview

This course provides students with the skills needed to effectively use and manage the HP AssetCenter 5.x Software product. This administrator level course helps students understand modules on 1) AssetCenter Software Asset Management, 2) AssetCenter Work Orders and Procurement, and 3) AssetCenter Finance and Contracts. This 3-day course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on labs.

Prerequisites

• HP AssetCenter 5.x Software: Essentials (HE462S)

Audience

• Customers: Administrators, developers, web developers, and managers who are managing the AssetCenter 5.x product
• Channel Partners and HP C&I Personnel: Consultants, system architects, integrators and planners who help customers with AssetCenter 5.x implementations
• HP Engineers: HP personnel who provide pre-sales and post-sales support for AssetCenter 5.x

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Course objectives

• Use AssetCenter Software Asset Management
• Aquire different types of maintenance work orders
• Automate the creation and updates of internal maintenance type work orders
• Build a procurement system using the Catalogs, Products, Catalog Reference tables
• Utilize the Procurement system through Purchase Requests and Orders
• Use AssetCenter Financial Management
• Use AssetCenter Contract Management

Next steps

• HP AssetCenter 5.x Software: Tailoring (HE464S)

Benefits to you

• Develop a strategy to implement and administer Software Asset Management
• Define and customize software counters
• Define and customize counters for entitlements
• Automate the creation and updates of internal maintenace type work orders
• Develop and automate a procurement system
• Develop and implement an automated financial solution
• Understand the different types of contracts and how they tie to assets

Course outline

• Software Management
• Installations
• Licenses
• Counters
• SAM Wizard
• Entitlements

Work Orders

• Acquiring Internal, on/off contract maintenance type work orders
• Automating the creation of internal maintenance type work orders
• Automating the updating of internal maintenance type work orders

Procurement Management

• Catalogs
• Products
• Catalog Reference
• Procurement Cycle Overview
• Purchase Request and Orders
• Receipt
• Invoice
• Additional Procurement Functions

Financial Management

• Expenses
• Budgets
• Example
• Reallocation of Expenses
• Cost Center Splitting
• Chargebacks

Contract Management

• Contracts Overview
• Simplified Data Model
• Common Contract Management Terms
• Viewing Costs Linked to a Contract
• Types of Contracts
• Non-Leasing Contract Types
• Insurance Contract
• Maintenance Contract
• License Contract
• ASP Contract
• Benefits of Application Services
• Creating an ASP Contract
• Using the ASP Contract
• Blanket Purchase Order
• Leasing Management Overview
• Lease Procedure
• Master Lease and Lease Schedules
• Leased Asset
• Methods of Rent Calculation
• Why Distribute Rent to All Assets?
• Why Distribute to a Selection of Assets?
• Why Choose Not to Distribute to Asset Level?
• Calculating Rent
• Exercising End-of-Term Options