Asset Management Features & Benefits

Manage relationships and dependencies within your enterprise hierarchy and infrastructure to support risk and compliance initiatives.

• Document Your Business Hierarchy

  To support rollup reporting of risk and compliance initiatives across your enterprise, you need a detailed view into your business hierarchy. Archer Asset Management provides a framework for modeling out your organizational structure down to the business unit level. You can capture information on organizational responsibilities and management, current year financials, and related business processes and infrastructure technologies. In addition, risk ratings and compliance status for each component within your organizational structure are automatically pulled in from the Archer Risk and Compliance Management solutions, providing a high-level view of this information for senior management.

• Centralize Your Infrastructure Database

  Archer Asset Management gives you an aggregate view of critical infrastructure technologies and their relationships to your organizational hierarchy and business offerings. The solution serves as a point of consolidation for data from numerous systems of record. You can enter information through Archer’s easy-to-use web interface, or you can automatically import data from third-party discovery and inventory solutions using the Archer Data Feed Service. Archer then enables you to classify your business offerings and technologies by type or grouping, understand relationships and dependencies, and assign ownership to establish a clear line of authority for maintenance, control and security. Because the solution is built on the flexible Archer SmartSuite Framework, you can tailor the solution structure to collect an unlimited number of data points that are important to your organization.

• Relate Business Processes to Products and Services

  Within your infrastructure database, Archer Asset Management enables you to track your organization's products and services and the specific business processes that support them. For example, if you are a financial services firm that offers an online banking service to your customers, you can relate business processes, such as deposit, transfer and bill pay, to that service. This allows you to assess the criticality of those business processes based on the services they support and understand the impact to your service offerings in the event that the supporting business processes are impaired.

• Identify Applications That Support Your Processes

  To further define infrastructure dependencies, Archer Asset Management enables you to relate software applications to the business processes they support. This relationship helps you to classify and prioritize applications based on their value and criticality to your business. For example, if management requests a report of all applications that support financial transactions, you can map specific applications, such as transaction management and accounting software, to that business process. You can also identify how your applications are being used, who manages them and where they are located within your business.

• Manage the Devices That Support Your Applications

  Archer Asset Management enables you to streamline the administration of technical devices, including servers, routers, desktop computers and similar equipment, that support your organization’s applications. Through Archer’s cross-referencing capabilities, you can link devices to the facilities where they are housed, assign ownership and track configuration changes over time to ensure that you are protecting the critical infrastructure of your organization.

• Report on Your Business Hierarchy and Enterprise Infrastructure

  Archer provides powerful reporting capabilities that allow you to monitor risk and compliance activities at the company, division and business unit levels and to track supporting infrastructure technologies by type, criticality, owner and other attributes. You can also construct graphical executive dashboards, and with a simple click of the mouse, managers can access underlying data for a complete understanding of the technologies and processes that support your business offerings. Also, end users can view technologies and processes from the point of view that is most valuable to them, allowing them to understand what they own and how it must be protected.

• Support Risk and Compliance Management Initiatives

  Archer Asset Management serves as the hub of your enterprise risk and compliance program, integrating seamlessly with all other Archer solutions. For example, Archer enables you to link policies, control standards and technical configuration procedures directly to technologies in order to monitor the implementation of controls. Archer Asset Management also serves as the clearly defined “target” for performing online assessments to evaluate risks within your environment and to identify areas of non-compliance with control standards and authoritative sources. This functionality extends to vendor interaction so you can understand vendor relationships and permissions to your enterprise infrastructure. In addition, you can track emerging threats and security incidents that affect specific technologies.