Technology Asset Intelligence: Data-Driven Insights for Optimizing Technology Across the Enterprise

Managing Rapid Change in the Age of AI and Intelligent Automation

Change remains the one constant in the world of Technology. In recent years, organizations across every industry have faced unprecedented disruption and transformation, requiring them to rethink how they manage technology investments and operations. While the pandemic was a catalyst for digital acceleration, ushering in widespread remote work and a surge in demand for cloud and online services, the driving forces today are different: the rise of AI, automation, and intelligent digital ecosystems.

Generative AI, machine learning, and automation are now redefining how businesses operate. According to McKinsey, 65% of organizations report adopting at least one AI capability in 2024, with early adopters achieving double-digit efficiency gains. Gartner projects that by 2026, 75% of enterprises will have shifted from piloting AI projects to operationalizing them at scale. At the same time, hybrid work, edge computing, and distributed cloud models continue to expand the enterprise IT landscape, making visibility and control over assets more complex than ever.

From ITAM to Technology Asset Intelligence (TAI)

Over the past decade, IT Asset Management (ITAM) has been the discipline for managing hardware, software, and infrastructure across their lifecycle. Originally defined by Gartner in 2011 as “a framework and set of processes for strategically tracking and managing the financial, physical, licensing and contractual aspects of IT assets,” ITAM has evolved from manual, spreadsheet-driven processes into automated platforms that provide complete asset discovery and lifecycle management.

Fast forward to 2025: IT assets now include not only servers, routers, desktops, and mobile devices, but also virtual machines, containers, SaaS applications, IoT, OT, and AI models themselves. As regulatory frameworks tighten and security risks grow, the need for a unified, intelligent view of all technology assets has become mission-critical. Traditional approaches can no longer keep up with the scale and complexity of modern IT estates.

That’s why Lansweeper continues to lead in automated asset discovery and recognition, empowering IT teams to eliminate blind spots and create accurate, real-time inventories without the burden of manual tracking. But the challenge now extends beyond visibility. As AI-driven business models proliferate, IT leaders must also ensure governance, compliance, and optimization across increasingly intelligent, interconnected systems.

Modern organizations must:

• Implement AI-ready cybersecurity strategies to defend against evolving threats
• Manage hardware, software, and cloud configurations across environments
• Execute cloud and edge deployments seamlessly
• Secure IoT and OT assets as they converge with IT networks
• Ensure compliance with fast-changing regulations
• Optimize IT costs while maximizing the ROI of technology assets

To achieve these goals, IT leaders need more than asset management. They need Technology Asset Intelligence: a dynamic, intelligent approach that brings together visibility, automation, and AI-driven insights to help organizations thrive in today’s rapidly shifting digital landscape.

What is Technology Asset Intelligence?

Technology Asset Intelligence (TAI) uplevels the practice of ITAM to acknowledge just how pervasive and critical technology has become – from the physical and virtual infrastructure that serves as the backbone for our data and services, to the software that enables us to access those data and services, to the IoT and OT in remote locations and on the manufacturing floor. More than just managing IT and software assets, TAI is the process of deriving actionable intelligence from the data generated by every physical, virtual, and software asset an organization owns, along with information about all users in the organizations – intelligence that can be applied to support various business use cases. 

TAI serves as a foundation for making informed decisions about how organizations tackle digital transformation initiatives, manage and optimize their growing infrastructure, and structure and enhance the customer experience. And, it begins with an indisputable, comprehensive system of record that contains all the information necessary to answer any question about a company’s technology ecosystem. 

Any Business or IT Scenario – One Source of Truth  

Lansweeper began as a small startup with a solution to help IT SysAdmins. After almost ten years of rapid growth, we are now a global team with solutions for IT teams, cloud teams, DevOps, ISVs, MSPs, telcos and consumers. As we continue to partner with market leaders and acquire new technology, we are broadening our vision and corporate mission in a way that connects our history with our present purpose and our future potential as an organization: to be the indisputable leader in Technology Asset Management. 

Lansweeper started with a focus on inventory of physical IT assets, but today’s definition of technology assets is much more expansive, encompassing a wide array of physical and virtual assets. While we will always be focused on managing technology assets, and our traditional audience of SysAdmins will remain core to our identity, the Lansweeper platform has become relevant to any audience that deals with and is impacted by technology, providing a reliable data source for the world of technology at large.

Lansweeper turned the process of creating asset inventories on its head. Our solution discovers and aggregates data across the IT stack, so that organizations can tap into an always-accurate single source of truth to inform all business and IT scenarios and enable strategic decision-making. This central repository of IT asset data replaced data silos, spreadsheets, and project-based data sets. We called this approach “ITAM 2.0”. It provides a single system of record to feed conversations and decisions, and provide other mission-critical systems – such as CMDB, ITSM, SIEM and SOAR systems – automatic and immediate access to complete, up-to-date, granular IT asset data, empowering various teams to act quickly.

Lansweeper bridges the gap between simply discovering and logging IT assets to acknowledge the broader application of technology data across an organization. It empowers organizations with Technology Asset Intelligence so they can leverage actionable data and insights to optimize their infrastructure and derive maximum value from their technology investments.

“We can no longer limit IT asset management to physical devices. We must provide actionable intelligence across all technology assets – from physical and virtual devices, to software and cloud assets, to IoT and OT. By doing so, we help our customers continue to build the foundation for managing technology effectively across the organization, to accommodate and support technology innovations and expansion.”

Roel Decneut, Chief Strategy Officer, Lansweeper 

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How Lansweeper Provides Technology Asset Intelligence

With its market-leading technology asset discovery and recognition technologies, combined with advanced asset intelligence and an expanding solutions ecosystem, Lansweeper delivers on the promise of Technology Asset Intelligence.

Automated and Instant IT Asset Discovery

At the core of our platform is IT asset discovery, and the ability to create a complete and accurate IT asset inventory. Lansweeper combines active and passive, agentless and agent-based discovery with data aggregation for unprecedented visibility across the IT estate. The solution locates and identifies devices both inside and outside the four walls of a business, in hard-to-reach places and from unexpected sources – all Windows, Linux and Mac devices as well as  routers, printers, switches, ports, virtual computers and mobile devices. Using credential-free device recognition, Lansweeper detects assets the moment they connect to the network, however briefly. Thanks to the power of AI, Lansweeper enriches IT asset data with additional information that previously could not be retrieved without credentials such as device manufacturer, model and operating system.  

Asset Intelligence

With a single source of truth providing data on every physical and virtual technology asset, Lansweeper enables deep and actionable, domain-specific business intelligence to inform technology investments and strategies, and help organizations run more efficiently, securely and cost-effectively. In short, we highlight the data that’s important to help teams understand the unknown unknowns. Lansweeper organizes and contextualizes the data it collects according to an organization’s projects and processes, making it usable and actionable for a variety of business scenarios. Users can visualize and analyze all data via pre-built and customizable dashboards and widgets to understand patch status, vulnerability exposure, security compliance, software licensing, hardware warranty information, and much more. Advanced reporting features enable teams to retrieve and analyze the data they need when they need it, and easily share that data with stakeholders.

Solution Ecosystem

Through our partnerships, Lansweeper seamlessly connects to specialized systems across an organization’s technology stack, including CMDB, ITSM, SIEM, SOAR and more, providing instant access to data and insights relevant for a broad range of IT use cases. It enables teams to fuel any IT scenario through a federated and centrally managed Asset Inventory. An extensive and growing library of APIs enable customers and partners to leverage Lansweeper data to derive their own unique insights, and we’re focused on expanding our partner ecosystem with strategic investments in integrations, as well.

Business Intelligence

The application of TAI goes beyond technology management and optimization within a single organization. By aggregating, anonymizing and externalizing IT Asset data, organizations can gather broader industry insights to help guide strategic decision-making at the executive level.

“Lansweeper wants to become the clearinghouse for all data on technology assets, including its users. With access to complete, accurate Lansweeper data, organizations can drive decisions – large or small, transactional and strategic.”

Roel Decneut, Chief Strategy Officer, Lansweeper 

New Technology for More Comprehensive TAI

Lansweeper is making strategic investments that support the realization of our mission to provide Technology Asset Intelligence. In 2020, Lansweeper acquired Fing, the leader in AI-driven device recognition and fingerprinting identification technologies.

The acquisition of Montreal-based UMAknow and its Cloudockit solution in 2022 will extended and enhanced Lansweeper’s capabilities with cloud discovery and documentation, helping organizations Better understand their cloud environments and identify misconfigurations and potential security threats. The Cloudockit technology automatically generates architecture diagrams and technical documentation of an organizations’ cloud environments to support many scenarios.

The most recent acquisition of RedJack in 2025 brings advanced passive network discovery and application dependency mapping, giving organizations unmatched visibility into every asset that touches the network — known or unknown, managed or unmanaged. By integrating Redjack’s traffic-based discovery with Lansweeper’s rich asset intelligence, customers gain deeper insights into how assets interconnect across enterprise, cloud, and edge environments. This expanded visibility enhances attack surface management, business continuity planning, and third-party risk management, enabling IT and security teams to prioritize vulnerabilities, streamline migrations, and strengthen resilience.

“With Redjack on our side, we can now promise total visibility for our customers — the most crucial step in any cybersecurity strategy. After all, you can’t secure what you don’t see.”

– Dave Goossens, CEO at Lansweeper

Intelligence to Fuel the Future of IT

The future of business is being reshaped by AI, automation, cloud, edge, and hybrid work models, all driving continuous and accelerating change. There’s no going back. Organizations that harness Technology Asset Intelligence will be best positioned to thrive, with the ability to secure and optimize an increasingly complex IT estate, reduce costs, and turn raw asset data into actionable insights. By combining visibility with intelligence, they can make smarter strategic decisions, strengthen cyber resilience, and maximize the return on technology investments.

Lansweeper is the clear leader in Technology Asset Intelligence, delivering the deep insights organizations need to gain control of their technology assets, power innovation, and fuel the future of IT.

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