MODERN ISSUES OF IT ASSET MANAGEMENT IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Marunko Anna Sergeevna, Popov Ilya Olegovich

Object: to discover current problems in IT asset management sphere and generate possible solutions to these problems. Methods: search for relevant publications in data bases such as e-Library, “Консультант”, Google Scholar and among IT asset management community analysis and their following analysis to discover and systemize current problems in this sphere in Russia. Findings: nowadays, topics of complex IT asset discovery, new technologies management and import substitution are of current interest in Russia. There are several possible alternative ways to mitigate all of these problem types, but it won’t be possible to eliminate them completely in the nearest future both in Russia and around the globe. Conclusions: while managing IT assets in Russia, one might come across both global and local, connected to geopolitical field, issues. Despite them being irremovable, business entities and the ITAM community should seek their mitigation because it opens up new possibilities for development to the whole Russian IT sphere.

Keywords:IT assets; IT asset management (ITAM); software asset management (SAM); software; software as a service (SaaS); licenses, import substitution