Patricia Adams

IT Asset Management Expert, Landesk

Patricia Adams is an industry expert who has more than 21 years of experience at Gartner. As a research director for Gartner, she was the lead analyst for IT hardware and software asset management tools and best practices. Her research coverage area included midrange tape storage, CMDB, change management, dependency mapping tools, discovery tool, and ITIL. Throughout it all, her primary focus was advising companies on how to establish governance programs unique to their organizations, build the business case for ITAM, measure the success of the program, design policies, define roles and responsibilities, implement tools, and build a strategic road map for integrating ITAM into other domains.

Adams spoke annually with federal, state, and local governments, as well as hundreds of companies across industries (e.g., higher education, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services) ranging from 1000 employees to global organizations that treated ITAM as a shared service and needed advice on centralizing the program. Her advice was especially relevant to organizations that needed an effective life-cycle management strategy that met organization and regulatory requirements.

While at Gartner, Adams developed the first Gartner TCO model for storage and the ground breaking IT Asset Management Maturity model in 2001, which has been leveraged by many customers and vendors.