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Article: FDIC Eyes IT Assets.
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- Bank Technology News
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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By Joseph McKendrick
Laptops, desktops, servers, printers, modems and monitors-financial institutions have thousands of these devices in their inventories. But they probably don't know exactly what they have, or what condition the equipment is in. Help is on the way in the form of a new breed of software called computerized maintenance management software (CMMS).
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is deploying a CMMS system so the agency's IT managers can plan, purchase, manage and eventually dispose of almost 25,000 pieces of equipment, from laptops to back-office servers. The FDIC brought in Innolog, a McLean, VA-based systems integrator, ...