Inventorying information technology systems: Supporting the ''paradigm of change''

Information technology systems permeate organizations, supporting almost everything-apart from managing IT items themselves. Software configuration management systems aren't designed to handle the totality of a distributed enterprise or to act as a management information resource. Software sources constitute major organization assets, but they can't be treated as such until they're inventoried. Software inventorying is one of a set of integrated technologies developed to address problems of managing constantly changing technological and business processes. Those technologies are aspects of an evolving business paradigm called the paradigm of change.