Most asset registers die of one disease: nothing in the organisation forces them to be updated. This one is built around the three events that actually change an asset's state (assignment, repair, and disposal), so the register is maintained by the work rather than by an annual audit.
Licence management has two failure modes that pull in opposite directions: under-licensed and exposed at audit, or over-licensed and paying for seats nobody uses. This tracker shows both gaps in the same view.
SaaS spend accumulates outside procurement, one card payment at a time, until nobody can say how many tools the organisation pays for. This inventory is built to surface those as much as the sanctioned ones.
Hardware refresh gets deferred because the cost is visible and the consequence is not. Showing the support-ticket cost of ageing devices alongside the replacement cost turns deferral into a decision rather than a default.
CMDBs fail by trying to record everything and becoming unmaintainable. The useful scope is narrow: the items whose relationships you need to understand during a change or an incident.
The risk in asset disposal is not the hardware value, it is the data. A device leaving the building with recoverable data is a breach you have voluntarily handed to a third party, and the only defence is per-device erasure evidence.