IT Asset Management · 05

Managed services for your ITAM estate.

A dedicated service desk and support team running your SAM, HAM, and FinOps operations end-to-end — with SLA-backed response, specialist expertise, and progressive automation embedded from day one.

<4hr
SLA response target for Priority-1 incidents across the managed ITAM estate.
3
Maturity stages — from rapid environment onboarding, through ISO alignment, to full automation.
40%
Average reduction in manual effort after reaching the automation stage of the engagement.
The problem we solve

ITAM operations run on fragile expertise and manual habit.

Most organisations carry the weight of their ITAM estate on a handful of in-house specialists — people who know the quirks of the tooling, the history of vendor agreements, and the gaps nobody has written down. When they leave, so does the knowledge. When volume spikes, the estate degrades silently.

Proteam's Managed Services replaces that fragility with a structured service desk model: defined SLAs, experienced specialists covering SAM, HAM, and FinOps challenges, and a continuous improvement track that moves the engagement from reactive support toward intelligent automation over time.

The approach is staged deliberately. We get into your environment fast — usually within two weeks — then systematically align operations to ISO 19770-series and ITIL service desk standards before introducing automation that removes the routine toil from procurement, reconciliation, and reporting.

What's included

Every engagement covers these six capabilities.

The scope is consistent across clients — depth and SLA tier are calibrated to your estate size and complexity.

01 /

SLA-backed service desk

Defined Priority-1 through Priority-4 response SLAs across all ITAM ticket categories — licence queries, hardware exceptions, procurement approvals, reconciliation disputes, and vendor escalations. Monthly SLA reporting included.

02 /

SAM operations

Ongoing licence position management, entitlement reconciliation, true-up preparation, and publisher alert monitoring. Covers Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM, and all secondary publishers in your estate.

03 /

HAM operations

Hardware asset register hygiene, CMDB reconciliation, refresh cycle management, disposal tracking, and lease compliance monitoring — coordinated with your procurement and IT operations teams.

04 /

FinOps support

Cloud spend tagging hygiene, commitment utilisation tracking, showback and chargeback data preparation, and anomaly alerting across AWS, Azure, and GCP tenancies. Aligned with the FinOps Foundation framework.

05 /

ISO & process alignment

Service desk processes documented and operated to ISO 19770-1 (SAM), ISO 19770-5 (ITAM overview), and ITIL 4 Service Desk guidance — providing an auditable, externally-defensible operating model.

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Automation & workflow engineering

Procurement request workflows, automated reconciliation triggers, scheduled discovery-to-CMDB sync jobs, and report distribution pipelines — built progressively to eliminate manual effort from daily operations.

SLA tiers & response model

Response commitments that hold under pressure.

Four priority tiers govern every ticket across the managed estate. Response targets are contractual — and reviewed monthly against your environment's actual incident profile.

P1 SLA <4hr RESPONSE P1 P2 P3 P4
Priority tiers — response & resolution
P1
Critical — service disruption
Response
<4 hr
Resolution
<1 day
P2
High — compliance or audit risk
Response
<8 hr
Resolution
<3 days
P3
Standard — operational requests
Response
1 day
Resolution
<5 days
P4
Low — advisory & reporting queries
Response
2 days
Resolution
<10 days
Response target
Resolution target
How we mature the engagement
Three stages. Each one unlocks the next.
2-week onboarding · ongoing managed operations
Wk 1–2
01
Assess & Onboard
Get into the environment. Fast.
We gain visibility into your tools, data feeds, and existing processes in under two weeks — no lengthy discovery phase, no delay in operations starting.
Tool access & discovery scan
Existing ticket triage & backlog review
Stakeholder mapping & escalation paths
SLA baseline agreed & activated
Mo 1–3
02
ISO Alignment
Establish the ISO-grade operating standard.
Service desk processes are documented and operated to ISO 19770 and ITIL 4 standards — creating an auditable, repeatable model that holds under external scrutiny.
ISO 19770-1 SAM process alignment
ITIL 4 service desk governance
Documented runbooks per ticket category
Monthly SLA review & KPI reporting
Mo 3+
03
Automate
Remove toil. Let the estate manage itself.
With a stable, ISO-aligned operation as the foundation, we introduce automation across procurement workflows, reconciliation jobs, and reporting — freeing specialists to focus on exception handling.
Automated procurement request routing
Discovery-to-CMDB sync pipelines
Scheduled reconciliation & exception alerting
Automated report distribution
Time to operations
<2 wks
Typical time from contract signature to active service desk operations running against your estate.
ISO alignment
Mo 3
Target month for full ISO 19770 and ITIL 4 process alignment — providing an externally-auditable operating model.
Manual effort reduction
~40%
Average reduction in manual daily task volume after automation layer is deployed in Stage 3 engagements.
Proof

A recent engagement.

A global manufacturing client moved from a reactive, spreadsheet-driven ITAM operation to a fully SLA-governed managed service — and passed their first ISO-aligned internal audit within four months.
SS
Shubham Singh
SAM Assistant Manager
Tickets resolved to SLA
97%
A global manufacturing firm engaged Proteam Managed Services after losing their in-house SAM lead. We onboarded within 9 days, stabilised the backlog, and established ISO-aligned processes over three months. Ninety-seven percent of tickets were resolved within SLA in the first full quarter — up from an untracked prior state.
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Adjacent services

Often deployed alongside.

Managed Services is typically the operational layer that runs on top of a maturity assessment or baselining engagement — or stands alongside FinOps managed operations.

Ready to talk

Want to hand over your ITAM operations?

The free consultation is a 30-minute scoping call with a senior managed services specialist. We'll look at your current ITAM state, tooling, and volume — and tell you honestly whether a managed engagement is the right move, and what Stage 1 onboarding would look like for your environment.

What you'll get

  • 30-minute call with a senior ITAM managed services specialist.
  • Quick review of your current tool coverage and team capacity.
  • Indicative SLA tier and scope recommendation for your estate.
  • Honest view on whether managed operations or a maturity engagement is the right first step.