The Value Chain Gap: Asset Invisibility In The Enterprise

By Integrated Solutions magazine

Businesses spend billions to increase revenue and improve process efficiency through a variety of customer-facing and back end enterprise applications. Despite the countless dollars spent on technologies and business process improvement, there is a gap in the value chain that leads to significant revenue leakage. This gap is created by pervasive "asset invisibility." Historically, revenue leakage has been considered a function of theft and fraud. The reality is that the revenue leakage from a lack of asset visibility may be just as high as it is from theft and fraud.