Product Types

 

Each product can be categorized into a specific Product Type, Type & Category. This is a high level categorization of the assets in an organization. e.g., Adobe Photoshop licenses or Macromedia Flash licenses.

 

Product Type : Product Type refers to a product typecast. The assets are grouped according to their Product  Types. For e.g. all the Printers in the organization will be grouped under the product type printers.

 

Type : Type is a subdivision of product types. They are classified in to Asset and Asset Components for e.g. a Workstation is an Asset, Keyboard is an Asset Component.

 

Category : Category is a common attribute of Product Types and Types. They are classified into IT and Non-IT. For e.g. Workstation is an IT asset & Projector & Scanners are Non - IT assets.

 

Example : Adobe Photoshop & HP Inkjet Printer can be categorized as,

 

Assets Product Type

Type

Category

Adobe Photoshop/Macromedia Licenses

Software Licenses

Components

IT

HP Inkjet Printer

Printer

Asset

IT

 

 

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