Patricia Adams Research Director Stamford, CT USA Years of Experience 16 years at Gartner 16 years IT industry Areas of Coverage IT Asset Management IT Operations View Latest Research Resources Create Analyst Alert Contact Gartner Roles and Responsibilities Patricia Adams is a research director in Gartner Research. She is the lead analyst on IT asset management tools and technologies, including asset repository, autodiscovery/inventory and software usage tools. Her research area includes IT asset management processes, best practices, and implementation methodologies associated with software asset management and IT asset management. Ms. Adams also co-covers configuration management databases and IT service dependency mapping tools in her research focus. Previous Experience Since Ms. Adams joined Gartner in 1993, her research has focused on several technology areas. For several years, she was the primary analyst covering desktop, midrange, and Unix-based tape subsystems and automated storage solutions. Today she is the lead analyst on IT asset management tools and processes. Professional Background The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Registrar's Office, 3 years Education B.A., Bard College LATEST RESEARCH More by this author Title Publish Date Author(s) BMC Adds Another IT Service DM Vendor to Its Portfolio 04-Nov-2009 Patricia Adams, Ronni J. Colville Toolkit: How to Ease Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Through CMDB and Dependency Mapping 30-Oct-2009 Ronni J. Colville, Patricia Adams BMC Will Use Tideway Technology to Shore Up Its CMDB Offerings 26-Oct-2009 Ronni J. Colville, Patricia Adams IT Asset Management; CIO Desk Reference Chapter 25 01-Oct-2009 Patricia Adams, John P. Roberts, Stewart Buchanan Steps to Locate IT Hardware Assets 16-Sep-2009 Patricia Adams