Before government agencies can harness the power of AI, they need complete, accurate and continuously updated visibility into their IT environments. This paper explores how fragmented systems, outdated asset inventories and compliance pressures create barriers to safe and scalable AI deployment. It introduces a unified approach to asset intelligence — enabling real-time oversight, automated policy enforcement and more confident decision-making across decentralized departments. You’ll learn how one state government used this strategy to reduce friction across more than 30 agencies and gain instant insight into patch status, MFA usage and tool compliance. If your agency is serious about preparing for AI, this paper shows where to start — and why asset intelligence matters now more than ever.
