I'm thinking about tracking inventory -- specifically servers, PCs, laptops, and other assets that have a clear value, user-assignment, serial numbers, and other things like service contracts, online information, tracking dates and stuff like that.

All of these things seem so easy for Sharepoint, but getting them all together seems challenging.  A/D integration is already there, so it's not like I have to have an employee database.  Having this information in a list seems very easy too. 

• Adding the maintenance contracts almost seem like it's within my grasp, because I could add the contracts in one list and reference them in the inventory list.
• By “tracking dates“, I mean I'd want to have a button or some action I could take called “verify” so that when I saw a given asset and verified that it exists and is in the hands of x user, the timestamp would update so I would know how current my inventory list is.
• By “online information”, I mean accessing a url with some of asset's information as part of the URL.  One example is Dell equipment -- I know that http://support.dell.com/blahblahblah?serial=XXXXX will get me the warranty, downloads, system configuration and all sorts of stuff for that system.  I want to be able to access it directly from this list.

So I wonder if 1) this is a Sharepoint Administrator task because it really is pretty easy, 2) this is a Sharepoint Developer task and will take a little or significant development work or 3) there's a 3rd party product already that will do this.... or that can do it in some other system and integrate with Sharepoint.

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