Mender Announces Steward™ – A New Command Center for Enterprise IT Asset Lifecycle Management

New enterprise lifecycle management platform gives organizations a single source of truth across IT asset disposition, compliance, recovery, and operational visibility

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mender, an enterprise IT lifecycle and disposition company, today announced the launch of Steward™ (www.withmender.com/steward), the IT Asset Lifecycle Command Center, a new enterprise lifecycle management platform designed to help organizations manage, control, and extract greater value from IT assets across disposition, recovery, compliance, and downstream infrastructure operations.

Built from direct enterprise customer demand, Steward™ represents a strategic evolution for mender and a new approach to enterprise IT lifecycle management. As organizations manage increasingly distributed infrastructure, compressed refresh cycles, and rising compliance pressure, traditional ITAD workflows and disconnected reporting systems are no longer enough.

Steward™ was built to solve a specific enterprise problem: fragmented visibility across IT asset recovery, redeployment, compliance, and disposition workflows. The platform gives organizations a centralized operational command center and single source of truth for downstream IT asset lifecycle management.

"This is not a rebrand of an old portal. Steward™ was built from the ground up to address the visibility, control, and operational challenges enterprise organizations continue to face with legacy systems," said Robert Erwin, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Mender. "Steward™ was built directly from the frustrations enterprise clients told us they were experiencing every day: limited visibility, disconnected reporting, compliance complexity, and lack of control. We built Steward™ to solve those problems in a fundamentally different way and create a platform designed around how enterprise organizations actually operate."

The launch comes as enterprises face growing pressure around audit readiness, sustainability reporting, and infrastructure accountability. Steward™ helps organizations track assets in real time, centralize compliance documentation, strengthen chain-of-custody transparency, and maintain operational oversight across distributed IT environments.

Unlike legacy ITAD systems built primarily for static reporting, Steward™ was designed as an active operational environment where organizations engage directly with lifecycle visibility, workflows, and decision-making, rather than waiting on reports that arrive after the fact.

"What we kept hearing from enterprise teams was simple: they wanted a single pane of glass for their IT asset operations," said Kent Taggart, Co-Founder of mender. "Organizations are tired of fragmented systems, delayed reporting, and black-box processes. Steward™ brings visibility, control, and accountability into one environment."

Steward™ was also designed to support deeper integration into enterprise IT environments, allowing organizations to centralize lifecycle visibility across existing operational systems and workflows.

The platform supports organizations navigating complex compliance and governance demands by centralizing audit-ready reporting, chain-of-custody documentation, and security workflows that enterprise teams actually need to operate with confidence.

Steward™ is particularly well-suited for enterprises running distributed infrastructure environments, hyperscale and data center operations, large-scale refresh programs, and redeployment initiatives where visibility and accountability have historically been hard to maintain.

The platform builds on mender’s operational experience supporting global enterprises, hyperscale environments, distributed infrastructure programs, and large-scale redeployment initiatives across complex IT ecosystems.

"The downstream side of the IT lifecycle has been undervalued for years," Robert Erwin said. "Steward™ changes that. This platform gives organizations more control, more insight, and a smarter way to manage the operational, financial, and compliance realities tied to enterprise IT infrastructure."

Organizations interested in learning more about Steward™ or requesting a platform walkthrough can visit www.withmender.com/steward or contact the mender team directly.

About mender

Mender is an enterprise IT asset lifecycle and disposition company helping organizations recover value, reduce risk, improve sustainability outcomes, and simplify complex IT asset workflows across global environments. Through operational expertise and platform-driven visibility, mender helps enterprises modernize how they manage technology at the end of life and beyond.

Media Contact:
Name: Robert Erwin
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Mender
Email: robert@withmender.com
Phone: (844)373-4823