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A collection of links, news and updates from the ITAM Industry: VMWare buys IT Financial Management Vendor Digital Fuel Microsoft Announces 2011 Partner of the Year Award Winners and Finalists (Winner: Civica, Finalist: iQuate, Finalist: Provance ) ITIL 2011 Edition Published...
Are Companies Underestimating IBM Audits? I recently interviewed Alan Swahn, VP of Product Management at Flexera Software. We discussed IBM Licensing and the IBM audit program. Q. Why IBM? Shouldn’t companies spend more time focusing on Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle audit compliance? Many...
This article has been contributed by Kylie Fowler. Regular columnist and Analyst at The ITAM Review. Most ITAM Practitioners will come across the concept of Return on Investment (ROI) when researching how to build a business case for ITAM. There is a lot of literature available which...
Software Usage Monitoring - Measure to Improve Efficiency This article aims to provide an introduction to software usage, clarify terminology and perhaps help you build a business case for implementing software usage monitoring. Introduction I have spoken to a number of organizations...
LinkedIn Groups have proven to be popular for ITAM Professionals. Below are 28 different ITAM related LinkedIn Groups to consider. The number of members in each group are marked (in brackets). Popular ITAM Specific LinkedIn Groups Software Asset Management (2,944) IT Asset Management...
'Catching Up on Email' This article has been contributed by Bob Janssen, co-founder and CTO of RES Software. In this article Bob argues that the consumerization of IT challenges the traditional device-centric approach to asset management and highlights a trend towards services...
Paid Reviewers Required I am looking to build a panel of reviewers to help me review technology and services in the IT Asset Management marketplace. The review process includes: Watching a webinar Logging into a system or when appropriate installing an application for evaluation Completing...
software publishers complaining about piracy - a charade? Last month the Business Software Alliance (BSA) published their ‘Eighth Annual Global Software Piracy Study’. The BSA reports that the commercial value of pirated software continues to rise and that piracy is growing fastest...
Jeff Ferguson I plan to publish an interview with an ITAM Review Virtual User Group member once a month (assuming we have enough volunteers!). In this first interview I ask Jeff Ferguson, an ITAM and Technical Procurement Professional in the USA about his experiences with a project...
The ITAM Review forum now has a new home within the Virtual User Group. Below are some edited highlights of some of the discussions from the old forum. Thank you to everyone that contributed and sorry for the upheaval in moving things around. Q. Looking for a SAM tool that will full...