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This is an interesting alliance between iQuate and Aspera. Irish tool vendor iQuate are making good inroads with their agentless discovery technology. German tool vendor Aspera have über-sophisticated license management technology but no dedicated inventory solution. Aspera must...
Root Cause Analysis not Bandaids If organizations are to escape the painful cycle of firefighting against software audits and progress towards fully-fledged software asset management the focus needs to be on managing and acting on exceptions. That is, identifying where leakages in...
This article has been contributed by Sandi Conrad of Conrad & Associates. Sandi is the author of the “SAM Starter Kit” published by The ITAM Review. When starting out with a plan to manage your software assets, start early in the process by determining what your corporate...
I have written recently about inventory becoming a commoditized item. One of the limitations of inventory is that there is only so much detail you can collect about hardware and executables. The market appears to be focused on what we do with the data and not how we collect it. However...
Some interesting research here from Ernst & Young. Their recent SAM survey looked at both vendors and clients to assess attitudes towards vendor audits and SAM adoption. The research highlights room for improvement on both sides of vendor audit activity; vendors feel compliance...
This quick guide has been contributed by Matt Marnell of Flexera Software. Introduction Symantec is currently the world’s largest computer security software publisher, standing head and shoulders above the rest in terms of market share and revenues. Their popular brands include...
BDNA has sold PS’Soft to the Allen Systems Group (ASG) for an undisclosed sum. The PR blurb says: “The PS’Soft ITSM suite includes a Service Desk with incident, problem, change, configuration, release, service level and availability management processes, all of which have...
Here at the ITAM Review one of the ways in which we believe we can add further value to your organization is to conduct surveys in order to provide a benchmarking against fellow ITAM Review readers. We will be conducting a number of surveys over the course of the year. Our first survey...
Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce.com This Quick Guide is available in PDF format – Simply subscribe to our free newsletter to receive a free copy instantly. This article has been contributed by Jon Mulligan, Founder and Managing Director of Openplain. It has been argued that...