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Audit Wizard V8 Estate Size: 1,438 (72% Desktops, 23% Laptops, 4% Servers, 1% Other) Reviewer: Tim Heywood, Engineering Systems Manager, SELEX Communications (Defence & Aerospace) Product: Audit Wizard V8 by Layton Technology General Feedback Strengths: It’s an agent-less...
Quacquarelli Symonds - BSA Breach in 3 out of 10 Results (CLICK TO ENLARGE) The group behind www.topuniversities.com and www.topmba.com landed itself in the UK IT press for all the wrong reasons last week. It was reported that Quacquarelli Symonds Consulting Limited had to pay the...
Like an elegant Swan hiding frantic legs kicking below the surface, a software webshop allows a simplified front to the complex process of license management. One of the current competitive differentiators in market-leading SAM tools is the ability to offer a software request platform...
The chart below represents a high level summary of how vendors are currently scored within the ‘TOOLS INTELLIGENCE’ service from The ITAM Review. Vendors have been assessed against our ‘Mid-Market SAM’ criteria. The Enterprise SAM summary can be found here. IMPORTANT:...
Here are a few insights from reviewing 17 market leading SAM tools over the last few months: 1. GREAT TECHNOLOGY First of all there is some great technology out there. As someone who is looking at this technology on a weekly basis I found myself surprised at how far the market has...
I conducted a brief straw poll on vendor audit activity back in July. Thank you to everyone that took part, I apologise for the delay in publishing the results. In a nutshell: 78% experienced a vendor audit in the last year, average 2.5 audits, most helpful Microsoft, least helpful...
Your Help Is Required The SAM standard ISO/IEC 19770 is pivotal to the ongoing development of the SAM industry. The standard enables the industry to benefit from a commercially neutral benchmark and frame of reference on which to build SAM training, services, skills and implementations. However,...
Jeff Jones of Flexera Software is a licensing expert focused on enterprise license optimization and compliance. Having spent 12+ years at Oracle, he is one of Flexera’s key product experts and advisors for Oracle. He also has in-depth knowledge of the Desktop, SAP, and Engineering...
Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the biggest UK spending cuts for decades. This article has been contributed by Larry Stein at Dell Kace. Public sector organisations are facing up to real pressure around cuts in spending. In the UK, the Comprehensive Spending Review announced...
The ITAM Review is two years old this month. A continued big thank you to all the readers, contributors, clients and supporters who have helped the site grow. Unashamed Self-Promotion In the last year The ITAM Review has: Published c. 100 Articles and Updates Distributed Twelve Monthly...