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FAST Conference 2010 at Mercedez World WHAT After a 4 year sabbatical, the FAST Annual Conference returns in 2010 with ‘The Complexity of Change’ a one day event for IT Directors, IT Managers, IT Service Personnel, Team Leaders, Procurement personnel, Financial Directors and Managing...
Custom Tweaks To Enhance Performance This is the second expert panel following valued contributions from industry experts on the NHS exiting their Enterprise Agreement last month. If you would like to contribute to future expert panels please give me a shout. This month the expert...
Rob England, The IT Skeptic According to the blurb on the back cover, ‘Owning ITIL’ by Rob England, is aimed at ‘all decision makers who are presented with an ITIL proposal or asked to oversee or own an ITIL project’. I believe it has a much wider remit than that, and recommend...
In my survey of regular readers of the ITAM Review 64% consider a Forum to be either important or very important. I believe it would be useful to have an independent forum where organisations could ask commercially sensitive questions about licensing, compliance and other matters...
Stephen J. Dubner, Gartner Keynote, Author of "Freakonomics" WHAT The ITAM Review is very pleased to be an officical media partner for the Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit 2010. WHO Gartner. “This year’s summit is targeted at communicating...
This article was published in 2010 – read a new and updated 2015 version here. If you would like further information on managing the complexity of your SAP licensing agreement why not join us at one of our free events taking place this year? For more details visit our Events...
WHAT Microsoft Licensing Boot Camp The Directions on Microsoft Licensing Boot Camp is a two-day workshop that gives you the information you need to intelligently evaluate your Microsoft licensing options and maximize the return on your software investment. Topics: Microsoft licensing...
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. Formalizing an ITAM practice to include a repeatable, auditing process is on most CIO’s lists of things to do. Unfortunately...
The SAM Starter Kit The SAM Starter Kit by Sandi Conrad has been endorsed by Microsoft. Michael Beare, Worldwide Director for SAM, at Microsoft said: “Microsoft is fully supportive of the efforts of The ITAM Review to enhance customer SAM capabilities worldwide. The SAM Starter...
IT Management vendor LANDesk has sold by Emerson to a private equity firm. Brief History Founded 1985 Acquired by Intel to form Intel LANDesk from 1991 to 2002 2002 – 2006 Standalone Company 2006 – Acquired by Avocent (Datacenter tools, KVM etc) 2008 – Avocent...