SaaS usage continues to grow, seemingly outstripping every industry benchmark or estimate. For Software Asset Managers it is undoubtedly here to stay. Whilst perpetual software is usually more cost-effective for long-term predictable deployments such certainty is at a premium...
The latest figures from SaaS Management tool vendor Zylo show that companies are getting worse at SaaS spend management. Typically, tool vendors in this market usually quote 30% wastage as part of their pitch – Zylo’s research shows that figure has risen to 37%.
There are...
If you could choose only one area to focus your SAM efforts on, what should it be? If you’re a large organisation with process-based approaches to IT & Project Management Barry Pilling of Cortex Consulting argues in this video that it should be Datacenter Change. You can hear...
ServiceNow held a launch event on Tuesday 12th September for their London release, skilfully avoiding a scheduling conflict with a slightly bigger event just down the road in Cupertino.
The key components discussed at the launch include:
License Change Projection
Application Lifecycle...
“fishbowl jump” (CC BY 2.0) by Kay Kim(김기웅)
Are you an ITAM tools vendor? Do you provide ITAM Managed Services? Are you a user of an innovative ITAM Tool or Service?
If so, we’re looking for nominations in the ITAM Technology & Service Innovation category of...
At our UK Conference I called for SAM teams to forge strong ties with their colleagues in IT Security and Compliance. My session highlighted how we as SAM managers have much in common in terms of tools and processes with them. We are also seeing former pure-play IT Security vendors...
Should SaaS Management prioritise risk over cost savings? the cost of a breach from the perspective of PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, or GDPR is going to far outweigh any cost savings you may get from flexing which Office 365 plan your users are on.
As Software Asset Managers we are used to...
The ITAM Review are delighted to announce the publication of a Market Guide for SaaS Optimisation & Subscription Management tools. This is the first in a series of Market Guides, to be published monthly, looking at various aspects of the ITAM tools and services market.
Future...
As software vendors seek to migrate customers to subscription-based offerings one tactic they use is to enable currently-owned perpetual licenses to be used in cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service environments such as AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud. The incentive appears to be clear –...
The recent Ticketmaster breach is perhaps the first large-scale breach in our brave new GDPR-regulated world, and it warrants further analysis. As the dust has settled each party has spun the story in a different way, and there has been far more public disclosure of exactly what happened...