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Try not to map the moon! I suspect the reason many folks get in such a bind with designing a process to handle software requests is that they try and bundle no end of steps into the overall process, including procurement, testing, deployment etc. The trick with process engineering...
The career path to CIO: “Think about value added decisions that can be made as a result of ITAM data – where else in the enterprise might the data we’re discovering allow the business to make smarter choices?” Back in March of last year I wrote of the Skills...
Mobile devices are increasing in popularity within organisations. With so many mobile device types and options currently on the market, organisations are spoilt for choice when choosing what tablet their employees can use, or what mobile phones they are going to give out. Mobile devices...
Mark Sales, Software Asset Manager at Vinci Construction. The ITAM Review Podcast Episode 3 Hosted by Martin Thompson Guests: Mark Sales, Software Asset Manager at Vinci Construction Rory Canavan, Independent Consultant, SAM Charter In this podcast I interviewed Mark Sales, Software...
This is part two of a two-part series on environment recognition. See part one here: ‘Modern SAM requires ‘Environment Recognition’ as much as ‘Software Recognition’. In my last article I explored the concept of ‘environment recognition’. I suggested that modern Software...
Are we reaping the benefits of ITAM and ITSM growing together? In the long (or not so long, if you look at it historically) transition of IT from an inscrutable, arcane new force in corporate America to a routine extension of just about everyone’s experience now from age two and...
When getting started with ITAM you’ve got to first stop the rot! I started my previous article trying to paint a rough picture of what our ITAM estate was like without giving too much away and blowing my secret identity. I was very grateful for the number of responses the article...
Switching off Servers and seeing who complains first/loudest is not recommended! We are not yet at that stage with inventory systems where they can tell us what classification or type of server a particular machine is. Development, Test, Academic, Training or Evaluation installations...
Office for iPad has already moved to the freemium/premium model, with users paying only for consumption What does the future hold for software? How will it be delivered, how will it be priced, and will we ever be able to move to a usage-based pricing model? In my opinion, all enterprise...
Named User Licenses are typically not cheap This is another area of Software Asset Management that often gets over-looked; namely the updating and maintaining of data concerning named user licenses. This could be viewed as another déjà vu moment; insofar as the core of the process...