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  • Market Synopsis: Enterprise SAM Tools

    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 ‘Enterprise SAM’ criteria. The summary for ‘Mid-Market SAM’ can be found here. IMPORTANT:...

  • Why You Should Consider a Software Webshop

    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...

  • Market Synopsis: Mid-Market SAM Tools

    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:...

  • Seven Observations From Reviewing 17 SAM Tools

    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...

  • ISO/IEC 19770 Adoption by SAM Tool Vendors

    During my analysis for the upcoming TOOLS INTELLIGENCE service from The ITAM Review I asked participating SAM vendors about their alignment to the SAM Standard ISO/IEC 19770-1 and -2. The tools are not being specifically scored against the standard (I will be completing this analysis...

  • Market Share Analysis for SAM Tools

    The graphic above provides a snapshot of the key players in the SAM tools market in terms of the number of customers (Blue bars) and the average size of their clients (Red dotted line). So as an example LicenseWatch have 700 customers who manage a total of 680,000 seats giving them...

  • The Ryder Cup For SAM Tools?

    Click To Enlarge I am currently assessing SAM tools for the 2011 SAM Software Review due to be published shortly. Plotting the headquarters for each vendor on a map of the world demonstrates a roughly even split between the Americas and Europe. It will be interesting to see which...

  • An Independent View of The Worldwide SAM Tools Market

    I am in the process of writing an updated version of the SAM Software Tools Review. Last year the report was a deep dive competitive comparison of Express Metrix vs FrontRange Solutions vs Snow Software. This year the scope of the review has expanded to include Enterprise SAM Tools...

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