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This independent review of AppClarity and Shopping from 1E is part of our 2012 SAM Tools Review. See all participants and terms of the review here. Executive Summary Elevator Pitch AppClarity – Plug-in for SCCM for automatic reclaim of unused software. Shopping – Enterprise...
The results of the Inventory and Discovery Tools Group Test are now live. The vendors featured in this review are BDNA, FrontRange Solutions, HP, iQuate, Nexthink, Numara Software and ServiceNow. Please visit this page to view the results. In summary, The ITAM Review has flipped...
I am in the process of reviewing five seven eight market leading SCCM ITAM plug-ins. The tentative list of vendors participating in alphabetical order is as follows: 1E Assetlabs BDNA License Dashboard LicenseWatch Nexthink Provance Snow Microsoft System Center is a popular platform,...
Root Cause Analysis not Bandaids If organizations are to escape the painful cycle of firefighting against software audits and progress towards fully-fledged software asset management the focus needs to be on managing and acting on exceptions. That is, identifying where leakages in...
This article was originally posted in 2011. We’d love your feedback on what’s changed, is this article even relevant any more? Let us know in the comments section below. If you would like to hear more about SAM Tools The ITAM Review are holding a free Tools Day in New...
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:...
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...
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...