News, reviews and resources for worldwide ITAM, SAM and Licensing professionals.
Our Market Guides provide an overview of solutions to specific ITAM challenges. They aim to cover a wide range of vendors and participation in them is free. Our guides to asset management software and tools sector help to give you the information and data you need to make an informed decision when selecting ITAM software and services.
If you have a solution in one of these ITAM/software asset management categories, contact us and we will be happy to include your product at no charge.
Our recent Market Guides are listed below
This is the third in a series of Market Guides looking at technologies and services that sit adjacent to ITAM in large enterprises. The purpose of this series is to provide an introduction for ITAM professionals to the tools used
This guide to HR Information Systems (HRIS) is the second in a series of Market Guides looking at technologies and services that sit adjacent to ITAM in large enterprises. The purpose of this series is to provide an introduction for
This guide to Identity & Access Management tools is the first in a series of Market Guides looking at technologies and services that sit adjacent to ITAM in large enterprises. The purpose of this series is to provide an introduction
As ITAM teams grow in seniority it becomes increasingly important to focus on the quality and frequency of management reporting. This Market Guide explores tools to help you meet these goals. The need for Management Reporting Driving greater value from
This Market Guide is focused on one of the technologies contributing to convergence between dedicated ITAM teams and other areas of IT Governance. Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) act as an intermediary between users and cloud service providers. Their purpose
Overview This Market Guide provides an overview of vendors and products in the SaaS Subscription Management space. The purpose is to provide you with a long-list of vendors to consider if you are in the market for such a toolset.
This guide looks at tools enabling ITAM-related management of mobile devices. It is primarily focused on tools that enable key parts of the ITAM lifecycle to be performed – in particular Discovery, Inventory, Management, and Retirement. Mobile Device Management for
It is safe to say that Hardware Asset Management is an overlooked, but still vital, part of IT Asset Management. Audit risk and multi-million-pound contracts tend to mean that SAM gets the bulk of a busy ITAM team’s focus. However,
ITAM processes are concerned with discovering, inventorying, and managing IT assets. For large organisations these assets will number in the thousands or tens of thousands. As we move towards managing new asset types such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices
Microsoft, with Office 365, is now the single biggest subscription software (SaaS) provider in terms of revenue. They have added 2 million active users per month every month for the last three years. Whilst others such as Salesforce and Adobe
SAP software continues to dominate the eCommerce and ERP market segments worldwide. It remains the platform of choice for many large, global, organisations. As such, it is deeply-ingrained and essential to the business operations of those organisations. From a software
Salesforce, once the disruptor of the perpetual licensing model, is 20 years old this year. The mother lode of the entire SaaS model and industry is now an institutional behemoth generating over $10bn in revenue worldwide. Their product is ubiquitous
If you deploy Oracle Database products it is critical that you manage them efficiently. Oracle remain very active in initiating license compliance audits with their customers. And if you have a ULA with them you will need to do an
Are you pursuing a Cloud First strategy? Or do you want to avoid the move to subscription-based software licensing for cost or deployment reasons? Secondary (or secondhand) software sales have been legal in the EU since 2012 as a result
Overview This Market Guide provides an overview of vendors and products in the ever-growing IaaS Cloud Management space. The purpose is to provide you with a long-list of vendors to consider if you are in the market for such a