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The Emperor's New Clothes is a short tale by Hans Christian Anderson about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child...
The relationship between IT asset management, finance and procurement is the subject of the upcoming Gartner summit (10-11 October in London) and builds on recent research into the growing importance and inter-relation of these three topics. So with this in mind here are some thoughts...
View of the London Eye, Big Ben and Westminster Bridge over the Thames WHAT The ITAM Review is very pleased to be an official media partner for the Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit 2011 (EMEA). WHERE Park Plaza, Westminister Bridge, 200 Westminister...
Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center WHAT The ITAM Review is very pleased to be an official media partner for the Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit 2012 (USA). WHO Gartner “This summit pulls together and creates a setting for the IT financial,...
ITAM Review readers kindly helped with a survey last year compiled by Victoria Barber from Gartner. The survey results were discussed at the EMEA Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management in London last year and Victoria also produced a paper based on the results. I...
"Show me the money!" ~ Tom Cruise I studied Economics at University many moons ago. So I felt a mixture of both fascination and nostalgia when Gartner Analyst Stewart Buchanan started using demand and supply curves to describe the business value of SAM. I attended the London...
WHAT Gartner Local SAM Briefings in Helsinki, Stockholm, London and Lisbon. “A License to Cost Money? – Get Software Costs Under Control!” Summary: What your organization would like to pay for software is not necessarily what it will cost you. Even the best software contract...
Cracks In The Paywall? It appears Gartner are banging the new business drum and are a offering 90 day trial access to their online research. Visit this page to claim your 90 day subscription (NOT an affiliate link) View this video to learn more about the offer. I’m not a Gartner...
Gartner have released a new Market Scope for ITAM repositories. As with the Gartner 2010 MarketScope, I found the industry snapshot more useful than the vendor analysis. Patricia Adams states the market has shrunk ‘to less than $400m’. This may be true for the big four conglomerates...
Alexa Bona, Research VP, IT Asset Management, Gartner After nearly two decades of Gartner IT Financial, Procurement and Asset Management Summits in the US, Gartner have brought the format to EMEA. The first EMEA Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit will...