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Andy Fisher new business development director for Software Asset Management (SAM) specialist BCS Ltd analyses the “state of the nation” in software compliance control today. It is generally accepted that the global financial crisis is affecting the revenues of all commercial...
Dr. Barbara (Barb) Rembiesa Dr. Barbara (Barb) Rembiesa is the founder and CEO of the International Association of IT Asset Managers, Inc, (IAITAM), a global organisation focused on bringing education and best practice standards to IT asset management. As a staunch ITAM advocate,...
Clive Longbottom, Quocirca Quocirca analyst and technology commentator extraordinaire Clive Longbottom has seen a few IT asset management scenarios come and go in his time. Appropriately then, the ITAM Review now gets to quiz Longbottom on his recent white paper entitled Don’t sweat...
In the style of the ‘7 Habits’ series of motivational writing, The ITAM Review decided to run a feature to discuss and analyse the 7 Habits of Highly Effective IT Asset Managers (Read the original LinkedIn discussion thread here). Our goal from the outset was to try and pin down...
By Adrian Bridgwater, Editor. Can a LinkedIn discussion transmogrify into a technical analysis editorial piece? That is what I wanted to find out by starting some level of discussion on the ITAM Review’s LinkedIn conversation board when I suggested that it might be prudent to...
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...
Iterative Steps Chris Borkert from Linium will be presenting a session entitled ‘Managing a SAM Tool Implementation – Organizing for Maximum Effectiveness’ at the IAITAM Conference and Exhibition (ACE) next month. I recently corresponded with Chris regarding his upcoming session...
Sherry Irwin, TAM Inc. Sherry Irwin of Technology Asset Management Inc. will be sharing her views of Vendor Lifecycle Management at the IAITAM Annual Conference and Exhibition on the 13th October. Sherry has kindly shared an overview of her methodology. ITAM Review Q: Please describe...
Building Long Term Mutually Beneficial Relationships By Martin Chalkley, Regular columnist and ITAM Review Analyst. See other articles from Martin here. Asset Management as a discipline is likely to touch not only several internal stakeholders and customers, but also a number...