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Whiteboard Wednesday Episode 8: What is the difference between IT Inventory and Discovery Whiteboard Wednesday is me, a whiteboard and learning about all things IT Asset Management (ITAM), every Wednesday! This week, Inventory and Discovery. What do they mean? Why are they important? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KYqb4SJVpQ Please...
Image credit: Touzrimounir, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Early 2021 has been a busy time for ITAM tool and service providers. We’ve seen announcements from Flexera, Aspera, Ivanti, and Cleanshelf and they all have one thing in common – looking to address the need to integrate...
This article is a collaboration by AJ Witt, The ITAM Review, and Ryan Wood-Taylor, ServiceNow Modern businesses create value anywhere and everywhere, enabled by the technology we as IT Asset Managers govern. However, as we move away from the traditional model of on-premises IT, we...
Excel and other spreadsheets are powerful, universally available tools available for manipulating data. As such, they are popular with the IT Asset Management profession – after all, all that we do is founded upon trustworthy data. As an IT Asset Manager, I probably spent more time...
In this podcast I spoke with Simon White and Jerry Yiu from ServiceNow. We discussed the modern role of a CMDB, Service Graphs and how organisations can benefit from a business view of technical data. Topics : What is a CMDB Service Graph What business value does...
Ahead of our Wisdom Online APAC conference we asked our sponsors ‘What do ITAM managers need to do in 2021?’ Read on to hear what ServiceNow, Airtrack, and Snow have to say about what our focus should be for 2021. How should we adjust to the changes we made to enable our colleagues...
In the lead-up to our APAC conference on the 24th and 25th November I spoke with Sandy Vouch of The Mastermind Group (TMG) in Melbourne, Australia. TMG won Partner of the Year 2020 in the ITAM Review Excellence Awards. In this podcast, topics include: Falling into...
The environmental business benefits of ITAM have historically taken a back seat compared to cost savings and compliance, but the unequivocal evidence of climate change is forcing the world to take a look at the damage being done and take action. A mature ITAM practice has the power...
ITAM teams have a critical role to perform in governing the rapid transformation we’ve seen to remote working worldwide in 2020. In this article we examine what’s changed, where ITAM teams should focus, and what you need to do to get to grips with the world of remote work. What’s...
This article accompanies the series of three webinars the ITAM Review and ServiceNow delivered in May/June 2020. In this series, we set out to provide insight on how to start, optimise and elevate your ITAM program. Introduction 2020 has presented businesses with an unprecedented...