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New Broom, New Era According to my Las Vegas taxi driver, an event needs to be over 50,000 people before it makes an impact on the party town. So whilst ServiceNow’s “Knowledge 18” conference might have only made a tiny ripple on the Vegas map with a mind-boggling 18,000 delegates,...
A lifecycle that is too often ignored is that of the end user. Within ITAM, we will react to software and hardware installations, patches and upgrades with an operational efficiency that can appear automated. Yet when it comes to moving or recovering those IT assets in respect...
Spectre and Meltdown, two major CPU based vulnerabilities recently discovered by Google’s “Project Zero” team, have caused quite the stir over the first couple of weeks of 2018. Spectre and Meltdown, two major CPU based vulnerabilities recently discovered by Google’s “Project...
In this video, Colin Simmons, IT Asset Manager of Kingfisher IT Services speaks about the ITAM Teams and Stakeholders and describes the relationship between the two. Colin, a 2016 ITAM Review Lifetime Achievement Award winner, shares how your actual “TEAM” extends beyond...
This article suggests a four-step process for managing SAP users and indirect access. It is a mixture of feedback from our SIG calls on SAP Indirect Access and ITAM Best Practice using the ITAM Review’s 12 Box Methodology. The article is designed to accompany our webinar on the...
Last week was the ITAM Review 2017 UK conference. This was my first, proper, SAM focused, end-user conference and it was fantastic. The overarching theme was “ITAM in the Cloud Era” and the presentations, sessions and conversations were very interesting and enlightening. One...
In this podcast I am joined by ITAM Review supporter and contributor, Danny Begg. Danny currently works as a SAM Technical Specialist at Home Retail Group PLC so I was keen to learn more about the companies approach to SAM and how he manages spend outside of the IT department. Podcast...
In the lead up to our global Conferences, owner and founder of The ITAM Review – Martin Thompson posed the following discussion points to our Conference Sponsor experts: ‘What will the world of ITAM look like in a future of hybrid cloud, internet connected devices and...
The Internet of Things revolution is fundamentally transforming businesses. The massive influx of IoT devices (all of which are basically computers) will save time and money and provide better value to customers, employees and other stakeholders. McKinsey estimates that IoT will create...
In this Podcast, I am joined by Podcast regular – Kylie Fowler, Principle Consultant at ITAM Intelligence to pick her brains on all things XaaS. Podcast Topics About Kylie Kylies view of the XaaS market How ITAM should prepare for this transition (skills) Qualities / management...