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April saw the release of Gartner’s 2nd Magic Quadrant for SAM tools. Magic Quadrants aim to highlight solutions to a particular requirement by ranking them on two dimensions – completeness of vision and ability to deliver. As ITAM grows in maturity...
A quick round-up of ITAM industry news:
UK SAM Services company Livingstone Technologies acquires USA SAM Services company Siwel. A great move – I’ve spoken to a number of Fortune 500 companies seeking the services of an independent provider (No commercial bias from selling SAM...
The Secondary Software Market, created by an EU-ruling in 2012, is not just about sourcing second-hand copies of old licenses, or getting some money back for your now redundant Office licenses. In preparing a guide to this market I interviewed David Chamberlain, General Manager of...
This article has been contributed by David Chamberlain of License Dashboard
Software Compliance plays a leading role in both ITAM and SAM, with business decisions made and risks mitigated on its very calculation. Inaccuracies on either side of the compliance equation – that is,...
We are very pleased to welcome Libby Phillipps to the ITAM Review team as Marketing Manager.
Libby Phillipps
Libby Phillipps, Marketing Manager
Libby is a friendly, approachable marketeer who will talk to anyone about marketing trends and dogs! Libby has over six years experience...
Bytes MD Neil Murphy claimed the deal would “Boost revenues to more than £400m”.
Bytes UK have acquired Phoenix Software and License Dashboard.
Bytes have bought “the Blenheim group”; a holding company for the SAM technology and services provider License Dashboard and the...
What is the brick wall stopping your progress with ITAM?
If your organization is running an in-house Software Asset Management program, the chances are your SAM team can boil their activity down to one thing: Compliance.
Ensuring your organization isn’t under-licensed (and...
We’re back!
Due to the unfortunate timing of ‘Storm Juno’ that struck on our last visit to New York, we are returning on May 12th to host our FREE to attend ITAM Tools Day Event. This is a unique opportunity for professionals to get together and see the leading...
Ahead of our ITAM Tools Day event in New York later this month Martin Thompson and David Foxen talk with guests about building the business case for SAM tools, implementation resources required, techniques and gotchas for successful implementation and SAM tool futures – cloud,...
The SAM manager is embedded in SAM every day. They know what it entails. Their job can feel like an uphill struggle against numerous forces inside and outside the organization.
As we all know, managing an organization’s licenses is no mean feat. It is a complex balancing act where...