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Battenberg: ITAM jargon busted via the medium of Cake In the ITAM Review radio show for May 2020 the team discuss working Microsoft’s short lived covid gesture, target operating models and the Software Asset Manager role at Metro Bank in the UK. Agenda: Scaremongering of the...
This article is collaboration between AJ Witt, The ITAM Review, and Maarten Saeys, Head of Product Marketing, Lansweeper At its annual Inspire conference this year, Microsoft formally announced that development for MAP Toolkit, a widely used inventory tool for Microsoft environments,...
This article “Ten Questions to ask your SaaS vendor” has been co-authored by AJ Witt, The ITAM Review and Dusan Omercevic, CEO & Founder of Cleanshelf Executive Summary SaaS spending is growing rapidly. By 2020, it will overtake spending on on-premises, perpetually-licensed...
In a recent announcement, Microsoft have revealed changes to several Software Assurance benefits, with the first changes happening in February 2020 (just 5 months from now). While there doesn’t appear to be one place with all the information, I’ve done my best to bring it together...
Industry news, job of the week, jargonbuster – plus the importance of change management The ITAM Review Monthly Radio Show starring (in order of appearance): Martin Thompson Geoff Worsley Stuart Pomfrett AJ Witt Barry Pilling David Foxen August 2019 topics include: Microfocus...
Earlier in 2019, we saw the introduction of the “Microsoft Customer Agreement” (MCA) – a new agreement aimed at customers buying Azure directly from Microsoft, but that also featured a new type and style of agreement. It was then announced that the Microsoft Customer Agreement...
I met with Patama Chantaruck back in 2017, former global Microsoft SAM lead, who was honest enough to admit that Microsoft had confused their customers and partners, using the word SAM to represent soft audits and compliance reviews. “…and it was clear she was well aware of how...
Microsoft and Oracle make friends? Splinter and Shredder. Odysseus and Poseidon. Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira. There are some people you just wouldn’t expect to see on the same team. When it comes to the world of software, Microsoft and Oracle are definitely on that list. Two behemoths...
This article was written by Rich Gibbons of ITAM Review and Noel Unwin of Discount Licensing. In July 2012, the second-hand software market received a definitive answer from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) when it ruled that reselling intangible software was legal. The rights...
April’s Market Guide looks at options for Office 365 optimisation. With Microsoft becoming the single largest SaaS provider it is likely that they will be the first enterprise-wide SaaS vendor IT Asset Managers need to get to grips with. Salesforce and Adobe may have been the...