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I’m writing this blog following recent news of a dispute between Microsoft and second-hand licensing specialist Discount Licensing. In particular, I’m keen to publish an independent message in light of the nonsense being stated by FAST in the press over the last few days. I’ve...
Avoid unnecessary costs Oracle is a key software publisher in the datacentre and for many organizations represents a large proportion of their software spend and an essential part of their IT infrastructure. Taking the right approach to Oracle licensing is vital; a poorly managed...
This is our first foray into Podcasting, so forgive me if it’s a bit rough around the edges. In this session we delve into Oracle, Oracle Licensing and Oracle License Management. Thanks very much to our guests and Oracle experts: Piaras MacDonnell, Craig Guarente and Richard Spithoven...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! As 2013 begins to draw to a close, I thought it would be nice to finish off the year with a final article that’s an overview of what has happened at the ITAM Review over the last 12 months. That’s right, this will be our last post for 2013...
This is one of those “fly-wheel” processes in SAM that doesn’t often exist, but can seriously punch above its own weight. Maintaining a Supported Software Catalogue takes SAM audit and reconciliation data beyond pure SAM boundaries, and can feed Business Intelligence back...
In a recent article on process of the month, we looked at a process to address the recycling of software licences on an IT estate, based on the assumption that the hardware was live, and was remaining with the company and also that the software was not being used in a 90 day period. However,...
Oracle announced back in 2010 that it would begin to verify the data provided by ITAM tools. Oracle is notoriously difficult to manage from an ITAM perspective because Oracle products don’t install like most other publishers (no .exes to track in your inventory tool) and the configuration...
The Enterprise Strikes Back Grant Brierly, who ran the EMEA business for Express Metrix for a decade, has started a new venture which promises to be the ‘Corporate eBay’ for software licensing. The “Corporate Licensing Exchange” (I-CLX) trading platform for...
“Heterogeneity on this scale creates both technical and licensing challenges for enterprises to overcome.” Analysts have predicted that in the next two years, over half of a company’s IT applications will be located in the ‘cloud’. This has significant implications...
Last week, the BSA, the trade group representing software vendors, announced the appointment of Victoria Espinel as its new President and Chief Executive. Under recently departed predecessor Robert Holleyman, the organization grew over several decades, from a tiny office to a major...