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Make 2017 “The SAM Year” for your Organization Many organizations are overspending on Software and at the same time are at risk of non-compliance by not keeping their Software Assets & Usage under control. Below provides an overview of key SAM Focus Areas worth tackling in...
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...
SAM Tool Selection Kit I’m pleased to share a SAM Tool Selection Tool Kit for ITAM Review readers facing the challenge of the SAM tool selection process. The RFI Questionnaire in the kit is the same questionnaire we used for the SAM Tools Universe report, an independent review...
In this video Filipa Preston, CEO of Software Optimization Services (SOS), shares why she believes user management is a growing priority for Software Asset Managers. SOS are based out of Perth in Australia and won the Microsoft SAM Partner of the Year 2016. Key talking points: Cost...
In this video Vincent Smyth, SVP EMEA of Flexera Software shares his opinion on the increased level security risks relating to applications over the past two years, and shares his advice on CyberSecurity for security professionals. Flexera Software are Gold Sponsors and...
In this video, Richard Spithoven from b.lay shares his advice for those getting started with Software Asset Management (SAM). Richard covers the three fundamentals of SAM (People, Process and Tools) and shares how a risk assessment should be the first task during SAM tool selection. Richard...
Cloud Management – How management of Azure fits within the ServiceNow portfolio (CLICK TO ENLARGE) ServiceNow adds management of Azure Yesterday, ServiceNow announced support for Microsoft Azure within their cloud management platform. This is incremental to existing coverage...
One of my first blog posts on The ITAM Review back in 2008 referred to inventory accuracy and total number of assets. An accurate, up-to-date and dynamic view of the total number of IT hardware assets in an organisation is probably the most basic of ITAM metrics to monitor. “IT...
The ITAM Review Podcast: Episode 20 Sanj Santora, TmaxSoft In this podcast I speak with Sanj Sanotra from TmaxSoft. Sanj (an ex-Oracle LMS auditor) and I talk about his experiences at Oracle. Sanj suggests that the majority of Oracle’s current cloud sales in the UK are offered as...
In preparation for the first module of our 12 Box Training Program this week I spoke with Tony Crawley, Managing Director of Synyega and winner of both the ITAM Professional of the Year 2015 and the ITAM Project of the Year 2015. In this video Tony talks about his experiences communicating...