News, reviews and resources for worldwide ITAM, SAM and Licensing professionals.
Should SaaS Management prioritise risk over cost savings? the cost of a breach from the perspective of PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, or GDPR is going to far outweigh any cost savings you may get from flexing which Office 365 plan your users are on. As Software Asset Managers we are used to...
Ticketmaster UK recently announced that customer credit card and personal data had been compromised. This was due to a security breach at their third-party customer service technology provider, Inbenta. In accordance with GDPR requirements Ticketmaster have notified the Information...
Many ITAM Review readers are yet to get a handle on cloud spend and lack a definitive cloud procurement strategy This article has been contributed by Bali Kuchipudi of SoftwareONE. How to establish accountability for cloud spend We all know that the cloud has vastly changed how...
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...
We are pleased to publish our 2015 review of worldwide SAM Managed Service Providers. Download the full report below (no registration required): https://marketplace.itassetmanagement.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SAM-MSP-2015-Group-Test-15th-October-2015_FINAL.pdf Continued Interest...
Can SAM be done on the cheap? In this Episode David and I are joined by Rory Canavan of SAM Charter and Paul Immergluck of Anglepoint. We discuss ‘Doing SAM on the cheap’ and managing software as an asset when you have no budget. The blog articles referred to in the...
Do your SAM skills stand up to the demands of modern SAM? SAM Skills Workshop Synopsis: The SAM Skills workshop is a free to attend, joint event brought to you by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and The ITAM Review. Run over an afternoon, starting over an informal lunch, we invite...
This Quick Guide is available in PDF format – simply subscribe to our free newsletter to download SAP licensing is one of the most complicated and complex license metrics currently faced by software asset management (SAM) and software licensing professionals. SAP is different...
One of the most asked questions that we, at The ITAM Review, get asked is “How can I prevent being audited?”. The answer is always the same – you can’t. The best thing any organisation can do is being ‘audit ready’. Being ‘audit ready’ requires a proactive SAM estate,...
One of the main aspects of IT Asset Management, also known as ITAM is Software Asset Management (SAM), has seen a large increase in demand and interest in its services in recent years, and SAM professionals are now considered a niche, with established, specialist professionals in...