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This review compares the software recognition capabilities of leading SAM tools against real life customer data This article introduces a new type of review for The ITAM Review in 2015; Lab Tests. Our first lab test will focus on Software Recognition. Our study will be a data driven...
Inventory – the ugly duckling to swan-like process-driven platforms? Over the last few years, there has been a trend within the SAM and ITAM communities to view inventory as a commodity item – the ugly duckling to swan-like process-driven platforms. Unfortunately, this attitude...
What do people mean when they refer to a ‘SKU Catalogue’ for license management? In this article I hope to demonstrate why organizations utilise SKU catalogues, the difference between SKU catalogues and software recognition and the business value to SAM practitioners. Shopping...
This independent review of the Berlin release from ServiceNow is part of our 2012 SAM Tools Review. See all participants and terms of the review here. Executive Summary Elevator Pitch ITAM & ITSM repositories on a common platform Strengths One organically developed cloud...
SAM industry veteran Express Metrix have recently spun-off Apptria, a company specifically focused at providing software recognition capabilities to other ISV’s. Kris Barker, co-founder and CEO of Apptria will be presenting a session at the IAITAM Annual Conference and Exhibition this...
ITAM tool vendor MagniComp has created a utility for generating ISO/IEC 19770-2 conformant software tag files. ‘Software Tag Maker’ is a free web-based application and is specifically aimed at ISV’s (Software Publishers) and IT organizations that wish to create tags. ‘Software...