Martin Thompson 
UPDATE: Event cancelled due to insufficient interest. A public event to discuss ISO/IEC ITAM Standards Working Group 21 (WG21), the group that develops ITAM standards, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 30, 2016
The ITAM Review Excellence Awards return for 2016, and I’m delighted to share that we’ve received double the amount of nominations as last year, with ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 24, 2016
Our 12-box training module back in June covered ‘How to sweat software assets’ and manage entitlement, this month we extend the topic by looking at the ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 9, 2016
Mark Bradford, UK head of Software Asset Management (SAM) and Compliance at Microsoft, suggests that Shelfware should be conceded and customers should not be punished for honest ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: July 19, 2016
In the video below I interview Filipa Preston, CEO of Software Optimization Services from Perth in Australia. Filipa describes her recent Microsoft 2016 SAM Partner of ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: July 11, 2016
I was lucky enough to visit Utrecht in the Netherlands recently to see the nice folks from b.lay, one of the winners of the ITAM Review ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: June 28, 2016
In this Podcast, Martin Thompson is joined by Danny Begg, SAM Technical Specialist at HRG and Rory Canavan, Owner at SAM Charter to discuss the all things ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: June 24, 2016
Please participate in our Audit Census The purpose of this survey is to investigate current software audit activity. This research revisits themes from our software ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: June 20, 2016
Our 12-box training module last month covered automation and the ITAM request process (82% of you told us you had semi-automated ITAM requests, 18% ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: June 16, 2016
I’ll be hosting a panel session at our conferences later this year entitled “The ITAM department of the future – from administration to leadership”. In preparation ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 27, 2016
In preparation for our training session next week I’ve included a link to an Asset Request cheat sheet. This includes things to think about when ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 20, 2016
ServiceNow adds management of Azure Yesterday, ServiceNow announced support for Microsoft Azure within their cloud management platform. This is incremental to existing coverage for Amazon ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 19, 2016
During my current review of 10 SAM Tools for large enterprises – the issue of publisher certification has been raised. This is when a software ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 17, 2016
Back in October 2014 we published a comparison of four SAM tools with Microsoft License Management capabilities (See: Microsoft License Management Group Test – The ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 16, 2016
Enterprise application stores or online asset request systems are a win-win. They present a great opportunity to automate ITAM, alleviate the ITAM team of customer ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 13, 2016
This quick guide is to accompany module 4 of The ITAM Review 12 Box Training program “How to build a three year ITAM roadmap”. Further ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 3, 2016
I’m midway through a competitive comparison of the top ten SAM tools for large enterprises. See the original call for participants here and recent market share ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: April 28, 2016
I’m midway through a competitive comparison of the top ten SAM tools for large enterprises. See the original call for participants here. As part of ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: April 22, 2016
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 ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: April 19, 2016
Our friends at the big G state that spending on public cloud is growing five times faster than other IT categories (Gartner, Public Cloud Services ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: April 15, 2016