Martin Thompson 
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
We launched a new forum at the start of the year, this is a quick update on progress so far. As we stated in January, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: April 13, 2016
The ITAM Review Podcast: Episode 20 In this podcast I speak with Sanj Sanotra from TmaxSoft. Sanj (an ex-Oracle LMS auditor) and I talk about ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: April 1, 2016
Eric Chiu is our go to guy on IBM licensing. In this video I picked his brains on IBM software audits. Subjects covered: Who starts ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: March 29, 2016
In preparation for the third module of our 12 Box Training Program next week (How to maintain trustworthy inventory data) I spoke with Danny Begg, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: March 22, 2016
This article provides the results of our survey into the ITAM business case from November 2015. Thanks to our friends at Cireson for sponsoring this ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: March 18, 2016
In this podcast I was joined by Eric, Richard and Nico to discuss the software market ahead of our audit defence workshop in Amsterdam on ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: March 14, 2016
Our February webinar for the 12-box training program covered TRANSITION. IT departments are in a constant state of flux and ITAM needs to work with ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: March 11, 2016
The image right (click to enlarge it) is a dummy Oracle review letter from Oracle LMS asking our friends at Browbeaten Corp to participate in ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: March 3, 2016
Accurate hardware records are fundamental to a successful ITAM practice. We can’t save money on hardware and software or meet our governance goals with missing ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 29, 2016
A quick poll during our January webinar revealed that ITAM competing for attention amongst other higher priority initiatives was the most common blocker to senior ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 23, 2016
In preparation for the second module of our 12 Box Training Program next week (How to harness ITAM and ITSM integration) – I spoke with ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 16, 2016
I recently co-authored a whitepaper with Jim Barrett from Dimension Data entitled “Six stages to building a valuable SAM practice”. You can find a direct ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 11, 2016
The process of deploying, provisioning, and supporting applications has been fundamentally changed by the growth in SaaS usage. More applications, more change, more diversity. This whitepaper, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 11, 2016
The ITAM Review’s Salary Survey has delivered its 4th set of results, having first been run in 2014. In addition to providing salary benchmark data, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 11, 2016
We’ve got a lot planned in 2016. This is a quick round up of our plans for research, reviews and events for the year. Research ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 10, 2016
SAMday in Moscow I am pleased to be presenting at ‘SAMday’ being organised by itSMF Russia. ‘SAMday’ takes place on March 23rd at the Aerostar ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 9, 2016
This is a call for tool manufacturers to participate in our independent assessment of the Enterprise SAM tools market. We are well overdue a market-wide ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: February 9, 2016