AJ Witt 
At our UK Conference I called for SAM teams to forge strong ties with their colleagues in IT Security and Compliance. My session highlighted how ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: August 31, 2018
As Software Asset Managers we are used to managing both risk and cost. Whilst the two go hand in hand when managing perpetually licensed software ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: August 23, 2018
The ITAM Review are delighted to announce the publication of a Market Guide for SaaS Optimisation & Subscription Management tools. This is the first in ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 26, 2018
As software vendors seek to migrate customers to subscription-based offerings one tactic they use is to enable currently-owned perpetual licenses to be used in cloud ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 19, 2018
The recent Ticketmaster breach is perhaps the first large-scale breach in our brave new GDPR-regulated world, and it warrants further analysis. As the dust has ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 10, 2018
Single Sign On (SSO) provides a quick and secure way to log in to multiple services using a single username and password. Perhaps surprisingly, it ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 4, 2018
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 ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 3, 2018
IT Security vendor Qualys have added Asset Inventory to their Cloud Platform. They may be an unfamiliar vendor for IT Asset Managers but are leaders ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: June 14, 2018
Baseline SAM is about reconciling what you own against what you’re using. ITAM tool vendors have mastered this for software installed on devices ranging from ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: June 7, 2018
SaaS Management is the process by which ITAM techniques are used to discover, track, control, and optimise subscriptions made to Software-as-a-Service applications. Most ITAM tool ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: May 31, 2018
Aspera are offering a financial “guarantee” for purchasers of their Oracle SAM Managed Service. “For customers that use a combination of LicenseControl for Oracle plus ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: May 17, 2018
Following ServiceNow’s acquisition of VendorHawk in late April Flexera have followed suit with their acquisition this week of Meta SaaS. Clearly this is a market ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: May 3, 2018
This article has been put together to help shape AJ Witt’s session at the 2018 UK Conference – I never learned anything from a win. ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: May 1, 2018
Gartner this week published their first ever research into the SAM Tools marketplace and the results are a mix of surprises and expectations. It is ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: April 20, 2018
(This article was updated on the 13 May 2025.) The asset naming conventions of the early 2010s were designed for static, on-premises IT infrastructures. Today, ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: January 17, 2011