Best practice

TAM, SAM and software license management are continually-evolving disciplines. At the same time, the remit for ITAM continues to expand as the industry matures. What was cutting edge just a few years ago is ITAM bread-and-butter today. Keep you and your team up-to-date on the latest ITAM practices here.
  • Wisdom NA 2024 primer: How has GCI leveraged generative AI?

    Wisdom NA 2024 primer: How has GCI leveraged generative AI?

    Ahead of his upcoming talk about how GCI leveraged generative AI, we spoke with Matt Graves, VP – Enterprise Data & Analytics to learn a little more. GCI has built models that protect the company’s proprietary ...
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  • Can I run Oracle on Microsoft Azure? Podcast with LicenseFortress and Bridgeton Data

    Can I run Oracle on Microsoft Azure? Podcast with LicenseFortress and Bridgeton Data

    As hybrid environments become the norm within organisations, considering what you can run where is a key component of system architecture and IT Asset Management. In this episode, Rich talks to Dean Bolton from LicenseFortress and ...
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  • Poor inventory data to blame for increased audit costs: Oomnitza survey

    Poor inventory data to blame for increased audit costs: Oomnitza survey

    According to a new survey published today by Oomnitza, roughly half of organizations have experienced a significant increase in their audit budget expenditures due to poor technology inventory data, with 56% of companies reporting that the ...
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  • Wisdom NA 2024 interview: A conversation with Eva Louis about the intricacy of IT and business relationships

    Wisdom NA 2024 interview: A conversation with Eva Louis about the intricacy of IT and business relationships

    This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Eva Louis, Software Asset Manager at Salt River Project, the Arizona electric power and water utility company. We are delighted to welcome Eva as an upcoming speaker ...
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  • ITAMantics podcast - February 2024

    ITAMantics podcast - February 2024

    Welcome to the February 2024 edition of the ITAMantics podcast. In this month’s edition of ITAMantics George and Rich discuss another Quest audit ending up in court, a Slack customer falling foul of Slack’s broken data ...
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  • Rethinking SaaS Procurement: Why Reseller model is ripe for disruption

    Rethinking SaaS Procurement: Why Reseller model is ripe for disruption

    The following article about rethinking SaaS procurement amid the disruption caused by the rise of “citizen SaaS buyers” was written by Nidhi Jain, CEO and Co-founder of CloudEagle. SaaS applications help organizations increase employee productivity, transform ...
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  • Podcast with James Hatcher

    Podcast with James Hatcher

    In our latest podcast, Martin Thompson speaks with James Hatcher from Lansweeper about the value ITAM brings to infosecurity, as well as Lansweeper’s contribution to the Safehouse Initiative, a collaborative organization that brings together vendors to ...
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  • Chatbot Turbulence: Air Canada and its Misguided AI Autopilot

    Chatbot Turbulence: Air Canada and its Misguided AI Autopilot

    Air Canada recently learned that AI chatbots cannot always be trusted… There is a lot of talk about AI within ITAM and how it can help streamline processes, save human time, improve accuracy, and reduce errors ...
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  • Forgotten, but not lost: the critical role of license dongle management

    Forgotten, but not lost: the critical role of license dongle management

    The following article from Abhik Chowdhury, Content Writer at OpenLM explores the critical, but often overlooked, role of license dongle management. If we take into consideration that an enterprise device has, on average, 67 applications installed, and ...
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