Best practice

ITAM, SAM and Software Licensing continually evolve. And, at the same time, ITAM's remit 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 best practices.
  • Maximise Software Cost Savings By Applying Product Use Rights (Part 2/5)

    This article series has been contributed by John Emmitt at ManageSoft. Software Asset Management (SAM) is a complex process that enables organizations to gain control of their software estate from both a license compliance and financial ...
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  • Maximise Software Cost Savings By Applying Product Use Rights (Part 1/5)

    This article series has been contributed by John Emmitt at ManageSoft. Software Asset Management (SAM) is a complex process that enables organizations to gain control of their software estate from both a license compliance and financial ...
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  • ITAM: A Prerequisite for Building a CMDB (Part 6/6) – “Back to the Apollo 13 Story"

    This article series has been contributed by Peter Salfi at Provance. In this series Peter explains why an Asset Registry, created within an IT Asset Management program, comprised of the appropriate mix of people, process and ...
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  • Raising The Bar for Auditing Virtual Applications

    Most ITAM vendors are still playing catch-up when it comes to managing and auditing virtual environments and ‘cloud’ based applications. Applications delivered via a virtual platform of some form still represent a minority in comparison to ...
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  • ITAM Metrics

    This article has been contributed by Sherry Irwin. Sherry is president of Technology Asset Management Inc and Founder and Chair of the Canadian IT Asset Management Users’ Group (CITAMUG).
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  • ITAM: A Prerequisite for Building a CMDB (Part 5/6) – “Summary of Comparisons – ITSM vs. ITAM"

    This article series has been contributed by Peter Salfi at Provance. In this series Peter explains why an Asset Registry, created within an IT Asset Management program, comprised of the appropriate mix of people, process and ...
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  • ISO/IEC 19770 Standard Update - Turning Theory Into Practice

    ISO/IEC 19770-2 Published After three years of work the ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard has been published by ISO. I think this is a great initiative and the team behind the ISO standard have done some great work. ...
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  • ITAM: A Prerequisite for Building a CMDB (Part 4/6) – “Why Building a CMDB is Challenging"

    This article series has been contributed by Peter Salfi at Provance. In this series Peter explains why an Asset Registry, created within an IT Asset Management program, comprised of the appropriate mix of people, process and ...
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  • Open Source ITAM Software

    I recently corresponded with Marc Chisinevski about his open source ITAM Software project. Q. What is your current role? An important part of my role as security manager is to identify, evaluate, track and classify company ...
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