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.
  • ServiceNow enters SAM market by the back door, upsets partners

    ServiceNow enters SAM market by the back door, upsets partners

    I’ve heard from ITAM Review readers that ServiceNow is approaching them with a full SAM offering in partnership with another software company. This is in direct competition and conflict to their verified integrations in the ServiceNow ...
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  • Event: ISO/IEC ITAM Standards Summit

    Event: ISO/IEC ITAM Standards Summit

    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, is hosting an industry summit to share the latest developments in ...
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  • Increasing your chances of a favourable audit settlement

    Increasing your chances of a favourable audit settlement

    In this video, Brian Ross Global Audit Director of Veritas Technologies, talks to us about increasing your chances of a favourable audit settlement by maintaining a positive and productive relationship with your vendor. Brian explains that the key is to involve all ...
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  • How to conquer complex licensing

    How to conquer complex licensing

    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 dependencies that exist between data types and ‘How to conquer (or at ...
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  • How SAM empowers CyberSecurity

    How SAM empowers CyberSecurity

    In this video Vincent Smyth, SVP EMEA of Flexera Software shares his opinion on the increased level security risks relating to applications over the past two years, and shares his advice on CyberSecurity for security professionals.   Flexera ...
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  • Quick guide to Microsoft BYOL (Bring your own licensing)

    Quick guide to Microsoft BYOL (Bring your own licensing)

    This quick guide to Microsoft BYOL (Bring Your Own Licensing)  has been contributed by Deepika Shrivastava. Cloud computing has been attributed with increasing competitiveness through cost reduction, greater flexibility, elasticity and optimal resource utilization. With Cloud, there ...
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  • Getting Started with SAM

    Getting Started with SAM

    In this video, Richard Spithoven from b.lay shares his advice for those getting started with Software Asset Management (SAM). Richard covers the three fundamentals of SAM (People, Process and Tools) and shares how a risk assessment should be the ...
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  • ITAM Review Podcast Episode 24: ITAM Futures

    ITAM Review Podcast Episode 24: ITAM Futures

    Ahead of our US & UK Annual Conferences this Autumn, Martin Thompson speaks with three representatives from a few of our Sponsors in the ITAM market who are invested in the growth and futures of ITAM. Martin speaks ...
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  • Microsoft:

    Microsoft: "Shelfware should be conceded"

    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 mistakes. “Bradford said his group, responsible for working with channel firms ...
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