The ITAM Review offers the latest news and insights within the ITAM field to keep you informed of the latest updates and best practices in the area. Our newsroom covers important topics in IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management and Software Licensing.
Below you will find all of our articles in chronological order, then filtered into four main categories: News & Analysis, Best Practice, Audits and Software Publishers.
Today is a milestone for the ITAM industry and profession. The ITAM Forum has acquired the ITAM Review and LISA. Together, we’ll be able to create a strong, engaged, and passionate world-wide ITAM community that drives ...
This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Eva Louis, Software Asset Manager at Salt River Project, the Arizona ...
ITAM Insights 2023 report
Disruption comes in threes: Double-digit software price rises, “license gouging” and vendor M&A activity creates uncertainty for CIOs and ITAM in 2023. Read our analysis of the "stories that shook the ITAM world," - a collation of the most notable ITAM events from the last 12 months and analysis of their impact going forward.
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 ...
This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Eva Louis, Software Asset Manager at Salt River Project, the Arizona ...
FinOps Guide for ITAM Managers: Free download
Successfully bridging the gap between ITAM & FinOps will be a huge boost to ITAM within any organisation, and bring demonstrable business benefits too. To help ITAM managers better understand and navigate FinOps, we have created this short, FREE guide for our readers.
Today is a milestone for the ITAM industry and profession. The ITAM Forum has acquired the ITAM Review and LISA. Together, we’ll be able to create a strong, engaged, and passionate world-wide ITAM community that drives ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On the 15th February, Flexera confirmed it had completed the acquisition of Snow Software. You can read our analysis of the original acquisition announcement here. “Flexera has long admired Snow’s great products, customer value realization, talented employees, ...
Last month we published our analysts’ predictions for what to expect in ITAM in 2024. Gazing into their crystal balls, Rich and AJ could see a year in which AI continues to mature and deliver innovations ...
Will human capital shape the course of the tech channel in 2024?
The following article from Hayley Mooney, GM UK at Crayon explores the biggest trends shaping the tech channel in 2024, including the growing role of AI in ITAM, addressing the tech skills shortage, and the positive ...
This section combines news with our analysis of issues affecting the ITAM industry, including software publisher stories, ITAM/SAM tools developments and launches, mergers & acquisitions and any other IT news which is pertinent for the ITAM professional to know about.
Today is a milestone for the ITAM industry and profession. The ITAM Forum has acquired the ITAM Review and LISA. Together, we’ll be able to create a strong, engaged, and passionate world-wide ITAM community that drives ...
This section combines news with our analysis of issues affecting the ITAM industry, including software publisher stories, ITAM/SAM tools developments and launches, mergers & acquisitions and any other IT news which is pertinent for the ITAM professional to know about.
Below you will find all of our articles in chronological order, then filtered into four main categories: News & Analysis, Best Practice, Audits and Software Publishers.
Today is a milestone for the ITAM industry and profession. The ITAM Forum has acquired the ITAM Review and LISA. Together, we’ll be able to create a strong, engaged, and passionate world-wide ITAM community that drives ...
This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Eva Louis, Software Asset Manager at Salt River Project, the Arizona ...
As IT spending shifts to the cloud, ITAM must evolve
As IT spending shifts to the cloud, ITAM must evolve. In this article we explore the implications for ITAM of the main findings from Flexera’s 2022 Tech Spend Pulse, where the top priorities for technology initiatives continue to focus on digital transformation, cybersecurity and cloud/cloud migration.
ITAM, 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.
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 ...
This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Eva Louis, Software Asset Manager at Salt River Project, the Arizona ...
How to reduce e-waste – ITAM’s role in meeting sustainability goals
A recent report & survey by the UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has highlighted the growing problem of how to reduce e-waste and how we can do more to reduce consumption of rare earth metals and shore up overstretched supply chains.
Forewarned is forearmed. Get the latest news and advice on the ever-present challenge of software publisher audits here. Who is auditing right now? How and when should you respond to an audit? Stick here to stay informed on the latest audit trends, patterns and behaviours.
A Quest Software audit is in court (again). Here I am, back with another story of a software vendor treating one of their customers in such a way that the whole thing ends up in a ...
Welcome to the August edition of ITAMantics, our monthly news podcast where we discuss the biggest ITAM stories. We may ...
Podcast Episode 117: Protect against stealth software audits
In this latest podcast I sit down once again with four great guests to discuss the prospect of "stealth audits". In this action-packed discussion we cover Oracle, audit tactics, court cases, recent acquisitions, contract terms and much more. We also talk about new terms to best describe modern software audits (stealth software audits?).
Licence management is the mainstay of many ITAM roles, so it is important to stay informed on the latest software publisher news. We aim to keep our readers informed on the latest developments at tier 1, 2 and 3 software publishers, combined with analysis of how it will affect ITAM professionals.
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 ...
Mere weeks after completing its acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has announced some very significant changes to VMware licensing. Effective immediately, ...
Rich is once again joined by the experts from LicenseFortress and Beeman & Muchmore – this time to examine the ...
Opentext acquires Micro Focus: Audits ahead?
You’ll be pleased to know that a company known for their aggressive audit tactics have bought another company known for their aggressive audit tactics…OpenText will acquire Micro Focus for $6 billion USD. The acquisition is expected to close in Q1 2023, subject to approvals.
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