This section combines news with our analysis of issues affecting the ITAM industry, including software publisher stories, ITAM/SAM tools developments and launches, and mergers & acquisitions.
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.
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has found an engineering design company to be non-compliant on Autodesk software, resulting in a payout of over £30k. Project ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: June 18, 2014
Ahead of the SAM Summit taking place in Chicago, 23-25 June, I chatted to John Emmitt, Senior Marketing Manager at Flexera Software. In this interview John ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: June 13, 2014
Thank you to everyone that participated in the reader survey last month. I’m pleased to share the results below based on 233 participants. Key talking ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: June 11, 2014
Martin Thompson will be presenting an itSMF Masterclass on the 17th June at the itSMF UK offices in Wokingham focussed on Software Asset Management. This will ... Read more
Written by: Sophie Danby
Published on: June 10, 2014
It is my pleasure to announce that we will be the Media Partner for the SAM Summit, 23-25 June 2014, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center ... Read more
Written by: Sophie Danby
Published on: June 3, 2014
eTelligent provide a SaaS based ITAM platform for management of hardware and software. Based in the US, eTelligent provide their technology as part of a ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: June 3, 2014
Samanage, the cloud based IT service desk and asset management solution has announced a number of new features to their solution, including a new Automatic ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: May 29, 2014
Founded in 1989, SHI is a $5BN provider of IT products and services and includes 1,800 staff serving over 10,000 customers worldwide. With 44 full ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 28, 2014
We were commissioned to review Snow Software’s License Manager in March this year. You can download a copy of the review here. Our review identified ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 26, 2014
Microsoft is one of, if not the biggest and most used software vendors currently on the market. They provide a variety of desktop and server ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: May 14, 2014
I have been asked to present at the BCS Configuration Management annual conference on the 10th June. For my presentation I would like to explore ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 13, 2014
Ahead of the IAITAM Spring Conference taking place in Las Vegas, April 28 – May 1, I interviewed Samuel Peery, Director of Marketing at WhiteCanyon Software, about his presentation “Auditing ... Read more
Written by: Sophie Danby
Published on: April 23, 2014
I am very pleased to welcome David Foxen to the team! David is joining us as ITAM Research Analyst and is our 5th employee! Who is David? ... Read more
Written by: Sophie Danby
Published on: April 15, 2014
Ahead of the IAITAM Spring Conference taking place in Las Vegas, April 28 – May 1, I interviewed Robbie Plourde, VP of Consulting and Services at Aspera, about his ... Read more
Written by: Sophie Danby
Published on: April 4, 2014
Ahead of the IAITAM Spring Conference taking place in Las Vegas, April 28 – May 1, I interviewed Diederik Van der Sijpe, Director at Deloitte, about his presentation ... Read more
Written by: Sophie Danby
Published on: April 3, 2014
Ahead of the BCS Configuration Management event in York on 1st May, I interviewed regular ITAM contributor Kylie Fowler about her involvement in the event, ... Read more
Written by: Sophie Danby
Published on: April 2, 2014
Ahead of the IAITAM Spring Conference taking place in Las Vegas, April 28 – May 1, I interviewed Shaghaghi Shahryar, Partner and Jessica Allen, Manager at Kurt Salmon about their presentation ... Read more
Written by: Sophie Danby
Published on: March 25, 2014
IT Asset Management Solutions (ITAMS) is an independent UK based ITAM specialist and veteran of the UK SAM Industry. The team consists of 25 full ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: March 21, 2014
Ahead of the IAITAM Spring Conference, and his presentation on “ITIL – where is the strategy?”, Brian Johnson, Vice President at CA Technologies talks about the requirement ... Read more
Written by: Guest Contributor
Published on: March 10, 2014
Computacenter is a £3BN IT infrastructure services business with 12,000 employees across Europe. They have developed some modular asset management services for clients struggling with ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: March 10, 2014