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.
I conducted a brief straw poll on vendor audit activity back in July. Thank you to everyone that took part, I apologise for the delay ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: December 2, 2010
The ITAM Review is two years old this month. A continued big thank you to all the readers, contributors, clients and supporters who have helped ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: November 23, 2010
The tweet above came the BSA reporting from the Gartner IT Financial, Procurement and Asset Management Summit in San Diego last week. Let’s hope this ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: November 22, 2010
Last week saw the welcome return of the UK FAST Conference after a four year sabbatical. FAST Ltd is part of IRIS and provides software, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: November 11, 2010
Plymouth City Council have saved £494,000 by reviewing their Microsoft licensing strategy. With a population of 256,000 Plymouth is the largest city on England’s south ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: November 2, 2010
The graphic above provides a snapshot of the key players in the SAM tools market in terms of the number of customers (Blue bars) and ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: October 14, 2010
I am currently assessing SAM tools for the 2011 SAM Software Review due to be published shortly. Plotting the headquarters for each vendor on a ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: October 12, 2010
I am in the process of writing an updated version of the SAM Software Tools Review. Last year the report was a deep dive competitive ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: September 28, 2010
WHAT After a 4 year sabbatical, the FAST Annual Conference returns in 2010 with ‘The Complexity of Change’ a one day event for IT Directors, ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: September 14, 2010
According to the blurb on the back cover, ‘Owning ITIL’ by Rob England, is aimed at ‘all decision makers who are presented with an ITIL ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: September 8, 2010
In my survey of regular readers of the ITAM Review 64% consider a Forum to be either important or very important. I believe it would ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: September 7, 2010
WHAT The ITAM Review is very pleased to be an officical media partner for the Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit 2010. WHO ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: September 6, 2010
WHAT Microsoft Licensing Boot Camp The Directions on Microsoft Licensing Boot Camp is a two-day workshop that gives you the information you need to intelligently ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 31, 2010
IT Management vendor LANDesk has sold by Emerson to a private equity firm. Brief History Founded 1985 Acquired by Intel to form Intel LANDesk from ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 26, 2010
If you are responsible for application management, application delivery or building a business case for virtualization I recommend you take a look at Centrix. Two ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 24, 2010
The new ITAM Review vendor directory has now been live for three months. It currently has 86 different asset management software vendors from around the ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 23, 2010
This article has been contributed by Christine Headford, CTO at RMS Services. While a few years ago you might have been able to justify buying ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 19, 2010
It is great to see IAITAM booking a heavy hitter to keynote their annual conference this year. Andy Andrews is a New York Times best ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 18, 2010
Global reseller Insight are gaining traction with their Microsoft Cloud offering following a concerted effort across 22 countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Some ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: August 9, 2010
I have been invited to speak at a webinar next week entitled “From Adobe to Oracle: Preventing & Preparing for a Vendor Software Audit”. My ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: July 22, 2010