ITAM news & analysis

Our aim is to keep you informed and updated. Our analysts cover IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, Hardware Asset Management, AI, FinOps, GreenOps, Sustainability, Software Licensing, and more. 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.
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    Broadcom vs Siemens AG - A Brewing Storm

    The ongoing legal battle between VMware (under Broadcom ownership) and Siemens is yet another example of why ITAM goes far beyond license compliance and SAM. What might, at first glance, appear to be a licensing dispute, ...
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  • ITAM Evolution: Embracing Necessary Change for a Prosperous Future

    The value of ITAM is under great scrutiny. This is driven by siloed and conflicting stakeholder demands and the growing influence of cloud computing. ITAM must be reimagined and modernised. It must take on a holistic, flexible approach with a focus on collaborative management and distributed decision making. This white paper serves to highlight the need for ITAM to evolve.
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    The M&S Cyberattack: How IT Asset Management Can Make or Break Your Recovery

    Marks & Spencer (M&S), the iconic UK retailer, recently became the latest high-profile victim of a devastating cyberattack. Fellow retailers The Co-Op and Harrods were also attacked. Recent reports suggest the rapid action at the Co-Op ...
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  • FinOps Guide for ITAM Managers

    Successfully bridging the gap between ITAM & FinOps will be a huge boost to ITAM teams within any organisation, and it will also bring demonstrable business benefits. To help ITAM Managers better understand and navigate FinOps, we've created this short, yet informative, guide.
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  • iQuate and Aspera Announce Partnership

    This is an interesting alliance between iQuate and Aspera. Irish tool vendor iQuate are making good inroads with their agentless discovery technology. German tool vendor Aspera have über-sophisticated license management technology but no dedicated inventory solution. ...
  • Preventing Vendor Audits: One Key Feature Missing From Most SAM Tools

    If organizations are to escape the painful cycle of firefighting against software audits and progress towards fully-fledged software asset management the focus needs to be on managing and acting on exceptions. That is, identifying where leakages ...
  • Dilbert: Software Services Contract

  • Inventory on Steroids

    I have written recently about inventory becoming a commoditized item. One of the limitations of inventory is that there is only so much detail you can collect about hardware and executables. The market appears to be ...
  • BDNA Splits with PS'Soft

    BDNA has sold PS’Soft to the Allen Systems Group (ASG) for an undisclosed sum. The PR blurb says. “The PS’Soft ITSM suite includes a Service Desk with incident, problem, change, configuration, release, service level and availability ...
  • Dilbert: Software License and It Will Never Work Video

    Hat tip to Kacey.
  • The Best SAM Tools - What To Look For

    This article was originally posted in 2011. We’d love your feedback on what’s changed, is this article even relevant any more? Let us know in the comments section below. If you would like to hear more ...
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    Market Synopsis: Enterprise SAM Tools

    The chart below represents a high level summary of how vendors are currently scored within the ‘TOOLS INTELLIGENCE’ service from The ITAM Review. Vendors have been assessed against our ‘Enterprise SAM’ criteria. The summary for ‘Mid-Market ...
  • Software Identification Summit

    WHAT TagVault Software Identification Summit – Agenda The summit is designed to bring the various software ecosystems members together to develop solutions to the persistent and expensive problem of software identification. Fundamental changes to existing processes ...
  • Fake LicenceDashboard Testimonial

    I recently received the following spammy comment on The ITAM Review. “…We are a graphic design company and use software like Photoshop. We’ve found that Licence Dashboard means we never forget to renew our licences! We ...

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