IaaS Management – ITAM Review Market Guide
Here is the second of the ITAM Review Market Guides – this time looking at tools and services to help manage IaaS (Infrastructure as a ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: August 31, 2018
Best Practice
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.
Authorised Software install costs Maersk $300m
At our UK Conference I called for SAM teams to forge strong ties with their colleagues in IT Security and Compliance. My session highlighted how ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: August 31, 2018
SaaS Application Management – should risk be prioritised over cost?
As Software Asset Managers we are used to managing both risk and cost. Whilst the two go hand in hand when managing perpetually licensed software ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: August 23, 2018
Formulas for Financial Justification of Your ITAM Project
This article has been contributed by Mark O’Connell a Senior Principal Consultant with Siwel As an experienced SAM Manager in a new organization you’ll know how much you’re ... Read more
Written by: Mark O’Connell
Published on: August 21, 2018
5 STAGES OF ITAM ACCEPTANCE
Emotion. It’s a strong word with even stronger consequences. It’s something that organisations do not focus enough time and efforts on managing or listening to, ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: August 14, 2018
Microsoft 2019 servers – on-premises lives on!
Microsoft have released the first public previews of their next generation of on-premises Office server products – that is: Exchange Server 2019 SharePoint Server 2019 ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: July 26, 2018
Introducing – ITAM Review SaaS Market Guide
The ITAM Review are delighted to announce the publication of a Market Guide for SaaS Optimisation & Subscription Management tools. This is the first in ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 26, 2018
Bring your own? A guide to deploying perpetual licenses in cloud services
As software vendors seek to migrate customers to subscription-based offerings one tactic they use is to enable currently-owned perpetual licenses to be used in cloud ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 19, 2018
Microsoft free server 2008 support – at a cost?
SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 will go out of support in July 2019 and January 2020 respectively. Many organisations across the globe are ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: July 19, 2018
Ticketmaster data breach – “it wasn’t me”
The recent Ticketmaster breach is perhaps the first large-scale breach in our brave new GDPR-regulated world, and it warrants further analysis. As the dust has ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 10, 2018
Single Sign On – why it’s important for SaaS Subscription Management
Single Sign On (SSO) provides a quick and secure way to log in to multiple services using a single username and password. Perhaps surprisingly, it ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 4, 2018
Get Me In – to your personal information
Ticketmaster UK recently announced that customer credit card and personal data had been compromised. This was due to a security breach at their third-party customer ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: July 3, 2018
Nike hit back at Quest
We saw a few weeks ago that Quest Software have taken Nike to court over their refusal to settle up for license non-compliance discovered during ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: June 21, 2018
SaaS Applications – solving the Inventory & Discovery challenge
Baseline SAM is about reconciling what you own against what you’re using. ITAM tool vendors have mastered this for software installed on devices ranging from ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: June 7, 2018
Call for participants – ITAM Review researches the growing SaaS Management Market
SaaS Management is the process by which ITAM techniques are used to discover, track, control, and optimise subscriptions made to Software-as-a-Service applications. Most ITAM tool ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: May 31, 2018
Just Do It – not a good SAM strategy
Quest Software are suing Nike, according to court documents filed on April 24, 2018. This is another case of an audit shortfall dispute making its ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: May 24, 2018
How to reduce software maintenance costs in line with reduced consumption
In the lead up to our 2018 UK Conference, owner and founder of The ITAM Review – Martin Thompson posed the following question to our Conference Sponsor ... Read more
Written by: Victoria Kealy
Published on: May 15, 2018
Microsoft Server Subscriptions for Azure
Added into the May 2018 Microsoft Product Terms, we have Server Subscriptions for Azure AKA on-premises software via the CSP (Cloud Solution Provider) program. What ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: May 8, 2018
ServiceNow & Flexera go shopping for SaaS tools, who’s next?
Following ServiceNow’s acquisition of VendorHawk in late April Flexera have followed suit with their acquisition this week of Meta SaaS. Clearly this is a market ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: May 3, 2018
How not to engage in a Microsoft Audit
Microsoft are suing Community Health Systems (CHS), a Fortune 500 company based in Franklin, Tennessee, USA, for alleged copyright infringement and breach of contract. What’s ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: May 3, 2018