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.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 (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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This article has been put together to help shape AJ Witt’s session at the 2018 UK Conference – I never learned anything from a win. ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: May 1, 2018
This article has been contributed by Mark van Wolferen of b.lay. The SAM tool market is growing, but not as much as expected, according to ... Read more
Written by: Mark van Wolferen
Published on: April 23, 2018
Gartner this week published their first ever research into the SAM Tools marketplace and the results are a mix of surprises and expectations. It is ... Read more
Written by: AJ Witt
Published on: April 20, 2018