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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.
Amazon AWS

Best PracticeSAM

Quick guide to managing Amazon AWS costs

In a recent straw poll of ITAM Review readers it was found that only 27% of organisations have some form of portal or automated provisioning ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: January 15, 2018

Best PracticeSAM

Jochen Hagenlocher: SAM’s impact in 2018

This article has been contributed by Jochen Hagenlocher, Head of SAM at a Fortune 100 Company, ITAM Review Professional of the year 2016, ISO/IEC 19770 ... Read more

Written by: Guest Contributor

Published on: January 9, 2018

Hardware Asset Management

Best PracticeHAM

Hardware Asset Management (HAM) Best Practice Survey

Hardware Asset Management (HAM) Best Practice Survey Following on from the recently published study into Hard Drive Disposal, I would now really appreciate your support ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: December 7, 2017

Best Practice

Business planning and reporting are the weakest ITAM disciplines

We’ve just had our 200th organization go through our online 12 Box Maturity Assessment – so I thought I’d share the average scores across the ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: November 21, 2017

Best PracticeSAM

SAP License Management Certification: Snow Optimizer for SAP Software v2.0

Executive Summary The ITAM Review, an independent community for worldwide ITAM, SAM and Software Licensing professionals, has certified Snow Optimizer for SAP Software v2.0 as ... Read more

Written by: Karen McAllen

Published on: October 24, 2017

Best Practice

Colin Simmons, Kingfisher Plc: “Working with Teams and Stakeholders”

In this video, Colin Simmons, IT Asset Manager of Kingfisher IT Services speaks about the ITAM Teams and Stakeholders and describes the relationship between the ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: October 4, 2017

Best PracticeSAM

Invested in SAM but still failing? – How to forecast and manage future asset demand

License Demand Management Have you invested in SAM infrastructure, spent time persuading processes to stick and hired an awesome team; only for compliance issues to ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: September 24, 2017

Network Licensing

Best PracticeSAM

Quick guide to Network Licensing and Software Defined Networking

Networking has seen a dramatic shift from hardware to software defined networking. I asked Tom Nallen, President of Network Licensing Strategies, to give us the ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: September 12, 2017

Best PracticeSAM

Competition heats up in SAM Managed Services market; SoftwareONE makes aggressive play for mid-market

Competition in the SAM Managed Services market went up a few degrees this week when the software and services provider SoftwareONE made an aggressive play ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: August 22, 2017

IT Security

Best PracticeSecurity

NotPetya, Wannacry and GDPR: How ITAM can support IT Security teams

New Cyber Security threats and European legislation are a great way for ITAM to revisit links with the security team and strengthen the importance of ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: August 11, 2017

Microsoft SAM Partner of the Year

Best PracticeSAM

Compliance and cost savings are table stakes; modern SAM partners should help customers drive innovation

“Compliance and cost savings are table stakes; modern SAM partners should help customers drive innovation.” This was the claim made by Stewart McLuskey, Director of ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: August 8, 2017

audit clauses

Best Practice

The danger of signing audit clauses when measurement is not defined

In this video, Geoff Worsely, SAM Enterprise Architect of Aspera shares his advice when entering into Software Agreements as they may not be as transparent ... Read more

Written by: Victoria Kealy

Published on: July 25, 2017

Best PracticeSAM

Review: Raynet RayVentory (Inventory and Discovery)

This review provides an overview of the Raynet RayVentory Tool, its competitive strengths and weaknesses and a short analysis. At a Glance RayVentory is a versatile ... Read more

Written by: Victoria Kealy

Published on: July 25, 2017

Best PracticeSAM

SAM Managed Services Provider Standard V1.0

In 2013 and 2015 we’ve conducted group tests based on competitive comparisons of SAM Managed Services providers. You can see the previous research here: 2013: ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: July 18, 2017

Best PracticeSAM

SAP user and indirect access reconciliation process

This article suggests a four-step process for managing SAP users and indirect access. It is a mixture of feedback from our SIG calls on SAP ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: July 13, 2017

Best PracticeSAM

Office 365 cost optimisation – is it worth it?

Squeezing best value from Office365 requires a change of thinking from the old world of perpetual device based office: Old School Perpetual device based office: ... Read more

Written by: Martin Thompson

Published on: July 10, 2017

Best PracticeSAM

WannaCry? Time to dry your tears and act!

This article has been contributed by Gilles Auchere, Business Development at Econocom and Board Director at Free ICT Europe. The unprecedented ransomware attack that started on ... Read more

Written by: Guest Contributor

Published on: May 19, 2017

Best PracticeIaaS Management

ITAM in the Cloud Era

In the lead up to our global Conferences, owner and founder of The ITAM Review – Martin Thompson posed the following discussion points to our ... Read more

Written by: Victoria Kealy

Published on: May 17, 2017

Best PracticeSAM

License compliance a headache? Cloud could make it worse.

As IT and procurement communities are being surrounded by an army of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS sales teams, a potentially dangerous sentiment has grown that ... Read more

Written by: Guest Contributor

Published on: May 11, 2017

Best Practice

How to Prepare for the Future of IT Asset Management

The Internet of Things revolution is fundamentally transforming businesses. The massive influx of IoT devices (all of which are basically computers) will save time and ... Read more

Written by: Guest Contributor

Published on: May 10, 2017

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