SAM Tool Support
At the ITAM Review, we are often giving our readers and fellow ITAM professionals advice on what to look out for when picking a SAM ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: June 23, 2015
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.
SAM – What can be automated & what needs to stay manual?
Here at the ITAM Review we are always being asked about how organisations can make their ITAM function more proactive and efficient. One of the ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: June 18, 2015
Event Listing: SAM Skills Workshop, 14th July, London
SAM Skills Workshop Synopsis: The SAM Skills workshop is a free to attend, joint event brought to you by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: June 9, 2015
Cybersecurity and unused Software
This article has been contributed by Peter Beruk of 1E. Back in late 2013, David Bicket, former convener of Working Group 21 (WG21) for the ... Read more
Written by: Guest Contributor
Published on: June 8, 2015
Prioritising your Software Licensing Risks
Introduction All organisations face risks with their software licenses. Some enterprise organisations will have hundreds of thousands of different applications and thousands of different software ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: June 4, 2015
The Increased Interest In SAM
Introduction Over the past ten years or so, software asset management (SAM) has seen a large increase in demand and interest in its services. SAM ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: May 29, 2015
The ITAM Review 12 Box Assessment Model
We’ve completed a number of SAM maturity assessments for end user organisations over the last few years. Companies typically want an external and independent perspective ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: May 26, 2015
End User Review – Accurate Data Problems
Welcome to the first in our series for our new feature – The End User Review. We have had a number of entries for this ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: May 22, 2015
Software Ownership: Who should ‘Own’ software licenses within an organisation?
Software license ownership is a common talking point within organisations. Who owns the license, or who has taken responsibility for ‘ownership’? It may be the ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: May 20, 2015
What happens when your Subscription License ends?
Subscription licensing is a hot topic within the SAM (software asset management) world at the moment, with a number of organisations dipping their toes into ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: May 18, 2015
A Grande Mentira de Compliance
Ao longo de quase duas décadas de vida profissional, não é raro encontrar momentos em que me questiono se o que ouvimos de nossos clientes ... Read more
Written by: André Rangel
Published on: May 14, 2015
SAM Tools are useless without people and processes!
It’s a fact. Tools are useless without people, just like a hammer is a pointless instrument without someone actually using it, and a chainsaw is extremely ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: May 7, 2015
IBM & SAP Seminar: IBM has over 143 License Metrics to manage, SAP has over 70!
On April 28th, 2015, we hosted an IBM and SAP seminar in London, with the aim of providing ITAM professionals a day full of IBM ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: May 5, 2015
Managing applications on Mobile Assets – Part 1
Introduction This is part 1 of 2 on managing applications on mobile assets. Part 2 is coming soon! Mobile assets are becoming more important due to ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: April 27, 2015
Study shows Crystal Reports, Visual Studio, AutoCad, Project and Visio most likely to be unused
As SAM pros we all hear about the value of identifying unused software. A recent study from 1E has examined the applications most likely to ... Read more
Written by: Martin Thompson
Published on: April 7, 2015
Why The Customer Is Always Wrong (In Software License Reviews)
Given the massive shift the IT world is currently experiencing towards more service-focused delivery of all compute resources, it should come as no surprise to ... Read more
Written by: Adrian Bridgwater
Published on: April 5, 2015
Proactive SAM vs. Auditors
One of the most asked questions that we, at The ITAM Review, get asked is “How can I prevent being audited?”. The answer is always ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: March 27, 2015
Secret Diary of an IT Manager – The Importance of Managing Hardware Assets
We recently spoke about free ITAM tools, gathering all of our software licenses and starting physical software audits. That was back in October, and 5 ... Read more
Written by: The Secret IT Manager
Published on: March 24, 2015
Introduction to Software Asset Management [Video]
One of the main aspects of IT Asset Management, also known as ITAM is Software Asset Management (SAM), has seen a large increase in demand ... Read more
Written by: David Foxen
Published on: March 17, 2015
we.CONECT SAMS 2015 Conference Review
I attended the we.CONECT SAMS 2015 DACH conference held at the Proarte Maritim Hotel in Berlin, Germany from the 23rd-24 February 2015. A German only ... Read more
Written by: Glenn Thompson
Published on: March 13, 2015