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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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- AI in ITAM: Insightful Signals from the Front Line
  
  During our Wisdom Unplugged USA event in New York in March 2025, we engaged ITAM professionals with three targeted polling ...
- How ISO/IEC 19770-1 Can Help Meet FFIEC Requirements
  
  In the world of ITAM, the regulatory spotlight continues to intensify, especially for financial institutions facing increasing scrutiny from regulatory ...
- An Introduction to Scope 4 Emissions
  
  Executive Summary For ITAM teams, sustainability is a core responsibility and opportunity. Managing hardware, software, and cloud resources now comes ...
How to win at job interviews

We sit down with Damian Harris, Global Talent Acquisition Manager at ITAM Review Careers, to get some tips for smashing it in your next interview.

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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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- AI in ITAM: Insightful Signals from the Front Line
  
  During our Wisdom Unplugged USA event in New York in March 2025, we engaged ITAM professionals with three targeted polling ...
- How ISO/IEC 19770-1 Can Help Meet FFIEC Requirements
  
  In the world of ITAM, the regulatory spotlight continues to intensify, especially for financial institutions facing increasing scrutiny from regulatory ...
- An Introduction to Scope 4 Emissions
  
  Executive Summary For ITAM teams, sustainability is a core responsibility and opportunity. Managing hardware, software, and cloud resources now comes ...
The Software Licensing of Robots

Robots are increasingly present in our day-to-day lives. If you thought licensing servers was difficult, imagine licensing devices of higher complexity that walk around and interact with the virtual and the physical world.

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Forewarned is forearmed. Get the latest news and advice on the ever-present challenge of software publisher audits here. Who is auditing right now? How and when should you respond to an audit? Stick here to stay informed on the latest audit trends, patterns and behaviours.

ITAMantics - April 2024

Welcome to the April 2024 edition of ITAMantics, our monthly news podcast where we discuss the biggest ITAM stories from the last month. George is joined this month by AJ Witt and Ryan Stefani. Stories tackled ...

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- ITAM & AI, FinOps, Containers, ESG, security: The many ways in which ITAM has matured beyond its roots
  
  ITAM, AI, FinOps, Containers, ESG, security… Back in January I wrote about my picks from the agenda for Wisdom NA ...
- Another Quest audit ends up in court
  
  A Quest Software audit is in court (again). Here I am, back with another story of a software vendor treating ...
- As some VMware products come to an end some customers face 1200% price rises
  
  As you may have seen, following the completion of the Broadcom acquisition, “VMware by Broadcom” are no longer offering perpetual ...
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Reviving Technology Management Careers: A Launchpad For Future Leaders

In this episode with Martin Thompson and Aamer Trambu (SoftwareOne) we delve into the critical role of relationship management in ITAM, emphasising its significance in fostering collaboration and facilitating change. They also discuss how embracing relationship ...

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- The Lifelong Learning Advantage: Cultivating a Growth Mindset in ITAM
  
  In this episode Kelly Yip and Meesha Nayan (TMG), delve into the importance of adopting a continuous learning mindset within ...
- Microsoft Visual Studio Licensing Guide: Reduce Risks
  
  (This article was reviewed and updated on 3 July 2025) Visual Studio Licensing Visual Studio subscriptions are licensed Per User ...
- 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 ...
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Podcast Episode 88: Looking into Containers

Containers are fast becoming a hot topic for many of us in ITAM. As DevOps practices, cloud, and digital transformation continue to expand within organisations, containers are being used more and more often – in a ...

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SamBox.io Review

SamBox.io Review SamBox.io from Elée provides online end-to-end software asset management for strategic software vendors. SAMBox.io Analyst Review Author. AJ Witt, The ITAM Review SamBox.io is an award-winning service from Elée providing an Effective License Position ...

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ServiceNow "Paris" & Hardware Asset Management

ServiceNow continue to expand their ITAM portfolio with the announcement of enhanced Hardware Asset Management capabilities, coming in their “Paris” release in September. Alongside this, SAM Pro customers will also see improvements to Oracle, SAP, & ...

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An introduction to Engineering software

This article – “An introduction to Engineering software” was written by Rich Gibbons, ITAM Review and Paul Empringham, European Sales Director, TeamEDA. What are Engineering Tools? A class of software exists in many companies that collectively ...

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Eracent IT Management Center (ITMC)

The ITMC™ suite provides comprehensive ITAM and SAM functionality to manage the full lifecycle for all IT assets, software licenses and subscriptions. ITMC users gain full visibility into their complete environment, and they benefit from cost ...

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USU Software Asset Management

USU Software Asset Management USU Software Asset Management (formerly Aspera SmartTrack) is the strategic solution for managing your software licenses and cloud services. For almost two decades, USU Software Asset Management has found up to ...

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Sassafras K2 Review

Jaime K, Education USA, 8th December 2016 Customer Service 100% Value for Money 90% Customer Support 100% Net promoter score 100% Overall Satisfaction 100% Strengths Works on Mac and Windows. The company is extremely responsive and ...

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USU Software Asset Management for SAP

USU Software Asset Management for SAP Certification Report Assessment The assessment below outlines how USU Software Asset Management for SAP® Software meets the criteria for the ITAM Review SAP License Management standard. General Observations – Aspera ...

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Snow Optimizer for SAP Software

Robin Olofsson, Retail Sweden, 13 May 2016 Customer Service 80% Value for Money 100% Customer Support 80% Net promoter score 80% Overall Satisfaction 60% Strengths Easy to use, integrated in our SAP environment Weaknesses Need of ...

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