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.
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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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  • 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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  • Now is the time to think about ITAD

    Now is the time to think about ITAD

    This post was contributed by Sarah Davies. Over the last 2 months or so, many companies have undertaken large purchases and deployments of equipment to enable employees and students to effectively work from home. As lockdown ...
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  • Five Steps to Preserving Cashflow with effective SaaS Management

    Five Steps to Preserving Cashflow with effective SaaS Management

    This article, a collaboration between AJ Witt, SaaS Management Analyst, The ITAM Review &  Dusan Omercevic, Founder of Cleanshelf, provides practical advice on how managing SaaS expenditure can protect your organisation’s cashflow in a crisis such ...
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  • Setting realistic expectations is key to SAM tool success

    Setting realistic expectations is key to SAM tool success

    Software Asset Management (SAM) tools require significant investment and resource to achieve results. Preliminary results from a survey conducted by The ITAM Review suggests setting realistic expectations is key to SAM tool success. Investment in tools ...
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  • ITAM in complex environments: Containers

    ITAM in complex environments: Containers

    This article was written by Rich Gibbons, ITAM Review, and Heather McKay, Flexera. ITAM in complex environments is key. The rapidly shifting IT landscape contains several new technologies that all present both opportunities and challenges to ...
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  • Brexit & Secondary Software: What's the impact?

    Brexit & Secondary Software: What's the impact?

    This article was written by Rich Gibbons, ITAM Review, and Noel Unwin, Discount Licensing. Following the decision made by the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European Union (EU) on 31st January 2020, negotiations between the ...
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  • Cloud Cost Management: Where to start

    Cloud Cost Management: Where to start

    This article was written by Rich Gibbons, ITAM Review, and Heather McKay, Flexera. In the recent Flexera 2020 Digital Transformation Planning Report, 54% of organizations indicated Digital Transformation as a top priority. As organizations digitize to ...
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  • ITAM during a crisis: back to basics

    ITAM during a crisis: back to basics

    November 2008 Do you remember what you were doing in November 2008? Obama beat McCain to become America’s first black-American president (Yes we can). “Slumdog millionaire” and “Quantum of Solace” were in the cinema and Beyonce ...
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  • SaaS enables remote work during COVID-19

    SaaS enables remote work during COVID-19

    In this SaaS news roundup we explore the ways in which COVID-19 is affecting SaaS providers. We look at how it is enabling remote work, why you should be cautious when buying new services, and end ...
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  • Creating an ITAM clean-up action plan

    Creating an ITAM clean-up action plan

    Creating an ITAM clean-up action plan will mean that, after any major change – particularly one that’s unexpected – you will have a checklist of steps to methodically take stock of the situation. What must you ...
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