Best Practice Posts
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Case Study: Argos Audit Defence Strategies & ITAM industry collaboration
Argos Audit Defence. In this video Danny Begg, SAM technical specialist at Argos, shares his approach to defending and managing software audit requests. Danny also makes the case for more collaboration and networking amongst ITAM industry ... -
Ending the vendor audit cycle
This article has been contributed by Walker White of BDNA. Ending the vendor audit cycle Vendor software and hardware audits have become so common in the enterprise IT landscape that they are beginning to be accepted ... -
ISO/IEC 19770-3 Quick Guide; leveraging -3 tags in contract negotiations
In this podcast I speak with Jason Keogh of 1E, Editor of the ISO/IEC 19770-3 Standard to give us an update on -3. The new standard was published in April 2016, so what does it mean ... -
What stops organizations from executing effective Software Asset Management?
If your organization is running an in-house Software Asset Management program, the chances are your SAM team can boil their activity down to one thing. Compliance. Ensuring your organization isn’t under-licensed (and therefore risking blowing ... -
Can you resell software licenses? The latest legal position in 2016
This is a guest post from Robin Fry of Cerno. The European Court has restated the legality of the resale of software in Europe in its latest judgment but confirmed that the principle does not extend ... -
Leveraging the power of ITAM data beyond the ITAM department
Our latest module in the 12 Box Training course series covered Stakeholders, and in particular, “How to use ITAM asset data to support major IT transformation projects”. Why bother working with Stakeholders? Throughout the course we’ve ... -
Internet connected cameras used in cyber attack – are IoT assets on your radar yet?
The BBC reports that hackers used Internet connected devices last week to perform a denial of service attack that brought down Internet brands Twitter, Spotify and Reddit. Forbes suggests that the main culprit appears to be ... -
Quick Guide to ITAM CSI
This article provides a quick introduction to ITAM CSI and the value it brings in maintaining momentum in your ITAM practice. We cover CSI in module 9. REPORTING, of the ITAM Review 12 Box Training Course. ... -
Podcast Episode 25: Data quality, toasters and the internet of things
In this podcast I’m joined by Mike Jones at Airtrack and Dave Bowser at Raynet. We discuss the role of data quality in ITAM and the potential increase in scope for the ITAM market as more ...