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.

Best Practice Posts

  • Are ITAM tools vendors focusing too much on the next big thing (e.g. FinOps) at the expense of core SAM functionality? 

    Are ITAM tools vendors focusing too much on the next big thing (e.g. FinOps) at the expense of core SAM functionality? 

    Are ITAM tools vendors suffering from Shiny Penny Syndrome? With all the hype around big trends like FinOps and sustainability, can you blame software vendors for seeking to align their products with the latest trend? Are ...
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  • Five Steps to optimise SaaS costs and deliver rapid savings

    Five Steps to optimise SaaS costs and deliver rapid savings

    In this new white paper by AJ Witt and Zluri we look at how organisations can optimise their SaaS costs in light of the significant increases in software prices during 2022/2023 and the continuing challenging economic ...
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  • ITAMantics podcast - August 2023

    ITAMantics podcast - August 2023

    Welcome to the August edition of ITAMantics, our monthly news podcast where we discuss the biggest ITAM stories. We may be in the middle of summer, but there are still ITAM stories to discuss. In this ...
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  • Hybrid FinOps: Uniting ITAM and FinOps teams

    Hybrid FinOps: Uniting ITAM and FinOps teams

    FinOps – it’s a term that we all seem to be a click or two away from across the internet. With most organizations facing tightened or at least much more scrutinized IT budgets given the economic ...
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  • Selecting the Right ITAM Tool and Service Provider

    Selecting the Right ITAM Tool and Service Provider

    The following article by James Bell, senior ITAM consultant at License Dashboard, explores the merits of taking a hybrid approach to your SAM programme by combining an ITAM tool/SAM tool with third-party support. Introduction As businesses ...
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  • Strategies for organizations to balance data and hardware security needs

    Strategies for organizations to balance data and hardware security needs

    By Chris Greene, Vice President of Strategy and Solutions for Iron Mountain‘s Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) business Three years have passed since the start of the pandemic and many people’s working lives have not been the ...
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  • Tips to combat the impact of inflation on IT contracts

    Tips to combat the impact of inflation on IT contracts

    This guest article was contributed by Harinder Bansal, Head of IT Procurement, Motability Operations Ltd. This is article is split into 3 bitesize chunks. Overview of Inflation. The International Monetary Fund defines inflation as ‘The rate of increase ...
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  • Can you sue your software vendor? Interview with Pam Fulmer, Technology Litigator at Tactical Law Group LLP

    Can you sue your software vendor? Interview with Pam Fulmer, Technology Litigator at Tactical Law Group LLP

    When confronted with a software audit and the pain and stress that goes with it, I’m sure many of you have wished the shoe was on the other foot. If only there was a way to ...
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  • Discussing FinOps with Flexera’s Cloud Lead

    Discussing FinOps with Flexera’s Cloud Lead

    This week we spoke with Jeremy Chaplin, Cloud lead at Flexera about the ins and outs of FinOps and its interactions with ITAM. But you’ve probably never heard of FinOps before, right…? Clearly, I’m joking. EVERYONE ...
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