ITAM News & Analysis

This page combines news with our analysis of issues affecting the ITAM industry, including software publisher stories, ITAM/SAM tools developments and launches, mergers & acquisitions and any other IT news which is pertinent for the ITAM professional to know about.
  • Gartner European SAM Briefings - "Don't Leave the Job Half Done"

    WHAT Gartner Local SAM Briefings in London, Oslo and Stockholm; “Don’t Leave the Job Half Done – Support Strategic IT Procurement with Vendor Management and Software Asset Management” Summary. Software Asset Management is critical to maximizing ...
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  • 1E Launches SCCM Plugin to Target Software Waste

    You might know 1E for their NightWatchman brand, famous for switching off PCs at night when they are not in use and saving energy. 1E boasts some 16 million licenses across 1400 customers and the company ...
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  • Introducing Kylie Fowler

    I am pleased to announce that Kylie Fowler will be a contributing a regular column to the ITAM review, offering insights from her extensive experience ‘at the coal face’ of ITAM. Kylie is the author of ...
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  • iQuate and Aspera Announce Partnership

    This is an interesting alliance between iQuate and Aspera. Irish tool vendor iQuate are making good inroads with their agentless discovery technology. German tool vendor Aspera have über-sophisticated license management technology but no dedicated inventory solution. ...
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  • Preventing Vendor Audits: One Key Feature Missing From Most SAM Tools

    If organizations are to escape the painful cycle of firefighting against software audits and progress towards fully-fledged software asset management the focus needs to be on managing and acting on exceptions. That is, identifying where leakages ...
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  • Dilbert: Software Services Contract

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  • Inventory on Steroids

    I have written recently about inventory becoming a commoditized item. One of the limitations of inventory is that there is only so much detail you can collect about hardware and executables. The market appears to be ...
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  • BDNA Splits with PS'Soft

    BDNA has sold PS’Soft to the Allen Systems Group (ASG) for an undisclosed sum. The PR blurb says. “The PS’Soft ITSM suite includes a Service Desk with incident, problem, change, configuration, release, service level and availability ...
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  • Dilbert: Software License and It Will Never Work Video

    Hat tip to Kacey.
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