ITAM News & Analysis

  • Disruption comes in threes: ITAM Insights Report 2023

    Disruption comes in threes: ITAM Insights Report 2023

    Double-digit software price rises, “license gouging” and vendor M&A activity creates uncertainty for CIOs and ITAM in 2023 Rich’s keynote at Wisdom EMEA 2023 this morning focused on the “Stories that shook the ITAM world.” To ...
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  • 35% of businesses looking to cut IT costs in 2023: Interview with Hayley Mooney, Crayon

    35% of businesses looking to cut IT costs in 2023: Interview with Hayley Mooney, Crayon

    According to a new report from Crayon, 90% of businesses cite IT cost optimisation as a high priority right now, with 35% either actively assessing their IT spend or looking to cut it. The ITAM Review ...
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  • Influencing ITAM stakeholders: Great examples from the audience at Wisdom EMEA 2023

    Influencing ITAM stakeholders: Great examples from the audience at Wisdom EMEA 2023

    Wisdom EMEA 2023 kicked off with a fascinating talk from Rob Geraghty about influencing ITAM stakeholders. The founder of Presenting Virtually discussed how to create more buy-in for your ITAM programme. He opened with this question. ...
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  • IBM acquire Apptio for $4.6 billion

    IBM acquire Apptio for $4.6 billion

    IBM have confirmed their intention to acquire Apptio for $4.6 billion, a sum which represents a 150% return for current owners, Vista Equity Partners (you may remember Vista Equity Partners also purchased Citrix in February 2022). ...
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  • Europeans paying 20%+ “cloud tax” according to CISPE report 

    Europeans paying 20%+ “cloud tax” according to CISPE report 

    A new report by CISPE has sought to quantify the additional cost or “tax” of running enterprise software outside of the vendor’s own cloud infrastructure. Professor Frédéric Jenny, the author of the report, cites a premium ...
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  • Would you get a SAM tattoo?

    Would you get a SAM tattoo?

    A few weeks ago Rich stumbled upon this LinkedIn post and video by Jitendra Desale, Software Asset Manager at RealPage Inc.. Click here to read the full LinkedIn post Is this the most amazing / unexpected ...
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  • ITAMantics: New monthly podcast

    ITAMantics: New monthly podcast

    Welcome to ITAMantics – the first of a new monthly podcast where we review the biggest news stories of the last month. This month Rich, AJ and George discuss the following. Listen to the full ITAMantics ...
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  • Wanna win big in Vegas? Upcoming ITAM + FinOps event

    Wanna win big in Vegas? Upcoming ITAM + FinOps event

    We are pleased to announce a brand new FinOps event from the ITAM Review. “ITAM + FinOps. How to win big,” is a new, one-day conference taking place on Tuesday, September 12th at the Park MGM, ...
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  • Zluri Raises $20 Million

    Zluri Raises $20 Million

    The SaaS management company Zluri has announced a $20 million Series B funding raise. Zluri tools enable IT managers to keep track of their organisation’s SaaS usage, monitoring who in the business has access to which ...
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