Great news for the SAM Industry this week. Software giant Microsoft has announced adoption of ISO/IEC 19770-2 software identification tags. Heather Young, Global Manager, SAM Services and Partners, Microsoft Corporation states. “We are pleased to announce ...
The reseller market has felt a few shockwaves recently after Bytes Software and Nettitude were jointly linked to a fraudulent conspiracy worth £123,000 perpetrated by Lincolnshire-based grocery co-operative Nisa Today. Nisa employee Trevor Guerin reportedly snitched and filched ...
If you’ve been assigned responsibility for sorting out that prickly mess called software, you might be asking yourself – Holy moley! Where do I start? If you are a newcomer to managing software, may I offer ...
Microsoft Licensing and Software Piracy made the evening news here in the UK this week. In a nutshell, Comet, a major UK high street retailer, wanted to continue to provide their customers with recovery disks after ...
After nearly two decades of Gartner IT Financial, Procurement and Asset Management Summits in the US, Gartner have brought the format to EMEA. The first EMEA Gartner IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit will be held in ...
This is a Japanese version of the article “The Best SAM Tools – What to Look For“. 以下のリストを私は、 「競争差別化要因」 と呼んでいます。 競争差別化要因とは、 特定のSAM ツール メーカーが持つ差別化のため研究開発された特有の機能です。もちろん、ツール市場の大半のメーカーがこれらの機能を提供するようになれば、差別化要因ではなくなってしまいます。 SAMツールのメーカーの違いを見出す方法としてだけでなく、特定のツールメーカーの開発の焦点がどこに当てられているかの指標となります。 思えば… 私が、SAM ツールを 2000年に販売していたころは、焦点はインベントリ収集でした (どのような資産を所有しているか?)。それから、ソフトウェア認識の開発の時期を経て (ネットワーク上に winword.exe を見つけたが、そのファイルは何だ?)、さらに焦点は、ビジネス インテリジェンスへと (winword.exe ファイルは、Microsoft ...
This article was originally posted in 2011. We’d love your feedback on what’s changed, is this article even relevant any more? Let us know in the comments section below. If you would like to hear more ...
Jeff Jones of Flexera Software is a licensing expert focused on enterprise license optimization and compliance. Having spent 12+ years at Oracle, he is one of Flexera’s key product experts and advisors for Oracle. He also ...
I have been travelling the length and breadth of the UK over the last couple of weeks meeting with clients and attending events. Idle time on trains during this period got me thinking about what the ...
On a recent webinar a vendor stated. “We have the most advanced software recognition in the market”. This was something I was guilty of quoting when I used to sell tools. A grand statement with no ...