SAM Technologies have become a must, not a ‘nice to have’
I remember when I first started in the SAM industry and was looking to implement a SAM tool that at the time a number of professionals and IT staff told me that they were ‘nice … Read more
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Event Listing – SAM Conference Paris 2015
We are pleased to be supporting a new SAM event in France in conjunction with several SAM Experts, French customers, EasyTrust and Aspera: SAM Conference Paris 2015 On 15th October Martin Thompson from The ITAM Review will provide … Read more
Perpetual License Management in a Subscription World
As we are all aware, the software licensing market is shifting towards a new model, a new way of doing things. This means a number of changes for SAM professionals, organisations and vendors. The biggest … Read more
Datacentre vs Desktop Savings
Making savings on software licenses are one of the key selling points for any organisations implementing SAM. Savings on software licenses can, in essence, pay for the implementation of SAM (including all of the … Read more
Salesforce.com Licensing Quick Guide 2015
Compared to the likes of Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Adobe, salesforce.com licensing is reasonably simple to understand and manage. With that said, there are still opportunities for salesforce.com customers to utilise their licenses and … Read more
Prioritising your Software Licensing Risks
Introduction All organisations face risks with their software licenses. Some enterprise organisations will have hundreds of thousands of different applications and thousands of different software vendors installed within their environment. It is therefore unrealistic to … Read more
Event Listing: FREE ITAM Review Microsoft Licensing Seminars in London & New York
Following the success of our previous datacentre events on Oracle and IBM & SAP, we are delighted to announce our upcoming Microsoft Licensing Seminars being held in London on 17th September, and in New York … Read more
Microsoft’s move to Subscription and SaaS
Microsoft were one of the first ‘mega vendors’ to move towards a subscription cloud modelling of licensing metrics. The introduction of Office 365 (O365 for the purpose of this article) took Microsoft software in a … Read more
Microsoft Licensing Seminars – Call for Speakers
Following on from the fantastic success of our Tools Day events, Oracle and IBM & SAP Seminars, The ITAM Review is compiling a roster of Microsoft licensing experts and industry insiders for our Microsoft Licensing … Read more
Challenges of Implementing SAM in India: Practical Road Map
This is a guest article contributed by Probuddho Halder, a SAM and Software Licensing expert based in India. Probuddho is a young and enthusiastic SAM professional. He likes to read and write about SAM and … Read more
End User Review – Accurate Data Problems
Welcome to the first in our series for our new feature – The End User Review. We have had a number of entries for this feature, so thank you very much to everyone that has … Read more
SAM in the Oracle Environment: Hitting a Moving Target for a Compliance Bulls Eye
By Christof Beaupoil, President and Co-Founder of Aspera Technologies Inc. When it comes to Oracle licensing, the universal question is: Why do they make it so hard? The answer is simple: Because they can. IT … Read more
Audits are getting out of hand
In this video: What I learnt at the IBM & SAP Seminar in London last week The state of audits in the software industry An update on Campaign for Clear Licensing activity Support the Campaign … Read more
How IBM customers get caught out with licensing
Eric Chiu of HW Fisher tells us how IBM customers get caught out with IBM licensing and audits, the recent changes to IBM’s passport advantage impacting customers and a preview of his upcoming sessions … Read more
March ITAM News Roundup
News Amazon Cloud to offer unlimited cloud storage (Computer Weekly) – Who doesn’t like unlimited stuff? Even if it is unlimited cloud storage which-you-don’t-even-know-where-your-documents-are-stored! Computer Weekly are reporting that Amazon are to offer unlimited cloud … Read more
Why The Customer Is Always Wrong (In Software License Reviews)
Given the massive shift the IT world is currently experiencing towards more service-focused delivery of all compute resources, it should come as no surprise to find money and profitability channels being openly analysed at this … Read more
February News Roundup
News Forever 21 accused of pirating Adobe software – It was reported in February that fashion retailer Forever 21 have been knowingly pirating copies of Adobe software. According to Adobe, they even told Forever 21 … Read more
IBM Licensing Quick Guide (2015)
When you discuss the most complex licensing vendors, the usual names crop up. Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and IBM. IBM is one of the largest software vendors in the world with one of the most complicated … Read more
IBM to accept Flexera for sub-capacity reporting (instead of ILMT)
IBM is to accept sub-capacity reporting from Flexera Software’s FlexNet Manager in place of ILMT, TADd and SUA. Whilst we’ve heard of this being acceptable on a deal by deal basis in the past, this … Read more
Let’s meet in 2015, ITAM Review Spring Events Schedule
I am pleased to share our events calendar for Spring 2015. Unfortunately our week of events planned for New York were cancelled due to the ‘January 2015 nor’easter’ – these have all been rescheduled for May. … Read more