The ITAM Review are delighted to announce the publication of a Market Guide for SaaS Optimisation & Subscription Management tools. This is the first in a series of Market Guides, to be published monthly, looking … Read more
I’m pleased to announce that our IBM Licensing Essentials training course is now live and available to LISA subscribers. LISA is our on-demand online training from The ITAM Review. The IBM Licensing Essentials training course … Read more
Oracle Corporation have long been famous for their database software, and their often tricky, sometimes flummoxing, usually expensive, licensing rules – and the audits that go with them. IT Asset Managers worldwide have struggled, often … Read more
In the lead up to our 2018 UK Conference, owner and founder of The ITAM Review – Martin Thompson posed the following question to our Conference Sponsor experts: ‘Software vendors commonly increase pricing when customers remove SKUS … Read more
This article has been put together to help shape AJ Witt’s session at the 2018 UK Conference – I never learned anything from a win. Share your epic ITAM failures and help shape the session. … Read more
This article has been contributed by Mark van Wolferen of b.lay. The SAM tool market is growing, but not as much as expected, according to Martin Thompson’s article. Whether this slow growth is caused by … Read more
Microsoft, SAP, SUSE, Cisco, CA, and HPE have joined an initiative to help combat open source licensing difficulties; reducing the penalties forinadvertent non-compliance with open source license terms. What’s it all about? The GNU General … Read more
The Microsoft Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server (formerly Windows Server Azure Hybrid Use Benefit) has been around for some time now. It was announced in late 2017 that this benefit would be extended to … Read more
We’re pleased to announce that our LISA training platform has a new addition – Oracle licensing training. In conjunction with long-time ITAM Review collaborator – and internationally renowned Oracle consultant – Richard Spithoven of B-Lay, … Read more
What is a Red Hat Subscription? A Red Hat Subscription provides the following: Access to the Software as well as access to updates, upgrades, corrections, security advisories and bug fixes for the Software (if and … Read more
2017 – the year SAP starting suing its customers, cloud optimisation goes mainstream and end users starting biting back against software vendors. Here is what you were reading in 2017, crowdsourced favourites from ITAM Review … Read more
We’ve just had our 200th organization go through our online 12 Box Maturity Assessment – so I thought I’d share the average scores across the 12 competency areas. Introduction The 12 Box Model from the … Read more
I spoke with Christoph Harvey, CEO of Deskcenter AG at Microsoft’s Inspire Conference in the summer. In this article Christoph shares his views on Microsoft’s SAM announcements (see video below) and provides an introduction to … Read more
Competition in the SAM Managed Services market went up a few degrees this week when the software and services provider SoftwareONE made an aggressive play at market share in the mid-market with the launch of … Read more
In 2013 and 2015 we’ve conducted group tests based on competitive comparisons of SAM Managed Services providers. You can see the previous research here: 2013: https://itassetmanagement.net/2014/01/27/sam-msp-group-test-results/ 2015: https://itassetmanagement.net/2015/10/15/sam-msp-group-test-2015-results/ For 2017 we are developing this into … Read more
Squeezing best value from Office365 requires a change of thinking from the old world of perpetual device based office: Old School Perpetual device based office: Have we purchased enough copies? (compliance) Are we using it … Read more
As IT and procurement communities are being surrounded by an army of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS sales teams, a potentially dangerous sentiment has grown that by shifting apps elsewhere and/or by paying subscription instead of … Read more
The Internet of Things revolution is fundamentally transforming businesses. The massive influx of IoT devices (all of which are basically computers) will save time and money and provide better value to customers, employees and other … Read more
You are cordially invited to join an end user only conference call for ITAM Review readers on Tuesday 23rd May 2pm-3pm UK BST. This is an online conference call, for UK based readers please also see … Read more
You are cordially invited to join an end user round-table in central London on Tuesday 16th May. This is for end user organizations only. The Chatham house rule applies. Suggested agenda items (provided by the … Read more